Assessment Tools
These tools help educators create, administer, and grade assessments.
These tools help educators create, administer, and grade assessments.
Cirrus is a powerful and intuitive online exam platform designed to help educators create, manage, and deliver assessments efficiently. It offers advanced question types, blueprints, psychometric data, and custom marking workflows, ensuring exams are relevant to modern learners. The platform also boasts robust security features, including anti-cheating measures and ISO certification, guaranteeing exam integrity and reliability.
Cirrus provides significant benefits by ensuring a smooth and efficient assessment process for both staff and students. Its user-friendly interface makes it easy to learn and use, while dedicated customer success teams support seamless implementation and ongoing assistance. This results in higher satisfaction levels among educators and students, ultimately enhancing the overall learning experience.
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EasyTestMaker is an online tool designed to help educators create, print, and publish tests with ease. It supports multiple question types, including multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank, matching, short answer, and true or false. Tests can be divided into sections, and online tests are automatically graded.
Educators can use EasyTestMaker to streamline the test creation process. They can add and organize questions, create alternate versions with randomized questions and answers, and publish tests online for automatic grading. This tool also allows for easy retrieval and modification of tests, making it simple to update or print additional copies. It offers significant benefits by saving time on formatting and grading, allowing educators to focus more on teaching and student engagement. The ability to generate detailed reports on student performance helps in identifying areas where students may need additional support.
Panopto offers integrated and flexible recording and publishing tools, making it easy to capture, share, and grow expert knowledge. Panopto connects with various technology tools, including LMS platforms, and supports recording from Zoom, Teams, Webex, and more. Its AI-powered tools facilitate content creation, knowledge discovery, and accessibility.
Educators can use Panopto to record lectures, meetings, and other educational content, which can then be published to a fully indexed video library. This allows students to access on-demand playback optimized for all devices. Panopto also supports interactive content creation and provides captioning for videos and live streaming, making learning more accessible and equitable.
Panopto benefits institutions by supporting diverse learning modalities, from in-person to fully remote and asynchronous learning. It enhances the online learning experience with interactive and accessible content, ensuring that students can engage with course materials anytime, anywhere. This flexibility helps future-proof enrollment and supports a rich, inclusive learning experience.
PebblePad is a comprehensive tool that supports students throughout their learning journey, from pre-arrival to graduation. It provides a versatile ePortfolio, workbook, and assessment platform that allows students to document their skills, learning, and achievements.
PebblePad enables educators to seamlessly integrate reflection, support, and assessment into their course designs. Creating digital portfolios allows educators to assist students in planning, recording, and reflecting on their learning experiences. This tool also enables the collection, curation, and display of evidence of students' developing abilities, which can be used for both formative and summative assessments.
Peergrade is designed to facilitate peer assessment in educational settings. It offers features like data-driven insights, customizable feedback, and fair evaluations. Educators can use Peergrade to create and modify evaluation rubrics, manage group projects, and decide who can evaluate. It supports various file types for hand-ins and allows for anonymous feedback, self-grading, and teacher feedback.
Peergrade enhances the learning experience by promoting active engagement and critical thinking. It ensures fair evaluations and provides valuable insights into student performance, making it a powerful tool for both students and educators.
The new PDF marker tool is available: A new PDF marker tool is available enabling lecturers to mark assignments, submitted in PDF format, electronically (on screen). The tool is still under development to improve and extend its functionality, but can already be used for basic marking. This Infographic provides an overview of the steps for using the application. For detailed instructions on downloading, installing and using the tool please view the short video clips below. More information on demonstration webinars will follow soon.
NB: Please take note that this tool is under development.
The PDF marking tool can currently only be used with the Assignments tool in eFundi and not Tests and Quizzes.
• How to set up assignments in eFundi
• Downloading and installing the tool
• Downloading assignments from eFundi
• Importing and marking assignments in PDF marker
• Exporting assignments and marks
• Uploading assignments and marks to eFundi
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