# Assessment ## ![](/files/CfV2ibdY8kZDXg1v4Q7v) Intro The **Assessment activity** allows teachers to create exams using a variety of questions types. This activity is ***primarily an assessment activity*** to evaluate the students. However, the Assessment activity in LAMS is not just another assessment engine. It has a set of features that will allow you to **test students individually or in teams/groups**. When **testing students as teams** -after they have submitted their answers, as teacher you are able to share the answers of each team across teams and get each team to defend their answer. This is a great way for students to learn from each other as they **share their knowledge and perspective** -putting you in a **facilitator role, rather than as content expert**. ### Why do I want to use Assessment? 1. Ask students questions to **assess on a particular topic/subject**.
2. Use assessment marks/scores to determine **adaptive learning paths** for your students.
3. Aside from testing students individually, **you can also assess students in teams,** then share teams answers and get each team to defend/expose their reasoning.
4. As assessment is **integrated with the Question Bank (QB)**, all your questions will automatically stored in the QB for future use, analytics and item analysis not just for a single exam but across all exams where you have use a question! Oh, and the QB also supports question versioning!
5. All assessments provide you **real-time analytics** as the students are going through the test. So even before the students finish the exam, you already know where their difficulties and knowledge gaps are.
6. Gives you **extensive time management power to manage your exams**. You can set relative or absolute time limits and add particular extensions for students and/or teams.\ {% hint style="success" %} **Educational Insight** Assessment is very powerful to assess students. It provides you with real-time analytics and when using appropriately, it can help you foster knowledge sharing and peer-learning. As you can reuse questions in multiple exams, you can track the complete live cycle of a question! {% endhint %} ### What can I use Assessment for? Assessment can be used for any learning activity where you want to **evaluate the students**' knowledge, understanding or skills. As you can also assess students in teams, you can **foster knowledge sharing and peer-learning** within each team and then across teams as well. *Pedagogies that use Assessment:* Problem-Based Learning, Think-Pair-Share, [Team-Based Learning,](https://docs.lamsfoundation.org/tbl) Inductive learning, etc. ### How does it work? You (teacher) can create simple or complex assessment exams based on the variety of question types. Students then are presented with the questions and according to the settings and configuration you have pre-determined. After the students answer the questions, they might be able to defend their answers to others or simply get their score/marks. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.lamsfoundation.org/lams/tools/assessment.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.