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When you use innovative digital assessment strategies, you also give your students an opportunity to become familiar with and practice the digital communication skills that will prepare them for the 21st century workforce. Use this tutorial to learn how to use Acrobat as your digital assessment tool.
Assessment is a critical part of the learning process. Formative assessment helps guide students toward a shared understanding or performance goal and provides focus as students complete major milestones in their coursework. Summative assessment ensures that students have met the final goals of their projects and achieved a desired level of understanding or performance.
Learning management systems and other digital communication tools have changed how coursework is distributed and submitted, and now we have powerful new tools for reviewing and grading digital coursework. Digital assessment is particularly appropriate for grading collections of projects or e-portfolios, semester- or year-long projects, and projects that contain several different file types. When you use innovative digital assessment strategies, you also give your students an opportunity to become familiar with and practice the digital communication skills that will prepare them for the 21st century workforce.
As you design and prepare coursework and subsequent assessment, consider the advantages to using Adobe® Acrobat® 9 Pro for digital assessment of student work. Learn how with this tutorial.
