Related resources
This section provides resources that can help you write assessment tasks and outlines some of the technologies that you can use to create questions for assessment tasks, including quizzes, lessons and scheduled timed assessments. Some learning technologies can also efficiently check questions, provide feedback, and give the educator indicators of student understanding to allow adjustments to content delivery.
Technologies for creating questions
Questioning tool | Use | Question formats |
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Formative and summative assessment with quick feedback and marking | Multiple choice, embedded answers (Cloze), numerical, calculated (arithmetic), drag and drop, multiple response, true/false, short answer, essay, matching, select missing words | |
Adding questions within a stream of content and/or activities | Multiple choice, multiple response, true/false, short answer, essay, matching | |
Adding questions within a stream of content and/or activities | Multiple choice, multiple response, true/false, short answer, essay, matching, interactive video, arithmetic quiz, drag and drop, drag the words, image hotspots, mark the words, speak the words | |
Quick gauge of understanding or to frame discussions | Multiple choice, word cloud, up-vote down-vote, rank order, open ended question, clickable image | |
Examine students' knowledge, skills and attributes effectively using online assessment activities | Multiple choice, true/false, matching, embedded (cloze), short answer, essay, composite (case study, multi-part questions), drag and drop, hybrid |
Relevant policies & procedures
Monash has specific policies and procedures related to marking and grading assessment. Take the time to review these to inform your teaching practice.