Create assessments in your Schoology course to assess your students' grasp of the material or evaluate their preparedness for class. Each assessment is automatically graded (unless you've included a subjective question, such as a short answer/essay), providing you with instant and powerful feedback that can help guide your upcoming lesson plans.
Why would you want to start using Assessments? Schoology Assessments is the next generation of the Quiz/Test tool and provides the following:
- 7 new enhanced question types (along with the ones we already have)
- accessibility features (change color scheme, font size, zoom)
- more optional tools for students (calculator, protractor, etc)
- more options for students (ability to eliminate choices, ability to flag questions for review)
- and more!
Yes, you can. Both the Test/Quiz tool and the Assessment tool will appear under the Materials area. However, eventually the Schoology Assessment tool will replace the Schoology Test/Quiz tool.
When will the TestQuiz tool go away? Schoology has stated publicly that this will happen a little while after the Schoology Assessment tool contains the features it is currently missing as it is still being developed.
What will happen with the Test/Quiz questions you have already created?
Schoology has promised a tool that will convert your Test/Quiz questions into the Assessment format. This should be coming out sometime in 2018.
What are some of the items that are not yet available in Schoology Assessments?
- No ability to record audio/video yet
- No ability to import questions/save questions to question bank yet
- No printing options
- No ability to time individual questions (but ability to time overall quiz is there)
- No language keyboards yet
- Limited insert menu
More Information
- To get more information about Assessments, check out the following:
- BASD Assessment Announcement video
- Official Schoology Assessment guide here
- Schoology YouTube Playlist on Assessments: https://youtu.be/Uv_zbk81nCY
