In this 21st century, teachers are required to empower students' Higher-Order Thinking Skills (HOTS). Unfortunately, there are still many teachers who have difficulty compiling HOTS questions. The purpose of this community service activity was training in formulating HOTS-based online test instrument for Senior High School (SHS) teachers in Sekayu City. Community service activities were carried out by a team from the Biology Education Study Program, Sriwijaya University through workshops. The workshop was held at Public SHS 2 Sekayu for two days. From the service activities that have been carried out, there has been an increase in the knowledge and skills of teachers in designing and making HOTS-based online evaluation tools. This activity also produced a HOTS question collection document and a google form link containing an online based HOTS question instrument. Based on the series of service activities, it can be concluded that the competence of teachers to conduct online-based HOTS evaluation activities has increased.

The advancement of Internet-based technologies and the new media ecology have contributed to the increased reliance on online sources in both the academic and the non-academic contexts. This study investigated how students evaluated the credibility of online information and the bias that might have influenced the content of the information. 152 EFL students responded to the online critical literacy assessment, which consisted of six tasks: evaluating the credibility of visual information, evaluating WhatsApp message, comparing and evaluating websites, distinguishing between news and sponsored content, evaluating the credibility of claim in a YouTube video, and evaluating an Instagram post. The results of the study showed that the students were easily deceived by the online information they read from various online media. They particularly struggled to detect the unsubstantiated claims from the YouTube video. Despite being a generation Z who frequently used social media and various online sources in their daily lives, the students could not critically evaluate the claims posted on these platforms. Implications of this study include the need to incorporate critical digital literacy in the language skill courses and deliberate exposure to strategies in evaluating online sources.

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Pandemi Covid-19 telah mengubah hampir semua segi kehidupan, tidak terkecuali pelaksanaan pembelajaran di sekolah yang semula dilaksanakan secara tatap muka menjadi tatap maya. Peningkatan kompetensi guru dalam penggunaan Google Classroom sebagai aplikasi pembelajaran daring dilakukan melalui kegiatan Pengabdian Kepada Masyarakat dengan menggunakan metode pendampingan bagi guru IPA di Kota Palembang. Khalayak sasaran berjumlah 71 guru. Pelatihan secara tatap maya terstruktur melalui aplikasi zoom meetings pada bulan Juni 2021. Hasil evaluasi yang dilakukan menunjukkan bahwa terjadi peningkatan pemahaman terhadap pemanfaatan Google Classroom sebagai media yang digunakan untuk melaksanakan penilaian pada pembelajaran IPA di Kota Palembang. Selain itu, peserta mengungkapkan bahwa pemanfaatan Google Classroom dapat digunakan untuk melaksanakan kuis, mendorong siswa untuk belajar lebih aktif, meningkatkan motivasi belajar siswa, mempermudah guru dalam melaksanakan evaluasi pembelajaran lebih efektif, dan dapat memaksimalkan pemberian stimulus yang tepat untuk soal-soal berpikir tingkat tinggi.  The Covid-19 pandemic has changed almost all aspects of life, including implementing learning in schools, from face-to-face to online. Improving teacher competence in using Google Classroom as an online learning application is carried out through Community Service activities using mentoring methods for science teachers in Palembang City. The target audience is 71 teachers—virtual face-to-face training through the zoom meetings application in June 2021. The evaluation results showed an increased understanding of the use of Google Classroom as a medium used to carry out assessments of science learning in Palembang City. Participants revealed that Google Classroom could be used to carry out quizzes, encourage students to learn more actively, increase student learning motivation, make it more accessible for teachers to carry out teaching evaluations more effectively, and maximize the provision of appropriate stimuli for higher-order thinking questions.