Assessment that teaches,
not just measures.
Lecturers build their own quizzes, activities, and checkpoints in minutes: no admin ticket, no IT request. Students get feedback while the material is still in front of them.
The Gap
By the final exam, it is too late to teach
Summative results tell you what a cohort failed to learn after the course has ended. The checks that would have caught it earlier are usually the first thing a busy lecturer drops.
Setup cost kills the habit
If a mid-term check needs an admin request and a scheduling slot, it does not get run. The tooling has to fit inside a lecturer's week.
Feedback arrives after it matters
A grade returned three weeks later is a verdict. The same comment returned on Thursday is teaching.
Nobody sees the cohort drifting
Without regular low-stakes signal, a misunderstood concept stays invisible until it shows up in the final results.
The Loop
Build, run, read, adjust, all inside one week
Build in minutes
Pick question types, pull from your bank, set it live. No admin, no ticket, no training session.
Students take it
Delivered in the LMS or in Tomax, on any device, with as many attempts as the lecturer allows.
Feedback returns immediately
Objective items mark themselves and explanations appear while the material is still fresh.
Teaching adjusts
Cohort analytics show which concept to revisit before the next session, not after the exam.
Assessment Studio
The lecturer owns the assessment
Formative assessment only happens if the person teaching the course can set one up between lectures. Assessment Studio is built for that: no admin involvement, no scheduling request, no training course.
- Set up a quiz or activity in minutes, without an admin request
- Every question type, including essay, file upload, and coding
- Pull from personal or institutional banks in TomaBank
- Reuse the same items later in a summative paper
What lecturers actually build
Low-stakes by design. Each one takes minutes to set up and returns something the lecturer can act on before the next session.
Pre-lecture readiness checks
A short set of questions before class shows who did the reading and where to start the session.
Weekly concept quizzes
Low-stakes, auto-marked, repeatable: the routine signal that makes drift visible early.
Practice papers
Past-paper conditions without the stakes, so students calibrate before the real sitting.
Self-assessment with rubrics
Students mark their own work against the rubric the lecturer will use, then compare.
Peer review activities
Structured review of each other's submissions, anonymised and moderated.
Reflection and defense prompts
Students explain their reasoning in their own words, the same mechanic as Smart Defense.
Analytics that change next Tuesday's lecture
Results come back as teaching signal, not a dashboard to admire. Which concept the cohort missed, which students are drifting, which question was badly written.
Concept-level breakdown
See which topic the cohort missed, not just the average score.
Early-warning signals
Students trending down surface before the final exam.
Item analysis
Spot the question that was ambiguous rather than hard.
Progress over time
Track the same cohort across the whole term, quiz to exam.
The same platform as the exam that ends the course
Questions written for a Tuesday quiz go into TomaBank and come back out in the final paper. Nothing is rebuilt, and nothing is thrown away.
High-Stakes Exams
The same question banks and policy carry into secure summative sittings, online or on paper.
Explore the solutionAcademic Integrity
Smart Defense applies to coursework too, so understanding is verified long before the final exam.
Explore the solutionInside your LMS
Native integrations with Canvas, Moodle, Blackboard, and Brightspace, so students meet formative work where they already are.
“Tomax let our 30,000 tech-savvy students take Excel-based exams on their own laptops: seamless setup, instant adoption, universal delight.”
Shay Levi
Chair of Accounting, TLV University
Common questions
Questions lecturers ask us
No. Assessment Studio is designed for the lecturer to work alone: create the assessment, set the rules, publish it. Administrators keep oversight of policy and reporting without becoming a bottleneck on every quiz.
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