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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

Workshop features


Before we begin to create our Workshop, we will look at the options Workshop has available and talk about their functions. Workshop is different from Quiz and Lesson, in that there are no sections used to divide fields into categories. We will be looking at all the options in the order they are presented, so we know exactly what we can do in Workshop.

Submission Title

This is where we name our Workshop and enter what the link in the course will be labelled. There is no difference between Submission Title and the Title we have seen in Lesson and Quiz.

Description

Enter the description of the Workshop's aim and what the students are expected to do here. All students entering the Workshop will see this, so it is important to include here a detailed outline of what they are to do, including assignment requirements or anything else that is expected of the students.

Since this is just like the Description in Quiz and Lesson, you can do the same things including: adding images,...