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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

Quiz results


So far, we have looked at all the tabs in Quiz except for the Results tab. Without useful and well-organized reporting tools, we can't make effective inferences about the abilities or knowledge of the test taker. Moodle Quiz has a variety of built-in ways to review quiz results.

The first thing we need to do is click on the Results tab, located between the Info and the Preview tabs. Once we click on this tab, we will see four options: Overview, Regrade, Manual Grading, and Item Analysis with Overview being selected.

Overview

This feature gives us a lot of information about the test and the test taker. The first information we see is the number of attempts that have been made on the test. For our test, we will see two attempts on the test, one from each of the sample students I created. The second piece of information we see is the number of attempts allowed. For our quiz, this shows a message stating, Only one attempt per user allowed on this quiz.

Result table

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