Classtime vs Testportal

Classtime is a web-based classroom assessment tool for checking students’ understanding during lessons. Teachers activate questions on students’ devices and see responses in real time, with class performance and per-question results available. It offers ten technology-enabled question types, including multiple choice, free text, categorizer, sorter, highlight text and hot spot. Teachers can use more than 50,000 prepared questions or create and share their own sets. Responses can be graded automatically, manually validated or scored with partial points; results can be exported as PDF or Excel reports. Sessions can be published by URL, code, student portal, Google Classroom or Microsoft Teams. The free Basic plan supports up to 40 students connected simultaneously; Premium supports up to 300 and costs $9 a month per teacher, with a 60-day trial. Google Classroom import requires Premium or a School License. Classtime says its app, server and database connections use TLS, database data is encrypted at rest, and daily backups are made. Teacher support is full on screens wider than 768 pixels; smaller mobile screens have restricted features.

Testportal is an online platform for assessing skills, knowledge, and competencies through quizzes, tests, exams, and certifications. Questions can be created from scratch, imported from PDF or Word files, or generated with AI. Supported formats include single- and multiple-choice, self-grading short answers, and descriptive open-ended questions. The service provides live respondent monitoring, results tables, statistics, progress tracking, and reports. Assessments can be shared through links or embedded on a website; its API can authorize respondents, start tests, and return results through another system. A Microsoft Teams add-in supports Azure Active Directory authorization and live webcam monitoring. Respondents do not need an account to start and can save and resume after interruptions. Testportal says up to 1,000 people can take a test simultaneously and asks customers with larger groups to contact the company. A free plan is available; paid plans start at $35 a month, and a 14-day trial is listed. The platform is based on Microsoft Azure infrastructure and lists GDPR readiness, anti-DDoS techniques, redundancy, SSL, and data encryption.