Assessment

Formative (web) Create new assignments or simply upload & transform a pre-existing pdf or doc, then tag with any standards & assign to anyone. As students respond to a question on their own devices, the teacher can view all responses simultaneously, while they are being written, allowing for fast identification of who needs help. Live responses provide the alerts needed to intervene. Give feedback and easily score or auto-grade student work.

Google Quizzes (G-Suite) When a student takes a quiz, the teacher can instantly see their responses, either individually or in summary charts

GradeCam (web) Flash assignments in front of your smartphone, tablet, webcam or document camera. Grades instantly populate onto your computer and can be transferred into your electronic grade book with one keystroke. Use results analysis for live formative assessment.

Kahoot (web, iOS, Android) Questions are projected on the classroom screen, and answer choices are shown on student devices. Create a fun learning game in minutes – called ‘kahoots’. You can make a series of multiple choice questions or try their new game Jumble. The format and number of questions are entirely up to you. Add videos, images and diagrams to your questions to amplify engagement.

Kiddom (web, iOS) Kiddom allows you to track student assignments along with the standards they assess for, then access a range of data reports that tell you which standards need more work, which students need more help, and where exactly you need to put your energy. Sync with many learning management and student information systems you already use.

Peergrade (web) A platform where students can evaluate each other’s work anonymously. You create an assignment, specify your feedback criteria and open the assignment for submission. Your students submit their work which can be anything from Word documents to Youtube videos. Peergrade automatically assigns work between the students, ensuring that everyone will get feedback. The students give feedback to the work assigned to them using the feedback criteria. When the peer feedback process is over, the students receive all the feedback given to their work. As a teacher, you get the complete overview of the quality of assignments and what feedback was given.

Plickers (iOS, Android) Augmented Reality using cards. A teacher holds up their phone and scans each student’s hardcopy Plicker card. The direction the student holds the card determines their answer in a four ways choice. Allows teacher to check class understanding without needing to logon to devices. You simply scan the classes cards held up, in one smooth flow, and the results are immediately collected in one report on your device and displayed on screen.

Poll Everywhere (web, iOS, Android) The teacher can set up a poll quickly, the class can respond right away, and the results can be published on the presenter screen instantly. Transform students' phones into teaching aids. Students respond to your polls online or via SMS texting.

Seesaw (web, iOS, Android, Kindle) Seesaw saves time on organisation and parent communication, makes formative assessment easy, and provides a safe place to teach 21st Century skills. Seesaw is an online portfolio system where students and teachers post artefacts of learning in a variety of ways: audio, video, photo, drawing, note, or link. Artefacts can be easily uploaded from any device, and all items can be annotated with a text description, text caption, or audio recording.

Socrative (web, iOS, Android) Real-time assessment data with quizzes students take through their individual devices, offering full-length and quick multiple-choice and short- answer questions, downloadable reports, and shareable quizzes. Quickly assess students with prepared activities or on-the-fly questions to get immediate insight into student understanding.