Hi, MC! ✨ Ireland here—a senior writer and instructional designer at Maestro—popping in to share my insights on crafting more-effective learning assessments in Articulate Rise!

In this video, I share six best practices for writing assessments, straight from Maestro’s learning-design playbook. Plus, for those interested in going beyond Rise’s native components, I’ll introduce you to two innovative new assessment options available through Mighty, our Chrome extension for Rise.

I’ll walk through the learning benefits of Mighty’s Reflection and Reverse Hotspot blocks and discuss how to use them to engage learners and deepen their understanding.

Here's what we'll cover:

0:26 - Why assessments are critical to effective learning
1:03 - Best Practice #1 — Avoid questions that are too challenging
1:37 - Best Practice #2 — Avoid questions that are too easy
1:56 - Best Practice #3 — Assess the learning, not memorization
2:27 - Best Practice #4 — Make wrong answers clearly wrong
3:12 - Best Practice #5 — Let scenarios play out
4:31 - Best Practice #6 — Consider the impact of revisions
5:13 - Native assessment components in Rise
5:42 - Using Mighty’s Reflection block
7:13 - Using Mighty's Reverse Hotspot block

What questions do you have about learning assessments? What best practices do you want to share? Share your thoughts in the comments!

(P.S. I’ll have more instructional-design content for you soon, based on the results of our recent poll—stay tuned!)