Designing Assessments

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Key Points:

  • Provide clear instructions on what students are expected to do, what they should submit, and in what format. Online students don't have the luxury of talking to you after class and getting these clarifications.

  • Answer assessment related queries promptly. Otherwise these may become hurdles for students to progress with the course.

  • Give constructive feedback on submissions.

Online assessments depend on the instructor's goal and the features supported by the platform.

How to do online assessment?

Some typical instructor's goals are:

  • Analyze progress of students to improve learning and teaching.

  • Students demonstrate achievement of knowledge and skills.

Some common types supported by most platforms are:

      • Multiple Choice Quizzes

      • Short Answer Questions

      • Open Ended Questions

      • FIle Submissions

      • Collaborative Activities

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Technology tools for various types of online assessments

Here are some how-to's for creating various types of assessment activities in Moodle:

MCQ Quiz / Assimilation

[Moodle]

Open Ended Question

[Moodle]

Collaborative Activities

[Moodle]

File Submissions

[Moodle]

Following is a set of guidelines for ways of conducting assessment using the various features of Moodle. These are created by Prof. P. Sunthar, IIT Bombay, and reproduced here with permission.

Online assessments with manual grading

Advanced Subjective Assessments: PDF annotations and Rubrics:

Simple online examination: MCQ, Numerical, Fill in the blanks

Math and Engineering questions

Here are some how-to's for creating various types of assessment activities in Google Suite:

MCQ Quiz / Assimilation

[Google Forms]

Open Ended Question

[Google Forms]

Collaborative Activities

[Google Jamboard]

File Submissions

[Google Forms]

Here are some how-to's for carrying out various types of assessments:

Here are some other tools available for interaction and assessments:

Recommendations for Online Assessments

Here is an article that presents a comparitive analysis of various tools available for creating surveys.