While students use the App to complete the assessments, the teacher must create the answer sheets online via the Answer Pad website. Sign up is free and teachers can use the basic functionalities of The Answer Pad with 8 separate classes and up to 200 students for no cost. Their are teacher and school level subscriptions available which include additional functionalities like the ability to annotate student answers, and the ability to show the exam questions to students (web browser version only).
Teachers using The Answer Pad will need to create an account and then create groups for their classes. Once you create a group you can either manually enroll students, or create a code for students to enroll in your course. Teachers then need to create answer sheets for their assessments.
The Answer Pad does not show exam questions but simply the answer sheet. Think of it as an online version of the old fashioned bubble sheet, but with some great added functionalities. For example with TapIt, you can link answer sheets to Common Core standards and create standards based assessments! Answers can be multiple choice, true/false, fill in the blank, number wheel, a coordinate grid, and more. These options can be modified even further by the teacher to create a large variety of options. Unfortunately their is no option for an essay answer that the teacher would grade, this would make for a great addition to keep all the exam results in one location.
Another great feature in "Go Interactive" which only works with the iPad App. With this, teachers can send quick formative assessments to students including the ability to make quick sketches that they can submit to the teacher.
One thing that I wish you could do was somehow "lock" students into the app. I'm not sure this is something that is even a technical possibility, but it would help keep students from quick app switching to their notes or websites.
You can see all of these features in a video by The Answer Pad here:
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