Toolbox - Assessment Tools

Below you will find a toolbox full of assessment tools. This is only a partial list of some of my favorites. If you have more that you would like to share, please let me know and I will add them as soon as possible. As always, if you have any questions, please let me know. 

Assessment Tools
	Google Forms Google Forms is an application that is included with the Google Apps for Education platform. Google Forms allows you to ask and collect answers. If you wish to have it autograde, Google Forms will do that. Google Forms is a strong tool to assess student growth and see data immediately. A step further: Google Forms partnered with the Flubaroo add-on will also grade and take things a little further. Read about the differences here.
	Edulastic Edulastic is a pretty cool tool, as it allows for more technology-driven assessment. Currently, Math and ELA have the strongest question types, but those same skills can be easily transferred to the other subjects as well. The power of this tool is that it allows for more tech-dependent and interactive questioning, such as labeling images, text correction, and many more. Learn some more here!
	Quizlet Quizlet is a flashcard tool that is used to design and share flashcards for students to study. While this is extremely helpful, the most powerful and fun tool to use is the Quizlet Live feature, which is a review game for the whole class. Using the game, you will have students that are teamed up and must answer a series of questions correctly while collaborating with their peers as only one player will have the correct answer. Try it out sometime, it is a blast to play!
	Kahoot! Kahoot! is an awesome and fun assessment game to play with your students. A Kahoot! is taking the trivia aspect and incorporating buzzers and allowing students to guess. The best part, all students have the opportunity to answer the questions. It is a race (if you want it to be) and will allow you to collect the data on who is doing well and who needs a little more practice. Kahoot! is powerful and fun to play! Check out this helpful video!
	Plickers Put the tech down! Don’t feel like using the computers for assessment, use Plickers or paper clickers. Students will be assigned a card and then the teacher will use a phone or tablet to record student answers in the form of QR codes. This is a fast, fun way for the students to answer questions, and as each QR code is different, you will really be getting true answers from students, as they will not be able to read the codes of other students. The best part, everything is free including the data!
	EDpuzzle Do your students have to watch a video? Do you want them to be accountable for their watching? EDpuzzle allows you to take videos and make changes to them, either as a voice over, with voice notes, or trim the video to get the length that you need. One of the coolest features of EDpuzzle is that you can require students to answer questions as they watch. Simply add questions and the students will have to answer them. Plus, EDpuzzle has near seamless integration with Google Classroom. Here is a helpful video!
	Pear Deck Pear Deck is a presentation tool, but also a tool that will allow you to assess your students. Pear Deck fully supports Google Classroom and Google Apps for Education, and allows students to participate as you work through class with them. You can ask questions and get feedback as you are teaching. This is an incredibly powerful activity to use in the classroom to actively check for understanding as you go. Pear Deck will only allow the free accounts do ask certain styles of questions and will only allow 30 students per session.
	Nearpod Nearpod is a lot like Pear Deck, as it is also a presentation tool. This allows you to create and ask questions using their platform. Embedding quizzes into your discussions can help solidify learning and provide you with much insight into what is working and what is not working in your classroom. Nearpod is also a Freemium service that allows for only a set number of users at a time, but Nearpod also sells content for you to use in your classroom.
	Poll Everywhere Poll Everywhere is a service where you can poll your class during the session and they can respond. You can use this for quizzes, open responses, and other styles of questions to check for understanding or get the feeling of the class on a topic. This is helpful and can be useful in many circumstances.
	Formative Formative (formerly Go Formative) is a free assessment tool that allows for you to create quizzes and activities for your students to create or import items that you have already created. Add different content and ask your students a variety of questions such as multiple choice, short answer and show your work. Show your work is probably the coolest feature, as it requires students to draw (using their trackpad) in order to answer the question.
	Socrative Socrative is a tool that will allow you to assess your students through quizzes. They also allow a quick question option as you are going, you can easily create a question to fit your needs. Plus, they offer some fun review games for students, like Space Race. Plus, Socrative offers a quick exit ticket question for you to use as well. Socrative is a freemium tool, but full socrative is only $29 per year and may be worth it.
	Quizizz Quizizz is a fun quiz tool that allows students to work at their own pace, earning points for speed (if you choose) and correct answers. This tool is a lot of fun because it celebrates correct answers with funny memes. The game is a good way to review learning in a day or to ensure that students have mastered the necessary content. Plus, Quizizz is free! Check out this cool video!