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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

Random Short Answer matching


These questions are simply matching questions in which the individual questions are drawn at random from the Short Answer questions in the question category, and each student will be presented with a slightly different set of questions. Random Short Answer matching takes the Short Answer question on the left-hand side of the page and takes correct answer from each, and makes it a choice for matching on the right-hand side of the page. These questions are very simple to create and so we will jump right in so you can see what they look like. Do this one with me.

Step 1

We are going to go back to our Short Answer quiz and inside it we are going to create a new question. We will select Random Short-Answer Matching.

Step 2

You will notice that the Question Name and Question Text have both been completed for us. If you want to change the name or text, you can. We are going to leave it as it is.

We are not going to leave any General Feedback, so we scroll down to the bottom...