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Online Assessment Building and Taking Using Web 2.0
Online assessments help students to develop and hone their 21st century skills in that they are fine tuning their computing skills. The first online assessment website to be looked at today is quia.com. Here, most online assessments are teacher created, however some can be created by the students to be used for a review activity. A way that the online assessments meet UDL is that the teacher can custom create the assessments for students with special needs. Instead of having to white out questions, or cross them out, the teacher simple chooses which questions appear for the students. Another way UDL is met for these students is that the teacher has the option to have only one question at a time appear for the students, so they are not overwhelmed. The questions can also be read to the student as well, so the teacher does not have to make the students wait for help.

The next online assessment website that we will be looking at is puzzlemaker.com. This tool is connected to the discovery learning network of online tools. Here both students and teachers can create puzzles to be worked on either the computer or to be printed out at their seats. Some of the assessments include math puzzles, or key vocabulary puzzles. Some different puzzle types include word scrambles, word searches, or crossword puzzles.

Online Assessments made using Quia
[|Quia Voki]

Puzzlemaker as an online assessment tool
[|Puzzlemaker Voki]

Links
[|Quia.com]

[|Puzzlemaker.com]

Activities list day 5
1. Listen to Voki on Quia.com 2. The participants will then create a quia.com profile and create at least two assessments per subject participants teach. 3. The participants will then create modified assessments for students with special needs. 4. Discussion of the ease of use in creating, grading and modifying assessments with tools found on the web. 5. Listen to the Voki on puzzlemaker. 6. Participants will then go to the puzzlemaker site and create at least two of every type of puzzle featured for assessment purposes. 7. Discussion on how Web 2.0 tools, help in the assessment process.