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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 to the Quiz


Once all the questions have been created and are part of the Question Bank, we will move them to the test. Once we have added all the items to the test, including the Introductions, we will go to the bottom of the Questions in this Quiz section of the Editing Quiz page and we see two options, Show page breaks and Show the reordering tool. We are going to click on the Show page breaks checkbox.

Showing page breaks will give us a visual representation of where each page begins and ends. It will also give us the Up or Down Arrow next to the page break lines, which enables us to move the page breaks to wherever we want. There is also a delete option, the X, in case we want to get rid of a page break. We also have the option to add more page breaks by using the Repaginate with 'X' questions per page, located at the bottom left-hand side of the page. If we decide that we want to add more pages, or we have deleted some page breaks and want them back, just select the number of...