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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

Setting up Voiceshadow


Now that we know how to embed video, we are going to get our students to watch a video on Turkish from YouTube and shadow the speaker.

  1. First, go to YouTube and find a video you want to use. Once located, click on the Embed button and it will reveal the HTML for embedding the selected video.

  2. Open Voiceshadow and enter the title. Here we will use Shadowing the months in turkish.

  3. In the Summary, we will enter the assignment instructions and how it will be graded.

  4. In the Add HTML to Embed Video File, we will include the HTML we got from the YouTube Embed button.

  5. In the Record audio section, we will do nothing except assign a grade for the activity. We will use 5.

  6. Leave all the Common module settings as they are.

  7. When finished, click on the Save and display button.

We will be brought to a page that mirrors the Voiceboard's List of audio recordings page. At this point, there will be nothing here, because nothing has been added yet. From here, we will click on the Record audio tab...