SmarterMarks is an open-source web tool that helps teachers and students do more with online and paper assessments. SmarterMarks allows teachers to: * Quickly create assessments including multiple choice, numeric response, and written response questions. Teachers can use their own questions, or share questions with colleagues using communities and an open question bank built from items contributed by other teachers, and backed by classroom statistics. * Administer assessments on paper or online without having to duplicate work. For paper assessments, teachers can build custom response forms that can be printed and accurately scanned using the equipment already in schools. * Easily interpret assessment results to highlight student understandings and pinpoint misconceptions, and to improve assessment items from year to year. SmarterMarks helps students get more from assessments as well, allowing them to: * Collect not just a single composite grade from each assessment, but also feedback for individual learning outcomes, helping them identify specific strengths and areas for growth. * Keep feedback from online assessments in one place for easy reference as they progress through a course.If we have more time to share and chat, this is what we would like teachers to know: * SmarterMarks is easy to use, and because it requires no additional equipment is easy to implement in schools. * SmarterMarks is significantly less expensive to use than alternatives, even including the old Scantron sheets. * At the board level, we offer licenses for 75 cents per student per year. * School licenses are priced at $25 per teacher per year. * Groups of 10 or more teachers can sign up for $50 per teacher per year if their whole school is not a subscriber. * Individuals can sign up for an annual license on their own for $60 per year. * Any teacher can sign up for a free six-month trial to try it out and see if it will be an effective tool in their classroom before paying any money. * We offer a variety of tools, from simple custom response forms to full assessment generation from teacher-built templates. * For generated assessments, SmarterMarks supports administration both on paper and online, and makes it easy to switch assessments between them without changing exam format. * For both paper and online assessments, we generate personalized, outcomes-based feedback for each student, helping students easily identify strengths and areas for improvement. * For teachers, we generate detailed item statistics that allow them to improve assessments over time, ensuring that students have every opportunity possible to demonstrate their full understanding of the material. * We support a wide range of question styles in both paper forms and online generated assessments, including multiple choice, numeric response, and written response questions, with question format closely matching what students see on provincial assessments. * SmarterMarks is host to a number of teacher-built communities that allow teachers to share categorized items within a department or across the province. Communities are configurable to fill a wide variety of roles. * In addition, all accounts include access to a shared question bank that already includes more than 53,000 teacher-created questions, searchable and sorted by performance in classrooms, that allows teachers to easily update or replace assessments more regularly. * We offer lots of options for more secure online assessment, including comprehensive shuffling with a new version for each student and the ability to ask for and review student reasoning on MC/NR questions. * SmarterMarks prioritizes data security and privacy, with servers and data storage located in Canada and the ability to remove old student information in a couple of clicks.
TimezoneSouthern Alberta Teachers' Convention 2021