Online assessment in distance education can make use of Internet technologies that allow greatly increased communication, interactivity, and collaboration compared to the traditional classroom or paper-and-pencil forms of distance education. CMC allows synchronous and asynchronous, one-to-one, one-to-many, and many-to-many communication; its use of text-based communication promotes thoughtful and reflective commentary (Schrum 1998). The interactivity possible in online continuous assessment, either with the online environment or with instructors or other learners, helps engage learners in active application of knowledge, principles, and values and provides them with feedback that allows their understanding to develop (Hazari and Schnorr 1999). Hence, online assessment can play an important part in a constructivist learning experience.