Edcite

Edcite is trying to do one thing well: Help educators create assignments that look and feel like PARCC and Smarter Balanced tests. After creating a free account, teachers can quickly make classes and student accounts. Assignments can be pushed out to the student accounts or with a shared link. Edcite encourages teachers to share their assignments and questions with one another, and there's a large library of teacher content available that can be searched by subject, grade, or Common Core State Standard (CCSS). Teachers can remix this content or create their own assignments. The site includes built-in tools for searching Creative Commons licensed images, YouTube videos, and other multimedia materials to spice up assignments. A library of shared images is also available, and users can add their own content to any assignment.

Edcite continually adds new questions types; currently, there are over twenty PARCC question types and twelve Smarter Balanced question types. Some featured question types include time telling, fractions, number lines, Venn diagrams, matching, and fill-in-the-blank. Each question type includes an example question, which can serve a useful model for creating your own questions. Most question types can include images, videos, and other multimedia content. Teachers can build in hints for students if they get the wrong answer the first time. There's also instant feedback for students' answers and teachers get an extensive reporting system.