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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

Essay


Essay questions are perhaps the easiest of the questions to create. These questions allow you to see what the student knows or feels about the question. One of the drawbacks to using Essay is that they require you to read each response individually and manually score them, something we will talk more about later.

Some people use Assignment to give essay questions. Assignment allows you to create essay questions in a faster, easier, and many say, better way. However, if it does have a place in your quizzes, that place is for when you want to time your students' writing, and this is something that can't be done with Assignment.

When creating Essay questions, it is important to clearly tell the students what you are looking for in the response. How many words you are looking for, that they must follow a specific essay format, and so on. If you are able to clearly spell out these types of things, the Essay format will be a valuable addition to your tests.

Step 1

We will create a new quiz...