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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

Forum-based writing portfolios


Using Moodle's Forum is one way to create simple portfolios of your students' writing, and it is an easy way to integrate portfolio-type work into your course. Students will be able to upload images, audio, video, and files, and classmates and teachers will be able to comment.

Step 1

First, you will need to set up the Forum for the portfolios. Open your course and create a new Forum with an appropriate title; here we will use 'Writing Portfolio'. In the Forum Introduction, we will write an explanation of the purpose and use of the Writing Portfolio Forum.

When you are setting this up, make sure to change Forum Type to Each person posts one discussion. This will allow each student to set up their own thread to work with. This thread can continue throughout the course, used for a series of assignments, or it can be used for a single assignment.

For grading, and this will depend on your needs for your class, but for now, we will use the Count of ratings, which is...