Online assessment involves using digital devices to construct, deliver, store, or report on student assessment tasks and responses. It provides benefits like efficiency through timeliness and automatic processing, as well as effectiveness through immediate feedback and new question types. Various online assessment formats are available, including MCQ, essays, drag and drop, ordering, blogs, discussions, and self/peer review. Popular examination tools include Kahoot!, Mentimeter, Google Forms, and e-portfolio platforms like Google Sites. Overall, online assessment facilitates engagement, identification of misunderstandings, flexibility, and enhanced social interactions.

1. ONLINE ASSESSMENT FOR
TEACHER EDUCATION
For MGAHV, Wardha
Professor Ramakanta Mohalik
Regional Institute of Education
Bhubaneswar
email-rkmohalik@riebbs.ac.on

2. What is Online Assessment
• It involves use of digital devices to assist in the
construction, delivery, storage or reporting of
students assessment task/responses,
grades/feedback.
• It can be part of LMS like Moodle, Sakai and
BlackBoard.
• It can be independent like Mentimeter,
ExamSoft, Kahoot!
• It is more than MCQ, it can involve blogs,
wikis, self/peer reviews

3. Why Online Assessment
• Availability of cloud computing
• Web 2.0 technology-Collaborative & virtual
space
• Remote learning environment
• Paradigm shift of teaching-learning
• Changing nature of learners (Digital native)

4. Benefits of Online Assessment
• Efficiency: Timeliness, Flexible delivery, Auto
processing of responses, storage of result.
• Effectiveness: Immediate feedback, new
question types
• Authenticity: Access to people & responses,
stimulate real world, complex problem solving
task.
• Engagement: Multi modal format, use virtual
world, use self & peer review

5. Benefits of Online Assessment
• Easy identification of areas of learner misunderstanding and
misconceptions
• Flexibility that allow students to take a test from anywhere and at
any time
• Offering new possibilities for interactivity
• Providing detailed and immediate feedback
• Facilitating enhanced social interactions
• Facilitating the exposition of advanced skills and capabilities
• Increasing grading accuracy
• Providing repeated opportunities for learners to practice
understanding when online
• quizzes or assignments can be repeated multiple times
• Storing and reusing of assessments
• Shuffling and randomizing assessment questions and options

6. Online Assessment Formats
• MCQ
• Free text-Short & long essay
• Hot Spot-Drag & drop
• Cloze
• Ordering
• Blog
• Discussion Forum
• Self/peer review
• Online group project-Google doc/wiki
• e-Portfolio

7. Examination Tools
• Hot Potatoes
• Kahoot!
• PaperShala
• Socrative
• Google Forms
• Goformative
• Quizizz
• TCExam
• Mentimeter

8. mentimeter.com
• It is very good presentation and assessment
tool used in online class.
• Log in to mentimeter.com
• Put the number code show
• Then answer

9. Kahoot!
• Go to Kahoot!
• Create Game –questions
• Play with students
• Students enter the PIN to participate and
answer
• Teacher can see the answering pattern on line.

10. Examination Tools
• VirtualX
• Think Exam
• Metti
• ExamSoft
• LumiNUS
• Screencast (Ink2Go)

11. e-Portfolio
• Google sites
• Google slides
• Weebly
• Seesaw
• Evernote
• Canvas
• Wordpress

12. e-Portfolio
• Edublog
• Mahara
• PebblePad
• Rcampus

13. Conclusion
• Ensure availability of Digital devices and
applications with teachers and students
• Build support system in schools/colleges and
universities
• Orient teachers and students about the use of
online assessment