Overview
These tips and resources will provide a variety of ideas for preparing to assess online learning. They include alternatives to traditional assessment and academic integrity strategies. This content and more can be found elsewhere in the knowledge base; use the menu to the left to browse for more content or search by keyword at the top of the window.
Tips
Begin with How to Assess Online Learning for ideas about alternatives to tests
A review of four assessment options with suggested formats for assessing each type
Examples of assessments for a variety of formats from video recordings to portfolios and The UnEssay
Consider your Academic Integrity Strategy
Visit Boise State’s Academic Integrity for Faculty website
Incorporate the Academic Integrity Workshop into your beginning-of-the-semester assignments
Use Alternatives to tests
Move students up in Bloom’s Taxonomy, where possible, to focus on demonstrating critical thinking skills
Try something different
Instead of this | Do this |
Mid-term exam | Short quizzes with each module drawing random questions from large test pools |
Final exam | Final project demonstrating course learning objectives |
Proctored test | Open-book test with random questions to be completed in 45 minutes |
End-of-course research paper | Research paper completed in stages with assignments relating to topic selection, library research and citation skills, annotated bibliography, draft of sections with peer evaluation, video presentation highlighting results and lessons learned, final submission |
Additional Resources
Academic Integrity Links
How to Prevent Cheating During Online Tests by Schoology Exchange
Tips for Online Tests from Boise State’s Academic Integrity Program
Want to stop cheating on online quizzes?...Let them cheat! By OLC Insights
Alternatives to Tests
About Universal Design for Learning by CAST, the Center for Applied Special Technology
RubiStar - create rubrics
The Unessay by Daniel Paul O’Donnell
The Unessay by Emily Suzanne Clark
The UnEssay by Marc Kissel
The UnEssay: Making Room for Creativity in the Composition Classroom by Patrick Sullivan
Test and Quiz Tools
Adobe Scan mobile app is free and on Android and iOS; this was mentioned as a tool to get a PDF of worksheets used during an exam to demonstrate work.
FasterScan is an iPhone/iPad app that is a faster way to scan documents (even if they are curled), with your iPhone. It produces a sharp image using image enhancement technology. You instantly scan multi-pages document and send out when there is no scanner nearby.
Adding a Quiz to a Video: This article guides you through the steps of adding a quiz in your own video session.
Import a Test, Survey, or Pool: This page describes how to import a test, survey, or pool.
