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There are many different websites that allow teachers to create quizzes and assignments, but goformative is definitely one of the more creative sites. This website allows the teacher to create an assessment and see live results. Thus, he/she can watch from their own computer what question a student is working on to help the teacher pinpoint what each student may be struggling with. Not only does this site allow students to type answers, but it also allows for them to draw on the provided workspace to help them show their work. This is especially helpful for short math assessments.  Students can also put diagrams or figures into their workspace. Through this site, the teacher can give direct and instant feedback to their students, which allows any misconceptions to be fixed instantly.

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Student-Teacher Journaling is a good way to assess students on a differentiated level. This type of assessment involves the student and teacher writing back and forth. For this type of assessment to work, students need to feel comfortable with writing down their real thoughts, so it is important that the teacher explains to the students that none of the other students will ever see the journal. The letters between the student and teacher can include thoughts about what the student believes they need to work on, as well as teaching points from the teacher. The teacher could orally ask or write a problem or question in the student's journal for the student to solve or answer it. The teacher would then give the student written feedback in the journal, so that the student knows what they did well and what they need more work on. Thus, this is an assessment type that can be used throughout the year and in various content areas with the teacher and student writing back and forth to each other.

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Another assessment that will engage students is having them create a comic strip. Teachers can use comic strips as an assessment in a variety of subjects. Typically a teacher can assess if the student knows the information that they have been taught by just looking at the comic. However, if the teacher wants to give the student a direct grade, all they need to do is create a simple rubric. Comic strips can be used for reading assignments like summarizing a story or demonstrating the beginning, middle, and end. They can also be used as an explanation tool for history and science topics. For instance, a teacher could ask their students to create a comic on the life events of a historical figure or the process of an experiment. No matter how the comic is used, the students will be engaged in completing the assessment as they are drawing, coloring, and writing.

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Beach Ball Debrief is a fun activity where the teacher has a beach ball prepared to use with their class to ask a few short debriefing questions.  The teacher has simple questions written on each section of the ball, such as rate your understanding of today's lesson, fill in the blanks of the following statement, or the best part of about class was. After the lesson or at the end of the day, the teacher would toss the ball to one of his/her students. The student would then answer the question that is under the student's right thumb. After the student answers the question, they pass the ball along to someone else in the room. The teacher can determine the rules of who can be given the ball and how many times the ball needs passed around. This activity provides a little review for the students, as well as a verbal assessment. By listening to the student's answers, the teacher will be able to see what the students are understanding, along with what content they need more time to practice.

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One of the easiest assessments is to have students write what they learned.  Everything We Learned in Five Words requires the students to not only think about what they learned, but to also condense their thoughts and pull out the most important pieces. The students will be asked to write five words that explains everything that they had just learned about a given topic on a stick note. The students will then place the sticky note on a piece of chart paper or the board for the teacher to review. Requiring students to complete an activity like this will help them remember the information in the future, as well as help the teacher know what they need more work on in the future. For this activity, the teacher may not require the students to use a complete sentence. Students may give an important definition, a list of words, bullet points, or just a short thought. The teacher can have the students write their names on the back of the sticky note if he/she wants to assess individual students. After quickly glancing over the notes, the teacher can easily see what content the students understand.

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Constructive quizzes can be used in any subject and to assess any type of standard.  These quizzes require the student to divide their answer sheet in half and write their answers twice.  Once on each side of the answer sheet.  This assessment can be done with a variety of different types of questions including with the teacher reading off spelling words to the students, multiple choice questions, short answer questions, or even math questions. Once the student is done with their assessment, they tear their sheet in half and give one half to the teacher. The other half they will use to analyze their own work or a partners work. Therefore, the teacher can go over the answers to the quiz, while the students look at their own answers and begin to understand what they did incorrectly on questions that they got wrong. This allows the students to fix misconceptions before they become routine, while the teacher has their own portion of the assessments to grade without having to worry about students cheating or changing their answers.

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One way that students can complete an assessment is through asking one another questions. An activity like Interview a Partner allows the teacher to listen into students discussing content to see whether or not the students are understanding what they are learning. For example, students who are learning about a historical figure could be given questions about the figure which they have to ask one another. The teacher can create the questions or he/she can require the students to create their own questions to ask one another. The students can act like reporters, the individual historical figure, family members of the historical figure, or just themselves as students studying the historical figure.  The teacher can also decide if they want the student to complete the interview in front of the entire class, just in front of the teacher, or just by themselves where the teacher walks around and listens in.

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There are several different types of Graffiti Walls that teachers can use in their classroom in order to assess the knowledge of their students.  One way that a teacher can use this formative assessment would be by asking their students a question and asking them to write their answer on the board or a piece of chart paper.  If a teacher is unable to watch each student write their answer at this time then they can have their students write their names under their answers.  The teacher could even ask their students to solve a math problem and show their work.  Teachers can also use a Graffiti Wall by asking their students to write a key word or draw a key concept in relation to the material that they had just learned.  Both of these graffiti walls help the teacher see what the students are and are not comprehending in a given content.

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Plickers make it very easy for teachers to assess what students know.  Each student has a unique card with a picture on it which they turn to show the teacher their answer.  Each way they turn their card gives an answer, either a, b, c, or d.  The other students cannot tell what their peers are answering because they do not know which way the student must turn their card for each answer.  The teacher can then quickly scan the room their smartphone and get the results of their students answers.  The app then shows the teacher which students missed the question and what answer these students put.  This way the teacher can tailor their instruction to help fix any misconceptions.

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Twitter allows individuals to create a free poll with up to 140 characters in the polling question.  They also allow the poll creator to create up to four poll choices with up to 25 characters in each choice. Teachers can easily use these polls to allow students to quickly answer a quick question  or give their opinion on how they feel about a topic or lesson.  For instance, if a teacher has just finished teaching a math lesson and she wants to know how well the students about the content, then she can create a quick twitter poll for the students that would require them to just log in their account and click on their choice. Another option that a teacher may use this for would be to have their students answer a quick multiple choice question about any given subject. Both of these options helps the teacher see how well his or her students know the given content. The poll creator has the option to create the poll's duration, so they can choose when they want their students to answer the question by. The students will not be able to see one another's answers, so they will not feel uncomfortable with their answers. Once the poll is over, the results will be shown and the winning choice will be in bold on a bar graph with the percentages to the left of the results.