Creating Summative Assessments

Schoology has been committed to developing a more robust assessment feature for teachers to use with their students. At this point, teachers can create assessments, build questions and reference materials, assign to students, and share assessments with other teachers. Create and assign rubrics to specific questions to provide students with a more detailed breakdown of their score. The schoology assessment feature also has a more detailed math editor than the original test/quiz option. Grades from Schoology Assessments can be tracked directly to the PowerTeacher Pro gradebook.

This year, Schoology hopes to add a question bank feature, more friendly printable tests, and a variety of grading views for teachers.

Unfortunately, there is no lock-down browser option that works with our student Chromebooks.

Schoology Help Page Instruction for Assessments

As a district, we have purchased a license for the online testing feature in Mastery Manager. It is possible to upload existing PDF assessments to Mastery Manager and have students take the assessments on their Chromebooks using the Exam Login app (lock-down browser). However, it is also possible to use the Item Bank 2 feature to build, share, & assign questions directly in Mastery Manager. Teachers can create questions and reference materials in "My Content" then combine them into an assessment or share them with a workgroup. Reference materials can include text, images, audio clips and videos then related questions can be linked directly to those materials. Rubrics can also be created in Mastery Manager and linked to specific, reviewable questions. To take the assessment, students open the Exam Login app in the bottom left corner of their Chromebooks and enter the code generate specifically for each class by Mastery Manager.

Note: The equation editor in Mastery Manager is more robust than the one in Schoology.