EFL students’ views on Edulastic as a school final summative e-assessment tool

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Online platforms have gained widespread acceptance in educational assessment in a post-COVID world, with Edulastic as one of the choices. This research aims to explore students’ perspective of Edulastic as the e-assessment tool, and the obstacles they experience while using this platform during school final summative assessment. The data were gathered using semi-structured interviews with six 12th graders of a private school in the town of Purwokerto, Indonesia. The data were processed qualitatively using thematic analysis. The results show that the participants had positive thoughts of Edulastic. It assists them by doing English assessments comfortably attributable to its flexibility and practicality. It also supports a system that prevents cheating among the students. However, they faced challenges with it due to inadequate equipment, including the device’s battery life issue, insufficient memory capacity and poor internet connectivity. To sum up, besides having a positive perception of the e-assessment, the students also experienced unavoidable problems before and while working on the e-assessment. The result of the study suggests Edulastic platform is a smart choice for educational institutions implementing online