Tools that can be used in online assessment

  In the last few years, and as a consequence of COVID-19 pandemic, the majority of schools and universities shifted to online learning to complete the educational process remotely. As a result of these desicions, alternative tools for students evaluations and assessments had to found to ensure the success of online teaching and learning programs. But, this wasn't a big problem since a quite large number of online tools are available nowadays to aid in the online assessment of students. Many of these tools can facilitate preparing formative assessments for students that aim to review materials explained and check students' understanding such as Polleverywhere, Quizlet, Mentimeter, Padlet, Nearpod, Quizziz, Word Wall, Formative, and many other efficient apps and websites. Tools for preparing summative evaluations which are graded assessments done at the end of a lesson or a school term are available too. Google forms is the most popular tool for such assessments, it can be used to prepare a test containing different question types, assign grades to each question, and adjust the settings of the test based on teachers' needs and purposes. Online summative assessments can also be conducted by assigning a project to students to complete using google docs, google slides, google sheets, google sites, or maybe as them to create a blog.