Assessment can be any task or activity that evaluates students’ progress toward your course’s learning outcomes. Traditional examples include individual or group assignment, collaborative projects, reflective journals (blog), group work, quizzes, podcast, and much more. Online learning provides great opportunity for course designers to be creative in designing assessment even further. It gives you, the instructor, a wide variety of tools that you can use to help students interact with material in new and exciting ways. Here are some examples.