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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

Section introduction


Now the real fun begins! We will start to create our questions for the test. On the second page, we will be asking True/False questions about Space.

To begin with, we will create a Description question explaining the section and the types of questions to expect. In the description, we will include a sample image of how the True/False questions look and some information about the section. The example we will show them is a screenshot of a True/False question that I have already prepared and uploaded to the image folder. Once we have finished writing the description of the section, we will use the Add Image to Display drop-down and select the already prepared image. Here is what the section introduction for True/False looks like when we've finished:

Reading this section, the student quickly sees how many items they will have to answer, what the topic covered is, the type of items they will be working with, and a sample of exactly what they will be looking at. This is the...