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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

Making a QuizPort test


Now, we are going to make our own QuizPort reading test. Our test will have two vocabulary tests and one reading test. We will have an Entrance page, a series of three tests, and an Exit page.

On the Entrance page, we will give our students a description of the activities and explain the test structure and content. Since we are making a reading and vocabulary test, we will also include our reading passage here. However, if you use QuizPort for some other type of test, you may want to adjust how you set up the Entrance page.

After the Entrance page, we will have three HotPot activities, a JCloze, a JMatch, and a JQuiz.

After the final activity, the students will be directed to the Exit page with a closing message from us.

For our QuizPort settings, we will do the following:

  1. Using the Specific text setting, we will name the QuizPort Dutch Masters Test. We will leave the rest of the first section alone for now.

  2. We will click on the Show Advanced in the Display section to display...