Now that we know how to add audio and video files, let's look at some ways to test listening. When testing listening, we design questions around specific listening skills. We can test for listening comprehension, listening for details, listening for gist, listening for specific sounds, and several other listening skills. We also have pre- and post-listening tasks we can ask our students to complete. Here we will show some possible listening test ideas.
One of the simplest ways to check listening skills and have students listen for sounds is using the Quiz Module and setting up audio files with the sound you want the student to be able to hear.
For example, say we are teaching English as a Second Language students and we want to determine whether or not they are able to differentiate between ship and sheep. We can simply record the single word or sound we want the students to be able to identify into an audio file and create a two answer question. The question...