Powerful formative assessment tool that helps you grasp what concepts your students are understanding. This will provide you with instant feedback that you can use to review with your students as they respond to questions.
This can be a wonderful tool for assessing students to figure out what they know.
Cool tool for checking student understanding and providing quick feedback to them.
Students LOVE this game. And it provides you with a great deal of information about what they know and don’t know. A fun way to get the pulse of your classroom.
This is THE tool you should be using for real assessments. The data it provides and the easy integration with our gradebook makes it an obvious tool you should have in your teacher toolbox.
A fun and engaging way to allow your students to interact with your content. It allows them to draw, respond via text, answer multiple choice questions, true false questions, and simply agree or disagree with comments in a visual way that all students in the class can see. Once your students are logged into their google accounts, this is definitely something you should play with. Kids love it!
This app has several options for formative assessment. It allows teachers to quiz students and receive instant feedback. It allows for a discussion thread. There is also a little feature that lets students tell you if they are confused or getting it. It is free to use as long as your class sizes are below 30.
This is a good program to get quick feedback from students. You can ask quick multiple choice questions and the results display nicely for the class. These are free to teachers as long as you are limiting sessions to less than 40 students per session. Check out the intro video on the link above for more information.
Engaging and interactive, this mobile device tool allows students to interact with content in creative ways. The varied tools allow teachers to reach learners in many different ways that are sure to fit the diverse learning styles of students.
A quick way to allow your students to build a “word wall” or “word cloud” with quick answers. For example: “What concept are you struggling with right now” would give you all of your student’s opinions in different size words. Any answers that are repeated give LARGE words in the responses.
A formative assessment tool that can be used with ONE CLASSROOM DEVICE. Students hold up “QR” code like answer cards and the teacher can scan and review their responses with a phone or tablet.
This is a simple way to create polls in your class, short quizzes, top ten lists, or personality tests. The finished product seems a lot like the quizzes you would see on facebook. If you are looking for an informal way to start conversations or pose questions, this is a cool site. It requires an account (but it is free).
This is a great formative assessment tool that offers features that others do not. Like many other formative assessment tools you can do traditional assessment questions. Unlike other assessment tools, this will allow you to offer whiteboard and drawing tools. A great tool. A must try!