Assessment strategies
When educators provide students choice in learning, students have agency over their learning while staying focused on specific curriculum objectives. Assessment strategies such as portfolios, quizzes, discussions, conferencing, and exit tickets offer different ways for students to show evidence of their learning. Educators informally monitor work, give quick check-ins, or use rubrics for formal grading. The feedback component of any assessment is the crucial component in developing student growth. There are many ways educators employ this strategy. Using Microsoft tools with Schoology makes it easy to provide multiple assessment and feedback strategies to better support student outcomes.
A secondary Career and Technical Education (CTE) educator creates an assignment in Schoology that offers students three different ways to show their understanding in their OneNote Class Notebook student page. Students access their work in OneNote Class Notebook through the course menu in Schoology. A rubric is attached in the Schoology assignment for formal grading when the assignment is complete. The educator monitors the work, providing on-going feedback and individualized support within OneNote Class Notebook throughout the learning process. Because OneNote supports multiple modalities, the educator can leave an audio response along with digital ink annotations directly on the page as the student is working, or after the assignment is complete.
An elementary educator uses a Microsoft Forms quiz to quickly assess student understanding of a science concept before continuing with the next day's lesson. By linking to the Forms quiz directly from Schoology, the students can access the quiz through their LMS just like any assignment. The educator watches the response data in Forms in real time, providing instant input the educator can use to adjust future instruction.