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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

COVCELL


COVCELL means Cohort-Oriented Virtual Campus for Effective Language Learning and its development was funded by the European Commission. It is a collection of activities, with applications such as Audio Recording, Whiteboard, Chat, and a few others. The important ones for testing speaking are the Audio recorder and the Audio-Video Conference. This is similar to the Skype video conference, in that you are able to invite members of your course to a video conference. This is a very useful tool for testing speaking skills such as conversational strategies or fluency.

The big drawback to the COVCELL is that it has not been updated for a while and it is fussy about system requirements. You will need to have your system administrator install a specific server, Red5, in order to use COVCELL. If you are on a hosted server, chances are that you will not be able to use it, and since many people are using hosted servers or are not able to change the system they are using, this isn't practical...