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Moodle 1.9 Testing and Assessment

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Moodle 1.9 Testing and Assessment

Overview of this book

Moodle is a free Course Management System (CMS), which is a web application that educators can use to create effective online learning sites. Moodle also has many effective modules and assessment techniques for testing that can be used for any subject. Computer-based testing is inevitable in any online teaching course. As you consider the benefits of computer-based testing you will want to easily create tests and instantaneously assess them.Moodle 1.9 Testing and Assessment puts together a variety of modules and activities that allow us to easily create and deliver a variety of tests on any subject. It is a step-by-step guide that will assist you to develop and assess simple as well as complex quizzes and tests.You will initially learn to create different types of questions such as short answer questions, multiple choice questions, and so on. After you have learned to create questions, you will learn to integrate all of them in a Moodle quiz to create a complete test by tweaking the various options. Next you will learn to create and set up a Lesson, which you can use to create simple vocabulary or flash card tests or complex tests. You will learn to test and assess students through work submitted using Moodle Workshop. This module also provides an opportunity for self- and peer-assessment of your student's work. Then you will learn skill-specific tests such as listening, reading, speaking, and writing tests that will help you to judge a person's ability in a particular field. At the end of this book you will learn how you can grade tests using Moodle Gradebook. This hands-on guide helps you to establish optimal tests that can be graded using Moodle modules.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Moodle 1.9 Testing and Assessment
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Accessing Gradebook


To access Gradebook, you need to go to the Administration section and click on the Grades link. It is located on the left side of the screen and looks like this:

As you can see, Grades is the fourth option from the top, between Assign roles and Groups.

Once you have clicked on this link, you will be taken to the Gradebook and what is known as the Grader report. Note that this is the Teacher View.

As you can see, we have enrolled our three imaginary students. We can also see that there is no grade for any of them yet, since we have not created any Grade Items. We will do this shortly. First, I'd like you to look at the Choose an action drop-down menu located directly under the Home | Using Gradebook breadcrumbs. This drop-down menu has all the possible actions we can take in the Gradebook, and I'd like to take a few pages to discuss all the options available here.

View

View is the first section visible in the drop-down menu. As you can see here, there are three options...