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Moodle E-Learning Course Development

By : William Rice, William Rice
Book Image

Moodle E-Learning Course Development

By: William Rice, William Rice

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Moodle E-Learning Course Development Third Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
8
Evaluating Students with Quizzes
10
Collaborating with Wikis and Glossaries
Index

Understanding assignments


If you want the student to do or create something and then grade the results, you want in an assignment.

What you can do with an assignment

The options in the assignment activity give you many choices in how to run the assignment. Before we look at how to create an assignment, let us look at what you can do with it and what features you want to use in the assignment.

Types of work students can submit

All of the following options can be combined. For an assignment, you can require the students to:

  • Submit one or more digital files

  • Write something

  • Do something outside of Moodle

Each of these is covered in a subsection below.

Submitting a digital file

Anything that can be uploaded on a computer can be uploaded into an assignment. However, Moodle will enforce its limit on the size of uploaded files. For example, if you require your students to create a digital photograph, this option might work well.

Remember that a Moodle site is configured with a limit on the size of files that...