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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

Summary


Lesson is a complex and somewhat quirky tool that can be useful for a variety of reasons. The Lesson module takes a lot of time to get used to, but once you start using it, and if it works for your situation, it can become an exceptional tool for teaching and learning. While its applications for testing are solid, there are issues, such as limited question types and features available from Quiz-based items that are missing in Lesson-based ones.

The ability to create simple or complex multi-branched Lessons, questions, and clusters for students to work through, is the key function of Lesson. These features are what sets Lesson apart from other applications, and, while Quiz, is a more robust testing option, Lesson certainly has its own strong points. We have only looked at using Lesson for testing here, but it was mainly created as a self-guided learning tool.

Finally, it is important to start using Lesson on a small scale, for example, starting with a limited number of branches, and...