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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

Matching


The Matching questions in Moodle are probably what you'd expect. They offer a list of names, items, questions, and other items on the left-hand side of the screen and the answers in the form of a drop-down menu on the right-hand side.

Matching is a very simple item to create and can be a useful addition to tests. Instead of wasting any more time talking about Matching items, let's show you how to make one.

Step 1

First, we're going to create a new quiz. We'll call it Matching in both Name and Introduction. We're going to leave all the options set to default except for the Adaptive mode, which we will turn to turn off.

In the Question bank, we'll make sure the category is set to Default for Matching. Once these steps are done, it is time to create a new Matching question from the new question drop-down.

Step 2

For this question, we're going to be asking our students to match a list of US Presidents to their time in office. Match the US Presidents and their terms is what we will use for...