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How to use online assessment tools for promoting student success in higher education?


December 28, 2015 Team Creatrix
Promoting student success using online exam tools

Integrating online assessment tools for college and university admissions can be formidable for educators.

But what if there is a way to bring computers, smartphones and tablet devices into the curriculum while saving time and engage the students for better learning outcomes with outcome based education software tools? Why not put your quizzes and evaluations online?

Online assessment tools using assignments, tests, quizzes, surveys and evaluations have become effective tools in today’s classroom.

With cloud and mobile based classroom management system, students access the tests for assessments, evaluation, and more. The testing software evaluates the tests and returns the results. Faculty can view their students' scores and share the results to students and parents via e-mail and SMS alerts. 

Any concept can be tested online including questionnaire and surveys in any style or format, which requires students to fill in or select the answers from multiple choice.

Students can also upload documents, which are submitted to the instructor for grading. With simple and easy to use assessment software available, almost any faculty can take advantage of the features and benefits.

Features

  • Create individual student academic plans to ensure student success
  • Create and register users for tests admission & assessment across web & mobile devices
  • Effectively schedule evaluation activities like tests or interview
  • Schedule multiple tests and update test scores in bulk
  • Evaluate applicants based on parameters or questions using an evaluation form
  • Generate test card automatically with the photo of students
  • Automatically generate a list of students appearing for a given test/location
  • Share assignments and other learning material with students
  • Track and compare progress of students for different periods 
  • Set grades with weightage-based score to questions
  • Track all communication with students on discussion wall and forum
  • Students can track status, make payments, view tasks, submit documents and complete forms
  • Automatically send email alerts and notifications on web and mobile app
  • Generate reports and dashboard

Benefits

  • Increase student engagement in the classroom
  • Flexible assessment models with scoring pattern based on various parameters
  • Online assessments put students in a level playing field 
  • Painless way to integrate cloud and mobile technologies
  • Significant time and cost saving
  • Automatic data backup to minimize downtime and improve efficiency