What Assessment Strategies Have UT Instructors Used in an Online Course?
There are many online tools you can use to engage your students in effective, meaningful assessment of learning. Below is a table that outlines formative and summative assessment strategies, organized by level of thinking Links to an external site.. Click on the links in the online tools column to learn more about how instructors at UT have implemented each tool.
Assessments |
UT Snapshots of Online Tools |
KNOWWhat is the foundational knowledge and skills that students should remember and comprehend in this course? |
INTERACTIVE VIDEOS: Shelly Rodriguez and Kelli Allen (UTeach) use interactive videos to help their students understand lesson take-aways. |
ANALYZE & EVALUATEWhat skills do students need to “pull apart” the existing knowledge to look at it critically and judge it? |
PEER REVIEW: Clint Tuttle (Information, Risk, and Operations Management) uses Canvas' peer review to build collaboration and evaluation between students. |
SYNTHESIZE & CREATEWhat skills do students need to combine and build on existing knowledge to produce something new? |
INFOGRAPHIC: Kavita Radhakrishnan (School of Nursing) designed an authentic summative assessment that asked students to design realistic informatics solutions to resolve actual healthcare concerns in diverse clinical settings. |
Additional Resources
Use the resources listed below to think about the kinds of assessment you usually use in your face-to-face class, considering them as a starting place for crafting online assessments.
Tools and Technologies (Canvas Training Center) Readings and Resources Unit 2 Worksheet Download Unit 2 Worksheet