Formal and Information Assessment – Suggestions Needed!

How do you assess your students? Each of us does so formally and informally. I am finishing up my second book and writing a section on assessing student work and performance. Do you know of any innovative ways of assessing students or fantastic apps to do so?

I know there are apps like Zip Grade that will grade answer documents by taking a picture of the answer sheet, but I am looking more for assessing project based learning activities. I am open to all suggestions and will give credit to resources that I haven’t already included. I prefer only free tools although there are some fantastic ones that are not free.

If you think I should consider sharing the assessment resource please leave a comment below. Some of the ways I have already suggested are as follows:

blog posts
using VoiceThread
Socrative
Quizlet
Evernote (turning in documents in individual folders – is this interesting or innovative – going paperless per se)
Nearpod
Google forms usage (like Flubaroo and book reviews)
Teacher made quizzes and tests based on content presented (-i.e. – the old-fashioned way of doing things :)!)
Microsoft Mouse (?? – not sure if that is the name for the PPT plug in or not)
????????? – need your help and suggestions please!!