What is informal assessment for us

Informal assessment is a way of collecting data from our students, without a test or in any way of doing what is considered a formal assessment and it never has a grade, it has a scale that it might be given to the student so he/she can get better at that area. It can be done during only one class or during a period of time, it will never make formal assessment useless because informal needs formal and viceversa, to form a complete feedback that we can give to the student at the end of the class or the semester.