This is another tool included on here which is not free but we think is worthy of inclusion and of your consideration.  Realsmart offers a great deal and was build around the idea of assessment for learning.

Allow your students to build online eportfolios in a very visually and intuitive way.

Provide success criteria and learning outcomes in a very visual way so that students can measure their own progress, they can upload evidence of meeting that criteria and can also recieve feedback.

Here is a link to the Realsmart website.  Click on the third video (Realsmart: your learning portfolio) for an overview of what it can offer in terms of assessment for learning

A very simple idea which does not need much explaining but an obvious way to use technology to support assessment for learning is by ensuring that students know what it is they are to be judged upon.

Provide links to success criteria online as well as a range of exemplars for students to look at.  This way they know what it is they are aiming for and have something to self assess their work and progress against.

With a Google Documents account your students can create a document or presentation and then share it with others.  Others can then either directly edit the document or provide comments on it.

The potential for using this for assessment for learning is hopefully obvious.  Either teacher feedback or peer feedback is made extremely easy once the document is shared with those people.

Another very useful thing about using Google Documents in this way is that a Google Document keeps it's history.  Every time the document is revised by someone a revision is kept.  This makes it easy for the teacher and/or student to track and see how the work has developed over time with improvements and with feedback.

The videos below will give you a good overview of how a document can be shared, comments can be provided and revisions can be used:

If you have never tried Google Documents we strongly recommend you experiment with it.  The possibilities for use within the classroom and education are tremendous.  All you need to do is to visit Google, Sign up for an account and  you will have Google Documents.

You would be  well advised to discuss Google Documents with your ICT Coordinator to see if  they can create a Google Apps for  Education account for your school so that everyone in your  institution can benefit and to make sharing and collaborating within your
establishment even easier.

Voice Thread is a fantastic tool to allow your students to get feedback/peer assessment on their work.

Students create a 'Thread' which may be them presenting a piece of work they have produced online.  They can then share this with other people who can add their 'Voices' to the thread to offer their thoughts and feedback.

Feedback can be offered in the form of text, annotations on the screen, audio, video and can even be made via a phone call!  The student who placed the work up there can then 'playback' the feedback and use it to help them to improve their work.

Here is a link to VoiceThread where you or your students can sign up for a free account (allows you to make three threads).  Below is a tutorial to give you an overview of how it works:

Example of use:

An Art Department could use this tool to exhibit artwork online.  Students then have the opportunity to peer critique each others work.  Based on the feedback students can reflect on their work and make improvements adjustments where necessary.