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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

Chapter 7. Listening Tests

So far, we have looked at options for creating tests in Moodle. What we have not looked at yet are skill-specific tests, but we will now. The first skill we will be looking at will be listening. Testing listening is an integral part of many tests, especially in language courses. Listening tests are typically used to check comprehension of lectures, discussions, dialogs, speeches, and so on; to test for the ability to listen for details such as dates, time, names, or sounds, and so on; to test things like prediction; and so on. When we make listening tests in Moodle, these are the kinds of things we will be trying to do.

In this chapter, we will work through several aspects of setting up listening files and listening tasks and show you how to integrate them into the tests you are creating. We will look at:

  • Downloading and setting up a recorder

  • Uploading audio files

  • Making the MP3 links

  • Adding listening tasks to quiz

  • Using forums with audio

  • Multiple vs. single-play files...