Edulastic: Interactive Formative and Summative Assessment tool ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Whether you are a math teacher looking to make algebra more interesting with a YouTube video or a science teacher looking to have students label a diagram of a cell, Edulastic’s multimedia capabilities allow teachers to make learning and tests more engaging and memorable learning experiences for students.

Educators around the world use Edulastic to deliver engaging distance learning assessments or assignment to students including:

Formative assessments
Summative assessments
Quick checks (warm-ups, performance tasks, exit tickets, etc.)
Assignments
Worksheets
Labs
Homework
Lessons

No matter what the end goal or type of assessment, there is something on Edulastic for every educator at every grade, and for every subject. Educators can easily manage assessments and assignments through Edulastic’s assessment dashboard, instant reports, and other management tools. Edulastic offers a robust way to ask questions, track learning standards, and get actionable student data for those who are looking for competitive exams prep. Educators simply looking for ways to work with students and offer online learning can also develop their assignments or assessments by pulling from the online library, making their own questions, or mixing and matching.

No matter whether you’re teaching about Mesopotamia, the Civil War, or even about the formation of cosmic structures…Here are some of the numerous reasons why you should try Edulastic!

1. Free forever - Edulastic is free forever for teachers.

2. Collaborative community - With teachers creating and sharing new assignments every week, the assessment library continues to grow. Teachers have the option to like, rate, and personalize pre-existing assignments, allowing stronger assignments to rise to the spotlight.

3. Multimedia Capabilities - With Edulastic, teachers can create powerful learning experiences by incorporating videos, audio files, and images into their tests. When teaching from home, you could record a short lecture or lesson, upload it to Edulastic, and ask your students to respond using a variety of technology-enhanced items. Alternatively, you could add images or text for students to respond to. Simulations like PhET Sims can also be embedded into questions to give students an interactive experience.

4. It has a user-friendly and intuitive interface.

5. Works with Google Classroom - For a smoother digital experience, Edulastic integrates with a variety of platforms including Google Classroom, Google Docs, Microsoft Office 360 and Canvas. These integrations provide a seamless learning experience for teachers and students alike!

6. Item Bank - The question item bank saves teachers time crafting questions. Save time by drawing from more than 20,000 pre-written questions in the item bank. If you’d like, you can personalize pre-written questions and remix your own assignment to suit your classroom needs.

7. Variety of question formats - Over 30+ tech-enhanced question types provide strong options for question delivery.

8. Instant data - Edulastic’s student reports enable teachers to view student progress in an organized dashboard. The dashboard helps teachers pinpoint which concepts or disciplinary core ideas need more instructional time. The dashboard can also quickly reveal which students might need additional support. With item and standards analysis already complete teachers save time on reports! The Live Class Board shows you student responses in real-time as your students are taking the assessment.

9. Auto grading - Autograding also provides you with the option to share immediate results with students or wait to share results until the entire class has complete the assignment.

10. SnapQuiz - SnapQuiz is a quick way to turn your paper-based test into an online assessment. Simply upload your PDF assessment into Edulastic and add question “widgets”, so students can respond digitally. Many teachers use this when they have pre-made assessments that they don’t want to retype but still want instant data and results for.

11. Redirect - Redirect is a favourite feature of teachers and students. With Redirect, you can give students another chance by allowing them to simply “re-do” the assessment. You either can re-send the assessment to individual students or the entire class. This encourages a growth mindset and gives students another chance to relearn topics they may be struggling with, which is especially important when students are learning from home.

12. Close - Open assessments - Looking to give an assignment or assessment during a specific time period? No problem. On Edulastic, you can manually open, close, and pause assessments at specific times. This assessment management tool helpful when students are taking quizzes and tests from home because it increases test security and gives you more control over the testing environment.

13. Present mode - Use Present Mode to anonymize names and responses on the Live Class Board so that, as a group, the class can go over the questions and answers on an assessment. In conjunction with Google Classroom, a teacher can assign an assessment, discuss with students, and then, using Google Hangouts/Meet can share the live dashboard in Present Mode to analyze the class results with students– all in a virtual learning environment.

14. Student feedback - Edulastic makes it easy for you to give your entire class and/or individual students feedback.

Edulastic is an effective tool for assessing student progress on standards-based concepts and skills. Benefits of the program include real-time scoring of assessments, identification of students who need intervention or remediation, access to standards-aligned assessments, a variety of questions, opportunities for students to practice taking online assessments, and performance summaries that can be shared with relevant stakeholders.

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