Résumé:
With the increasing rate of literacy, online teaching and learning have seen a new adopted trend and soon online assessment to these new modes of instruction has become more prevalent Hence, educationalists have thought of designing courses, with their assessment levels and typology, together with finding out appropriate training strategies on how to assess students’ formative and summative achievement progress. Exploratory, descriptive and qualitative methods in the field have proven the effective efficiency of assessment on line as it gained much time, measured well the students’ degree of progress and has given students another motivating opportunity and fillip to follow their teachers’ notifications and corrections on the spot. And though online assessment is not the privilege of every distant student; yet, it has helped a lot of learners integrate technology at their proper will using the websites, moodle, teleconferencing and group discussion .It has also helped teachers to identify areas of their learners’ misunderstanding. Teachers’ effective feedback has helped students a lot in clarifying what good performance is and what quality information is expected about their learning. Various assessment tools as portfolios, quizzes, tests, essays, reports and rubrics completion have been used and where students have shown a great talent in their use, adaptability and efficiency.
