Assessment and workload - using tech to help the balance

I've been teaching for 8 years and as any teacher knows, there is no silver bullet when it comes to assessment. I've never got it 100% right, and still don't, but I think I'm getting closer. Here is how I am using tech to cover my assessment bases this year:

Daily:
I use iDoceo on my iPad, which is an amazing app. I import my classes at the start of the year and input my lesson objective for that particular lesson. I then assess each student with a drop down menu that I have created in iDoceo. It's a pretty simple drop down consisting of 5 levels, starting at 'confident' and ending with 'no evidence'. I can build up a picture of what my students can and can't do over the academic year. iDoceo also colour codes each level and can turn it into a percentage if I actually wanted to crunch some hard numbers.
I find that doing it this way ensures that I look at every student's work at some stage in the lesson as I need to enter one of these levels per lesson for every student. It isn't time consuming as the way the iDoceo app works makes it very quick indeed. Also because you are marking during the lesson, in front of the student, I find I am marking more accurately as I'm not relying on my memory to remember if someone can or can't do something!

Weekly:
I'm using Google Forms to make quizzes for each of my classes. I then use a script in Google Forms called Flubaroo which automatically marks each student's work AND emails them the results! This for me is massive for workload as I don't have to individually mark each answer correct or not. Using Flubaroo and Google Forms in this way also gives you data like the % score for each student and which questions they got right or wrong. You can then tell from the data if you need to go over any questions that most students got wrong.
As an added organisational point I make a copy of each quiz for each class, rather than giving all the students in all classes the same quiz file. I find that this makes working out who has/hasn't done the homework much easier.
To find out more on Flubaroo, there is an excellent, and brief video explaining how it works here:
http://www.flubaroo.com/instructional-videos
Half termly/termly:
This is my more formal assessment where I mark each bit of work at the end of a unit. The most effective and personal way I have found is to use audio marking, using an app like Recordium. Match this with Google Apps and you can share your audio feedback quickly and effectively, much more so I find than a traditional written comment.
I have blogged about how I do this here:
http://practicaledutech.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/ipad-google-apps-mark-large-volumes-of.html
So, there is no right way to assess as it is a very individual process, but this is what works for me!

Instant personal Dropbox for your students with Google Apps

This is a useful workflow if you are a Google Apps user which I borrowed from someone else and tweeked a little. It allows you to have a shared folder with each student you teach, with very little effort on your, or their part:

1 - In your Google Drive, create a folder. I teach ICT so I have created one called 'Assessment'. Inside this, I have created a folder for each of the classes that I teach. For this example, let's say I teach a class called 8A.

2 - Instruct the students of 8A to go to Google Drive and create a folder called "ICT their name". The 'their name' bit is handy as you can quickly see who's folder is who's. get them to share the folder with you.

3 - Go to "shared with me" in your Google Drive and move all of the shared student ICT folders into the 8A folder in assessment.

Viola, you now have a shared folder where you can access student work at anytime, provide feedback and so on.