Tools that can be used in online assessment

Assessment tools helps the teacher to evaluate the knowledge of the student and provide valuable information about student learning by informing us what students learned, how well they learned it, and where they struggled.

 It's quick and simple to create an assessment and automatically grade quizzes which leads to view the results fast. Also statistics can be viewed as graphs concerning who submit of the class as a whole. Students answer through typing short paragraphs or by clicking on the the correct choice, etc...

It is free and an easy to use, powerful, interactive presentation. Teachers create a question, audience submit the answer, then all responses are visualized by the instructor. It can be used to engage students to enable every voice in classroom or as a fun way to break up learning.

A great to give students a voice in steering the direction of live lesson plans, it is a simple evaluation tool used to check student understanding also can be used as a warm up activity that engage children with minimal setup.

One of the most widely tools used by teachers to check streamline summative and formative assessments to manage classes, to keep class materials and share them with students to communicate about their classwork and their assignment which results in a feedback.

Game based approach to create an interactive experience through quiz games within minutes where teacher can add multiple choice or true/false questions that are timed and scored.

Used to gauge student performance to assess their understanding of a subject, pushes learners to become more critical in their thinking thus it provide them with skills while developing their language use.

Yet there are other many tools used by the teacher to enhance student engagement and brainstorming activity.

Integrating technology into teaching

• Technology is a central part in our everyday lives now. Todays students love technology, they use it all the time, they will be interested and engaged in learning if they use the tool they love.
• Technology has advanced rapidly in education, nowadays technology incorporates on the content as well as on how we teach it. The knowledge domain, the knowledge of your content must intersects with technology for an innovative teaching and learning to occur. Technology integration to classroom can done by allowing students to conduct research online for various projects to increase student motivation also to let them be more engaged within the learning activity, also by  through gamifying the learning process to grasp student's attention to follow on while having fun and learning at the same time.

• Impact of introducing education technology in classroom is remarkable, it's benefits are recognized as follows:

1. Improves effective collaboration and building team spirit among students when working on group projects that boost their productivity, capacity and performance. For example when our Doctor Amal Farhat had grouped us to conduct an activity on google forms representing ISTE standards for students, more ideas are shared between us also combining variety of skills to tackle more complex problems.
2. Introduce a fun way of learning which ensures that students interact in class while also completing learning objectives. For example the usage of Akelius app, which is designed to practice and master English tasks while having the highest score that leads to better knowledge retention not just gaining knowledge.
3. Encourages interactive learning between student and the teacher, which make students more interested in learning the subject and also encouraged them to actively participate in the classroom. Also helps teachers to monitor the progress of their students and to identify where students require additional help.

EDUC561 Class

• What I like about this course?

Using technology purposefully by the teacher in their classroom will definitely encourages critical thinking skills of the students. It helps me in how I can create a more engaged environment in which traditional dull subjects can be turned into interactive and fun activities as a result more time can be spent on basic learning tasks. In addition, this course helps me in modifying my lessons to better fit every student to let them learn at their own pace and in their own way to keep them empowered and engaged.

• What I wish was different in this course?

Technology should be used as a tool in the classroom by the teacher rather than being the sole component of the learning process for the students. So learning on campus will  has a great impact on us because interacting with people face to face is a very different experience that will help the teacher to be enforced more as an educator rather than being a manager.