Can LAMS be used for assessment, or is it only for activities?
LAMS currently includes two different formal assessment tools to include in sequences – a report/essay submission tool and a quiz tool (for multiple choice questions, true/false, etc). The quiz tool can be run in either formative mode (with optional text feedback as well as scores) or summative mode (with recording of scores that can be exported from LAMS as a text file for use in spreadsheets or gradebooks). The use of these tools allows formal assessment to be added to any sequence (and at any point in the sequence, including in multiple locations). It is worth noting that due to the fact that LAMS records all activities of all students within LAMS, a teacher could decide not to use a separate formal assessment task (such as an essay) to “prove” than students have achieved a required level of learning. Rather, the teacher could assess all of the student’s activities and contributions over the life of the sequence as the basis of formal assessment. In other words, because LAMS records