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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

Adding multiple images


Now, I mentioned earlier that if you didn't first select the image before adjusting the size, you will create an additional one and you will want to delete the old one. However, occasionally you may want to add more than a single image to a question.

The first thing you need to do is find the images you want. I have gone ahead and added a few more images to the course.

Create Folder

Now that we have uploaded several images to the course, I can show you about this function. Create Folder allows us to make different folders to hold our images. We now have several images related to fruits and vegetables, so we are going to create a folder titled Fruits and Vegetables.

The first thing we need to do is enter the name of our new folder into the textbox beside the Create Folder button. Once this is done, we click on the button and a new folder will appear above the images in the course, as seen in the next screenshot:

To place our images in the folder, we need to check each...