Assessment Tools
Quizzes & Polls
- Answer Garden – Poll & word cloud generator
- Blooket – Quizzes and games
- Flippity - Assessment and design tool
- Gimkit – Quiz-style student-response game
- GoSoapBox – Web-base clicker tool
- Google Forms – Quiz questions with data exported to a Google Sheet
- Kahoot – Quiz-style student-response game
- Mentimeter - Polling/quiz tool
- Plickers – In-person, visual, multiple-choice assessment tool
- Crowdsignal (formerly Polldaddy) – Survey and polls
- Poll Everywhere – Polling tool
- Quizizz – Polls and quizzes
- Socrative – Quizzes and games
- Slido - Polling/quiz tool
Interactive Videos
- Edpuzzle – Videos with quiz questions and prompts
- Playposit – Web-based video platform for formative assessment
- TED-Ed – Educational videos with formative assessment questions and discussions
Feedback
- Classkick – Interactive, real-time assessment
- Formative – Interactive, real-time assessment
- Floop – Visual feedback tool
- JoeZoo – Google add-on for summative and formative assessment
- Mote - Audio feedback tool
- Nearpod - Formative assessment tool
- Pear Deck – Interactive, real-time or asynchronous assessment
Other
- Goosechase – Multi-modal scavenger hunt
Assessment Tools A-Z

AnswerGarden is an easy-to-use polling tool that allows a teacher to quickly collect students' thoughts and ideas. It adopts a minimalist design that allows users to create, share, answer, and manage topic questions without signing up for accounts. A…

Blooket is a trivia and review tool that allows educators to “level up classroom engagement” (Blooket, 2021, para. 1). Blooket is a gamified learning platform where teachers host games through question sets and students answer on their ow…

ClassDojo is a community-centered learning website and application that provides a platform for teachers, students, and parents to collaborate and build a community together. Having multiple uses, ClassDojo is “actively used in 95% of all K-8 s…

Classkick is a free digital formative assessment tool that allows teachers to create lessons and assignments that students work through on their devices at their own pace. Teachers can observe student progress in real time and provide immediate feedb…

EdPuzzle is a free assessment-centered tool that allows teachers and students to create interactive online videos by embedding either open-ended or multiple-choice questions, audio notes, audio tracks, or comments on a video. Edpuzzle inter…

Flippity is a site that gives teachers access to a variety of tools to use in the classroom to enhance student experience and engagement. There are currently 27 different tools on Flippity. Some of these tools work directly through the Flippity site,…

Floop is a browser-based tool that eases the process of providing students with digital, interactive feedback on their paper-based assignments and it’s available on all platforms. With Floop, students can submit their assignments by snappi…

Formative is a real-time, interactive assessment tool. A formative assessment is a formal or informal opportunity to do two things: identify which students are struggling AND intervene. “If an educator does not make a…

Gimkit is an interactive digital quiz-style game that can excite and inspire learning. Similar to Kahoot!, Gimkit allows educators and students to create multiple choice questions from scratch for any topic area and it also allows users to impor…

Goosechase is a digital tool and app for creating multimodal scavenger hunts. Using Goosechase, students can take photos or videos of scavenger hunt items, solve riddles and word puzzles, and tag themselves at a GPS location, such as a historical mon…

GoSoapBox is a web-based student response system. Its creator and CEO, John Styley, remembered that he shied away from asking questions when he was a college student. Feeling he had missed opportunities to express his lack of comprehension and that i…

Google Forms is a free online tool from Google which allows users to create forms, surveys, and quizzes as well as to collaboratively edit and share the forms with other people. Educators can use Google forms to assess their students at the beginning…

Do you want to organize and categorize your comments while providing feedback? JoeZoo may be the perfect tool for you. JoeZoo is an online summative and formative assessment tool that enriches the feedback process between teacher and students. JoeZoo…

Kahoot is a free student-response tool for administering quizzes, facilitating discussions, and collecting survey data. It is a game-based classroom response system played in real time. Questions are projected on a shared screen, while players answer…

Mentimeter is an online presentation-building tool that facilitates audience engagement. The tool allows presenters to include polls, multiple-choice and open-ended questions, quizzes, and scales that audience members can interact with live. Mentimet…

Mote is an audio-based feedback tool that saves time, improves connection, and expands access. This assessment tool is a Google for Education partner that has been used to give feedback more than 30 million times by over one million users (Mote, 2022…

Nearpod is a formative assessment and learning tool that allows educators to teach their students in a variety of modes, such as live participation, student-paced, and front-of-class teaching. With Nearpod, teachers have the opportunity to create the…

Pear Deck is a popular formative assessment tool that allows teachers to design interactive presentations and engage students in learning through multiple choice questions, drag-and-drop and text-based prompts, drawing, interactive maps, and more. Te…

Playposit is a interactive web-based video platform that allows educators to conduct formative assessments both inside and outside the classroom. Teachers are able to embed questions and prompts into videos from Youtube, Vimeo, Khan Academy, and…

Plickers is an assessment tool made by a teacher who was looking for a quick and simple way to check student understanding. This assessment tool allows teachers to collect on-the-spot formative assessment data without the need to have students …

Crowdsignal, formerly Polldaddy*, is a website that allows you to create, distribute, and interpret the results of polls, surveys, quizzes, and ratings. Crowdsignal is an easy to use assessment tool that will change the way you teach for the better; …

Poll Everywhere is a dynamic online polling platform that allows students to vote on custom teacher-generated polls through text messaging (SMS), smartphone, or computer by visiting this website. With a free educator account with Poll Everywhere, pol…

Slide is an online question and answer polling platform that teachers can use to get feedback from their audience. Slido is “Trusted by more than 750k customers worldwide” (Sli.do). Slido users can create polls, quizzes, and word clouds a…

Socrative is a quiz-based, formative assessment tool with multiple features that can enrich teaching and learning. Teachers can design quizzes, space races (picture being at the county fair and squirting water at a target to move a horse across the f…

TED Ed is a “lesson creator” platform that allows you to structure an assignment around a video and assess students’ engagement with the material. The lesson format consists of a lesson title, a written introduction (“Let&rsqu…

Quizziz is an online assessment tool that allows to teachers and students to create and use one another’s quizzes. After providing students with a unique access code, a quiz can be presented live as a timed competition or used for homework with…

Quizlet is a digital learning tool that can be used by students, parents, and teachers. The site contains over 100 million sets of study materials created by other users that range in topics from Landmark Supreme Court Cases to Structures of th…

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