For the most part, of course, any sort of assessment — quizzes and tests, say — occur within the LMS. This allows for scoring and posting of grades in the gradebook. But sometimes you might want to give students the option to submit feedback anonymously. As far as I know, this is not possible through the LMS, and even if it ostensibly were possible, I suspect that students (being no dummies) would be skeptical as to just how anonymous it was.

Thus you would want to look at outside resources. A popular one for surveys and questionnaires is the old standby Survey Monkey. I have also used Google Forms, which offers similar features.

By the way, Google Forms also allows you to require that respondents identify themselves, so you can use it for informal quizzes. (How to ascertain the integrity of online assessments is a topic for another post, or twenty.)

Here’s an example of a quiz on Google Forms. I created this quiz for a module in my online English 101 class. Students have already read an essay and watched a video, and then are asked to respond to items on the content. This took a little time to create because I hadn’t used G forms before so there was a slight learning curve. I actually had to Google how to share the form (click on “Send”, duh).

As I said earlier, I think I would only use this kind of 3rd-party quiz or questionnaire for anonymous surveys or evaluations. The LMS I use (Blackboard) includes quiz/test functions, so for general uses there would be no reason to go outside the LMS.