Google Docs
Google Docs and other google drive resources are good for formative assessments. It is a web-based tool that is free to use and can connect easily to students' and teachers' google drives. Along with the ability to make real-time comments on a document as it is being written.
Pros: Free, Easy to use, connectivity, commenting as the student is editing.
Cons: Limited space in Google Drives
Kahoot!
Kahoot! is a formative assessment tool that allows teachers to gauge their student's understandings of the material. The educator can either create or find a Kahoot! quiz and then give it to their students and the students take the quiz as a class going question by question. Then at the end, the students with the highest scores are displayed and congratulated.
Pros: Students must be engaged, fun music, free, easily accessible, easily creatable
Cons: Some students don't take it seriously, values quick answers more than right answers.
Edpuzzle
Edpuzzle is a formative assessment tool that tracks students' progress when given a video that the teacher can create or can be from youtube. Teachers embed questions within the video to keep students on track and paying attention to the video.
Pros: Student engagement, easily manageable, room for creativity
Cons: If students don't pay attention their score reflects it, engagement is forced
Google Docs and other google drive resources are good for formative assessments. It is a web-based tool that is free to use and can connect easily to students' and teachers' google drives. Along with the ability to make real-time comments on a document as it is being written.
Pros: Free, Easy to use, connectivity, commenting as the student is editing.
Cons: Limited space in Google Drives
Kahoot!
Kahoot! is a formative assessment tool that allows teachers to gauge their student's understandings of the material. The educator can either create or find a Kahoot! quiz and then give it to their students and the students take the quiz as a class going question by question. Then at the end, the students with the highest scores are displayed and congratulated.
Pros: Students must be engaged, fun music, free, easily accessible, easily creatable
Cons: Some students don't take it seriously, values quick answers more than right answers.
Edpuzzle
Edpuzzle is a formative assessment tool that tracks students' progress when given a video that the teacher can create or can be from youtube. Teachers embed questions within the video to keep students on track and paying attention to the video.
Pros: Student engagement, easily manageable, room for creativity
Cons: If students don't pay attention their score reflects it, engagement is forced