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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

Previewing the test


Now we will look at the test to see what we have. The first thing we notice is that all the questions are shuffled. This is not what we want. We need to have the descriptions first, to explain to the students what they need to do. We have two options for what to do here.

The first option is simple. We can Update Quiz and turn off the Shuffle function. If we do this, the questions will be placed exactly as they appear in the Questions in this quiz area. This option is easy and is the fastest way to deal with this issue. The drawback is that every student will have the test given in the exact same order, which may increase cheating. On the upside, the responses inside the answers are shuffled, so some variation is still included in the test.

The second option takes extra time, but the effort can we worth it. We will still be turning off the shuffle function, but we'll be settingup additonal categories from which to draw random questions.

Step 1

First, we will turn off the...