With the introduction of various advanced tools and technologies, education sector has also witnessed much advancement. Digital, cloud, and mobile technologies are extensively being used for classroom teaching and evaluation of students. With the increasing number of students in schools, organizing regular tests and quizzes manually has become a tough task. Along with this, conducting assignments, tests, surveys through manual process are considered time consuming by teachers.
Hence, more and more schools are adopting technologies to save time and paper and reduce human involvement. With automated tools, it has become easier for educational institutes to operate all the administrative and academic activities in a streamlined manner. For academic assessment also, schools are now using online assessment portal for students.
Let’s take a look at a few other reasons owing to which online assessments portals are being widely used:
Course benefits
Teachers can revise all the topics which need more clarification based on assessment results.
Graphics and multimedia can be used for making topics more interesting for students, which also increases their involvement in class.
Teachers can make diagnostic reports on the basis of individual or group performance, which can be especially useful for parent and teacher meetings.
It helps in integrating students with advanced technology rather than just sticking to book-oriented studies.
It helps in identifying and rectifying learner misunderstanding.
Student benefits
Electronic devices raise interest in students.
After assessment, test results can be declared immediately and students can get feedback accordingly.
It helps in reducing stress among students as online assessment tests do not take much time.
Online assessments provide flexibility as students can give test from anywhere and at any time with a good internet access.
It increases accuracy as answers are predefined, which reduces the chance of human error.
Students become familiar with technology-based test formats.
Interesting assessment processes help in promoting positive attitude in students.
Learners get multiple opportunities to practice and learn with repeated quizzes or tests.
Time benefits
Instant grading method of online assessment saves a lot of time and effort used in checking all the papers.
Time saved by using online assessment tests can be utilised in planning and instruction, which will help in development of students.
Students will take less time in completing online tests than written tests.
Online exams can be easily assembled and previewed, and can be edited and published instantly if required.
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