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What Is Online Assessment?

An online assessment is a set of questions that helps in evaluating a person's knowledge, abilities, behaviors, or characteristics. Its meaning, though, may vary depending upon where it is used and the purpose for which it is used.

For example, HRs can create online assessments to train their employees, and recruiters may use it to assess the candidates appearing for a job role, teachers may use it for assessing their students' knowledge on a particular topic, and more.

What Is Online Assessment?
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How to Create an Assessment

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  • Step 1: Pick a template or create from scratch
  • Step 2: Add questions using AI or from our library
  • Step 3: Add your logo, brand colors & theme
  • Step 4: Easily share anytime, anywhere
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How ProProfs Assessment Software Works

Easily test knowledge, measure performance, or assess skills

Our online assessment software is a dynamic tool that combines AI & machine learning for you to have a hassle-free online assessment system and viable outcomes.

Easiest Way to Create Online Assessments

Create assessments in seconds with ProProfs AI

Create online assessment tests within minutes with our assessment tool. Import questions from question bank containing 100,000+ ready-to-use questions on a variety of topics. Choose from a collection of 100k+ ready-to-use customizable assessments and edit them to create your own assessment. Choose from different types of questions such as multiple choice, fill in the blanks, true/false, etc.

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  • tick Created with Sketch. Import questions from question banks
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Automate Grading & Reporting

Save time and effort with automated grading & reporting

Create an online assessment and automate grades and scores for correct answers. With our assessment software platform, you can also give instant feedback based on the answers to make the assessment systems more engaging. Track individual learner performance in auto-generated reports. View details such as the total time taken to complete the quiz, the total number of attempts made, previous scores, and more..

  • tick Created with Sketch. Set scores for correct answers in advance
  • tick Created with Sketch. Give instant feedback
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Personalize Assessments & Certificates

Customize with your brand logo, color scheme, and fonts

Customize assessments and certificates to give them a unique personality. Our assessment tool lets you add your brand’s logo, match with your brand color scheme, pick from ready-made themes, backgrounds, and beautiful fonts. Choose from 100+ professionally designed themes available on the software. Our education assessment software platform allows you to create an assessment and reward learners with customizable completion certificates which certainly help in boosting learner participation while providing for smooth assessment systems.

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  • tick Created with Sketch. Customize with your brand color & fonts
  • tick Created with Sketch. Use 100+ professionally designed themes

Prevent Cheating & Unauthorized Access

Secure your assessments with 100+ settings and configurations

Build your own assessments, secure them and prevent cheating by configuring the security settings in our assessment tool. With our online assessment creator, you can prevent cheating by randomizing questions or changing the order of questions, so learners don’t get the same set of questions time and again. Confine the time for answering each question by setting a restricted time-window on each question. Protect assessments with passwords to avoid unauthorized access. Share private links with selected users and groups.

  • tick Created with Sketch. Randomize questions to prevent cheating
  • tick Created with Sketch. Protect assessments with a password
  • tick Created with Sketch. Restrict the time for answering questions
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Why Choose ProProfs Online Assessment Creator?

Learn why ProProfs is the #1 choice for building online assessments
  • Easy to use
    Easy to use

    ProProfs is the world’s easiest online assessment platform with a simple user-interface.

  • No installation required
    No installation required

    Get building your assessments right after you sign-up. No software installation required.

  • Works across devices
    Works across devices

    Assessments built on ProProfs perfectly fit the screen size of devices like smartphones, tablets, and laptops.

  • 70+ languages supported
    70+ languages supported

    With ProProfs, you can create online assessments in over 70 languages depending upon your audience demographics.

  • Free trial
    Free trial

    Enjoy a free trial period of 15 days before you select a paid-up plan. Explore all features and then choose a plan that suits you the most.

  • 24x7 support
    24x7 support

    Reach out to our customer support team via email, phone, or chat support. We’ll be delighted to assist you around the clock.

Everything You Need for Training Assessments

  • Assessment library
    Assessment library

    Get access to a collection of 100+ ready-to-use skill assessments curated by experts.

  • Automated grading

    Save hours of your time by pre-assigning scores to correct answers so they are graded automatically when attempted.

  • Instant feedback
    Instant feedback

    Turn mistakes into learning opportunities by assigning instant feedback for correct and incorrect answers.

  • 15+ question types

    Elevate the level of engagement with 15+ question types. Use the record video question type when assessing for hiring.

  • Question library

    Get access to a collection of 100,000+ ready-to-use questions on thousands of topics carefully picked by experts.

  • White-labeling
    White-labeling

    Bring a touch of your branding to your assessments by adding your brand’s logo, themes, colors, and more.

  • Advanced reports & analytics

    Get details like the number of correct and incorrect answers, time spent in answering, and more.

  • 100+ settings & configurations
    100+ settings & configurations

    Configure more than 100 settings like notifications, security, availability, and more to suit your requirement.

