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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

QuizPort


Hot Potatoes is probably one of the best-known activity creation programs used with Moodle. Hot Potatoes is a Quiz-type module that offers some additional question formats like JCloze, mentioned earlier. However, Hot Potatoes looks like it is going to be replaced by Gordon Bateson's QuizPort in upcoming Moodle versions from 2.1. QuizPort, which will be renamed TaskChain, is also available for use in pre-2.0 versions.

QuizPort allows you to create a set of activities that are viewed as a single entity and are given a single grade. The design of QuizPort, which is similar to HotPot, allows you to use several different item creation tools. You can use Qedoc, Hot Potatoes, and HTML to make quizzes. We will work with Hot Potatoes activities, since so many people use it. To start with, we will look at the options available in QuizPort, but first, we need to install it.

To install QuizPort, you need to first download it. To download it, go to Moodle's Downloads and Plugins page at http...