ClassMarker.

Prior to this course I had never heard of ClassMarker, however, after making my account with the service I must say that it is a tool that I will definitely use within my future classroom environment. ClassMarker allows you to develop your own quizzes for your class and allows each student to complete the quiz, and it will automatically mark their quiz for you and give you the results. Personally, I think that this is a brilliant tool as it would not only be engaging for our digital native students as they are being assessed using technology (Prensky, 2001), rather than, using a paper and pen, but it is also efficient to use and saves time for teachers, as they would no longer have to individually mark each students quiz.

Although younger students do not complete many quizzes, I think that ClassMarker would be great for older students as their teacher could develop a quiz on the website and use it as part of their student’s formative assessment, as students could test their knowledge which they have learnt and find out the areas which they need to further revise in order to enhance their learning (Central Queensland University, 2009).

I have created a trial quiz for my list of students based upon my unit of work Australian Animals in Captivity which was previously uploaded onto my Mahara account. If you would like to take my quiz you can do so by clicking the following link.

http://www.classmarker.com/quiz/?test_id=58079

Reference List:
Central Queensland University (CQU). (2009). FAHE11001- Managing E-Learning: Moodle site. Rockhampton, QLD, Australia: Scot Aldred.

Prensky, M. (2001). Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants. Retrieved July 23, 2009, from
http://www.marcprensky.com/writing/Prensky%20%20Digital%20Natives,%20Digital%20Immigrants%20-%20Part1.pdf