  • Completion certificates

    Issue customized completion certificates to your learners after they’ve completed the assessments.

Works Great for All Your Assessment Needs

Pre-hiring Assessment

Create skill assessment tests and choose the best candidate for a job-role in your company.

Employee Assessment

Create employee assessment tests to train and assess employees’ knowledge.

Student Assessment

Configure 100+ settings to create secure online quizzes or exams that prevent cheating.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is online assessment software?

Online assessment software comes with all the necessary features you need to create an online assessment. It lets you create & share assessments and automatically grades them too. You can create an assessment from scratch or choose a ready-made template from ProProfs assessment library and white-label your assessments by adding your brand logo. Check out this guide to better understand What is an Assessment Software?

How to create an assessment online?

Creating an assessment online is easy and takes only a few minutes. Pick a template from 100+ professionally designed ready-to-use assessment templates, feel free to make changes to the preset questions, configure quick settings, and take live. Check out this video guide to learn How to Create an Assessment Online.

Why is online assessment important?

Online candidate assessment is easy, quick, accurate, and allows candidates to access the test anytime, anywhere. An online evaluation automatically grades the assessment saving your time and effort.

What is the best assessment software?

Software that can help in the seamless creation of an online assessment easily and quickly is the best assessment software. Moreover, the best assessment software offers a simple-to-use interface and features, along with security configurations to keep your data safe.

What are the different types of assessment?

The different types of assessment are:

  • 1. Diagnostic Assessment: These are conducted before a learning/training program to assess learners’ existing knowledge levels. They help in evaluating learning needs and delivering personalized learning.
  • 2. Formative Assessment: These are conducted at various points during the learning program. They help track learning progress and boost knowledge comprehension and retention by making courses more engaging.
  • 3. Summative Assessment: These are conducted at the end of a training program to assess the overall learning progress and gauge the learning program’s effectiveness. They help you improve and fine-tune your learning programs and brainstorm better teaching/training methods.
  • 4. Refresher Assessment: These are conducted periodically starting some time after the learning program. They help in improving long-term knowledge retention.
  • 5. Skill Assessment: These are conducted during hiring processes to assess job candidates’ knowledge, technical skills, soft skills, and cognitive abilities.
  • 6. Personality Assessment: These help assess candidates’ or employees’ personality traits to check for culture fit, ensure role alignment and improve team and conflict management.

Read this blog post to learn more about the different types of assessment.

Who uses online assessment software?

People who use online assessment software include:

  • Teachers: Teachers use such software to conduct formative quizzes, exams, and other forms of student assessment. Online assessments help teachers easily assess students’ knowledge and learning progress and engage them with the learning material.
  • Trainers: Trainers use online assessments to deliver effective and targeted training. Using online testing tools, trainers can evaluate knowledge gaps and training needs, make the training program more engaging, and evaluate the effectiveness of the training program.
  • Recruiters & Hiring Managers: Recruiting professionals can use assessment software to conduct assessments to hire the best people for every role. For example, they can conduct scored tests to assess skills, knowledge & cognitive abilities and personality tests to check for work culture and role fit.
  • Coaches: Business and life coaches can use online assessments as part of their coaching program to assess coaching needs and clients’ understanding of key concepts.

How much does assessment software cost?

The subscription cost of assessment software depends on the size of your company or the group you’ll be catering to and the features you're looking for. Visit ProProfs Quiz Maker’s pricing page for current plans and offers.

Can online assessment detect cheating?

Yes. Provided you’re using top-notch software, online assessments can be equipped with several anti-cheating measures. For example, you can enable proctoring to monitor assessment takers via screen sharing and their webcam.

You can also prevent cheating in other effective ways, such as randomizing the order of questions & answer options, preventing tab & browser switching, adding time limits, and using question pooling to present different questions to different test takers.

Explore this help section to learn more about how online assessments detect and prevent cheating.

Can online assessment detect changing tabs?

Yes. Your online assessment can detect changing tabs if you enable “proctoring” under security settings. By enabling this setting, you can ask the assessment taker to share their screen before they start the assessment. Once they submit the assessment, you can check for tab switching by examining screenshots and the screen capture video available in the proctoring log in the assessment report.

Check out this help page to learn more about online proctoring.

You can also prevent tab switching by enabling the “Disable tab switching” setting under “Browser Security”. Enabling this setting starts a countdown timer whenever the assessment taker moves away from the assessment tab. If they don’t return within a few seconds to stop the timer (you can decide how many), the assessment gets auto-submitted.

Can online assessment software capture a test taker’s computer screen?

Yes. Online assessment software can capture a test taker’s computer screen if you enable “proctoring” under security settings. Enabling this setting asks the assessment taker to share their screen when they start the assessment. Once they submit the assessment, the test admin can examine screenshots and the screen video recording in the proctoring log in the assessment report.

This way, you can detect suspicious activities, such as tab switching and screen sharing with any other platform.

Check out this help page to learn more about online proctoring.

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