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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

Test introduction


On the first page of the test, we will use a Description question to give the students an overview of the test. On this page of the test, we will tell the students what types of questions to expect, how many questions they will have, the time limit, when they can check their results and see our feedback, and what to do if they have any questions.

Once we have created the text in the Description question, we Save and Preview it to make sure it looks like we want it to. The first page of the test is as follows:

Tip

Save without Submitting

This caution cannot be repeated enough! You can include it in your quiz introduction or verbally, but make sure your students are clicking on the Save without Submitting buttons every 5 to 10 minutes. If anything happens during the test, such as power loss or Internet failure, all their work will be lost unless they save their work. You must stress the need to do this to your students!