Assessment Strategies that Engage Students

Course Description

This course is offered as a partnership between the An important component of successful online teaching is developing effective assessment strategies and integrating multiple forms of assessment in order to provide students with diverse opportunities to evaluate their performance. In this workshop, you will discover a multitude of formative and summative assessment techniques used in online education, including both traditional and alternative assessments, and how to find an appropriate balance between the two. 

You’ll dig deeper into the flaws commonly present in multiple-choice questions that can affect student performance and learn best practices for developing higher quality questions. You will also have the opportunity to explore popular assessment tools that can be incorporated within the online environment. Throughout the workshop, you will work on developing assessment strategies suitable for your online course and create a plan to help align course learning objectives and instructional activities with assessments.