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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

Voiceboard


Voiceboard is a new module for Moodle that is still in its beta stages, but offers some excellent options for testing speaking as well as offering self, peer, and teacher evaluations. The setup for this activity is very basic and is very similar to the NanoGong activity we just looked at. The difference between Voiceboard and NanoGong is that the Voiceboard activity offers the ability to record multiple audio files and track the comments. The recordings will all be kept in order, under the student's name, so it allows the instructor and student to easily follow a series of speaking assignments. You can see all the posts in context and are able to go back and review previous interactions and keep track of when items were posted. Here is the setup page, which as you can see is very simple in its design as shown in the next screenshot:

General settings

Now we will take a look at the General settings for the Voiceboard module.

Name

Enter the title of the Voiceboard activity here. This...