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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

Overall feedback


In this section, we can give our students feedback based on the results of their test. These fields are set up with what is called a Grade boundary. A Grade boundary will give the students the feedback based on the range of scores in the boundary.

When setting up the Grade boundary, we can enter either numbers or percentages with a preset maximum grade of 100% and a preset minimum grade of 0%. By default, there are seven Grade boundaries, but we can set as many as we'd like, by clicking on Add 3 more feedback fields. Any fields that we do not want to use, we leave blank. Here is what we will enter as Overall feedback for our test:

As you can see, Grade boundary 100% has been given the Feedback Excellent!. The next Grade boundary is 90%. This value means that a student who scores between 100% and 90% will receive 'Excellent!' as their Overall feedback. A student scoring 90% to 80% will receive Good job!; 80% to 70% will receive OK!; and 70% or lower will receive You need to...