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20 Formative Assessment
Tools for Your Classroom
OCTOBER 29, 2018  BY KASEY BELL

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The Shake Up Learning community is always chatting and

sharing digital tools and lesson ideas for the K12 classroom.
Recently, we discussed our favorite formative assessment
tools for the classroom, and I wanted to share these here for
you as a resource.

In this post, you will find 20 Formative Assessment Tools for

Your Classroom!
Let’s make sure we are all on the same page when it comes
to formative assessment, or what I like to refer to as,
“Assessment FOR Learning,” as a follower of Rick
Stiggins‘ work over the years.

“Teachers who use, “Assessment FOR learning,” involve their

students in ongoing self-assessment in ways that reveal to
those learners (a) where they are headed in their learning, (b)
where they are now in relation to those expectations, and (c)
how each student can close the gap between the two.” – Rick
Stiggins
Formative assessment is such an essential part of the
learning process and student success, and many digital tools
can help support this process.

This list has a wide variety of features and options to help you
solidify your formative assessment strategies! Many of the
tools below are great for both formative and summative
assessments.

20 Formative Assessment Tools for Your

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20 Formative Assessment Tools for

Your Classroom
(in alphabetic order)

1. Edpuzzle
Edpuzzle allows you to turn videos into a quick assessment.
Choose a video on YouTube, Khan Academy, Crash Course,
or upload your own. Trim the video, insert a quiz anywhere
and track your students progress. (Freemium, basic account
is free, additional features available with paid accounts.)

2. Edulastic
Edulastic is a complete assessment dashboard. Teachers can
create and track assessments, and even align with CCSS.
They also offer a district wide-platform for sharing district-wide
assessments. (Free for teachers, district-sharing requires a
paid license.)

3. Flipgrid
Flipgrid is a video discussion platform, that allows students to
respond to questions, topics, and reflect using video. Students
can also respond to each other, leave comments, and more.
(Free!)

4. Gimkit
Some have said that Gimkit is Kahoot on steroids. Gimkit is
another fast-paced quiz game, but with an extra element.
Student earn in-game cash to spend on game
upgrades. Check out Leslie Fisher’s review and video to learn
more.

5. Google Classroom Question Tool

Inside Google Classroom, you have the option to create a
questions and share that with students. You can make this
collaborative, or just have the answers viewable for you the
teacher. This is not a robust threaded discussion tool like I
wish it was, but it can be handy for formative assessments
and to check for understanding.

6. Formative
Formative is a free online assessment tool that is very robust.
Formative allows teachers to choose pre-made assessments
and edit to fit your needs, create your own from scratch, or
even upload a PDF or doc to create. They also offer some
fantastic data that you can track and intervene when needed.
(FREE and integrates with Google Classroom!)

7. Google Forms
Google forms is a survey and quiz tool that is very easy to
use. You can feed your form or quiz data into a Google Sheet
for analysis and evaluation. Both Google Forms and Sheets
also have many “add-ons” that give users even more
capabilities that can power your formative assessments.
(FREE)

8. InsertLearning
InsertLearning is a Chrome extension that lets you turn any
webpage into an interactive lesson. InsertLearning has this
fantastic toolbar that will allow you to highlight text, add sticky
notes, insert questions, videos, or even a discussion all inside
the webpage! Learn more about InsertLearning here: 4 Ways
to Blend Learning with InsertLearning. (InsertLearning is a
freemium application, but you get your first five lessons for
free.)

9. Kahoot!
Kahoot! is a game-based learning and trivia platform that
allows you to create very engaging quizzes for your
classroom. Kahoot! is super fun and addictive. You can create
your own kahoots, or choose from their library of games. Play
live kahoots, in groups, issue challenges, or assign as
homework. (FREE)

10. Mentimeter
Mentimeter is an interactive presentation tool that allows you
to poll your students, check for understanding, or ask students
to vote. There are several different types of questions you can
create, image-based, multiple choice, scales, open-ended,
questions from the audience and more. You can even
generate word clouds out of responses! (Freemium, some
features are free.)

11. Nearpod
Nearpod is an interactive classroom tool for teachers to
engage students with interactive lessons. Nearpod allows you
to create and share lessons that sync across devices and
encourage student participation, and evaluate student
responses through comprehensive reporting. (Freemium,
some features are free.)

12. Padlet
Padlet is a super easy to way to create an online bulletin
board that allows teachers and students to share and
collaborate. What’s great about Padlet is that it offers so much
flexibility! It works on any device, and you can share just
about any type of information–text, links, upload files, photos,
videos, just about any kind of response. There are also many
different ways you can design your pages. Customize the
background, organize information in new ways. (Free trial
available)

13. Pear Deck

Pear Deck is a web-based formative assessment tool that
allows you to create interactive lessons using G Suite tools.
The Google Slides add-on has quickly become a favorite of
mine. (I even teach it in my Google Slides Master Class!)
Pear Deck offers a library of free templates that you can use
to created interactive assessments in your slides. Pear Deck
is also a freemium tool, some features are free, but you can
get a 3-month Premium Membership with this special link for
Shake Up Learning readers!

14. Plickers
This assessment tool allows teachers to collect on-the-spot
formative assessment data without the need to have students
use devices or paper and pencil. Teachers create and print
specially coded cards that students hold up in class as their
response. The teacher uses the Plickers app to scan the
cards and collect the data. (Free)

15. Poll Everywhere

Poll Everywhere is a live audience polling tool that integrates
into your presentation. You can ask questions during your
lessons, see live data, and reports. (Freemium, free accounts
are limited to 25 responses per poll.)

16. Quizizz
Quizizz allows you to conduct student-paced formative
assessments in a fun and engaging way for students of all
ages. Quizizz works on just about any device and offers a
library of public quizzes that teachers can use in their
classrooms. They also provide detailed class and student
reports. (FREE)

17. Quizlet
Quizlet is a study tool that uses flashcards, games, and other
“study sets.” to help students. Quizlet Live is a collaborative
quiz game where students are placed into teams to work
together to answer the questions and learn together. (FREE)

18. Seesaw
Seesaw is a digital portfolio and communication tool that
many teachers love! Seesaw works on any device shared or
1:1. Free for teachers. Teachers create activities for students.
Students draw, take pictures and video, and capture their
learning in their portfolio. Parents can view their students work
and leave comments. (Freemium, some features are free.)

19. Socrative
Socrative is a web-based formative assessment tool that
allows teachers to create quizzes, ask questions, collect exit
tickets and feedback. You can also create a competitive quiz
bowl game, called, “Space Race,” where students compete to
get the most answers correct. (Freemium with up to 50
students per session.)

20. Spiral.ac
Spiral.ac is an interactive learning platform with a suite of
collaborative applications. Deliver quickfire formative
assessments, discussion, teams of students can work
together to create presentations, and turn any public video
into a live chat with questions and quizzes. (Freemium, some
features are free.)