Tehnology tools used for assessments may include online quizzes, virtual labs, digital portfolios, and web quests, and track changes on essays ans assignments, among others. Technology tools can simplify assessments and enable question pools for randomized questions and unique tests each time, as well as being capable of deployment at any place and time and being automatically graded The downfalls include the quality of the technology affecting the assessment, the time-consuming nature of developing test banks and the need to word questions very carefully. Evaluating technologies for use in assessments should include whether students received effective feedback and found the technology easy to use as well as whether the instructor found it easy to use.
