My students have a grammar assessment coming up this week on independent and dependent clauses. We're going to try using InfuseLearning.com, which is a site designed to measure both formative and summative learning, although the site is probably best used for formative assessments.
Teachers set up class rosters, and then results are automatically tabulated by class and student in spreadsheets. Teachers control everything at teacher.infuselearning.com while students log in at student.infuselearning.com and enter the teacher's unique "classroom" number.
Here's a look at the site.
This is my teacher home screen so you can get idea of the options available:
This is the quiz manager page (I've divided my grammar assessment into sections so that the students are not forced to take the entire assessment in one sitting, and I also get separate scores for knowledge of independent vs. dependent clauses):
Here is a view of the part specific to the students' APPLICATION of their knowledge of the two types of clauses:
This is the student log-in page:
And this is an example item from the quiz in student view:
I especially like that I'm able to get feedback from the students on the difficulty of the assessment just as I could on a paper-and-pencil test:
Of course, there are a few things I would change. The "draw" option that is only available for formative assessments would be great for summative ones, too, because then I could upload a portion of text and have students directly annotate it. Math teachers could do the same with problems. Hopefully they'll add this feature in the future.
I also wish they would increase the size of the text that the students see and make the size of images adjustable. Perhaps those are other changes they'll make in the future.
Overall, it's pretty robust. I'm excited to see how it goes!
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