Örnsköldsviks Gymnasium is a large high school in the municipality of Örnsköldsvik in the north of Sweden. Kristina Renlund and Magnus Wallberg are two teachers who have been working at the school for many years, both of whom became Exam.net users more than five years ago for very different reasons.
Kristina is a language teacher and back in 2017 she was looking for an online teaching tool where her students could write, adjust and revise written texts without the inconvenience of working by hand and to mark their work more easily.
“Previously, marking students’ handwritten texts was like trying to read rune stones!”
“An online assessment platform needs to be so intuitive that everyone - all teachers and all students - can use it… Exam.net lives up to that.”
For Kristina the benefits of marking digital as opposed to handwritten texts were clear from the beginning – so much time was saved during the marking and grading process. It became far easier for a teacher to decipher tricky handwriting and write comments on a digital text. Writing texts in Exam.net also had an unexpected and very positive effect on the students. The flexibility of being able to reconsider, rearrange and rework their texts in a user-friendly digital test environment led to much improved student confidence and performance.
“I can get the most out of my students when they write a text digitally”
Teachers and students alike particularly appreciate the chat function in the Exam.net test window which enables communication between teacher and students without disturbing the other students. For Magnus, the versatility of this proved particularly useful when he was called away suddenly just before a high-stakes examination was due to take place.
“Even when I couldn’t be in the exam room, a student suggested that I could still use the chat function. So I could still support my students whilst being a passenger in my car!”
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