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Instant Moodle Quiz Module How-to

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Instant Moodle Quiz Module How-to

Overview of this book

Enhancing learning experience and improving student success has many instructors searching for effective tools. Moodle Quiz is just such a tool to aid instructors in creating powerful assessment experiences for their learners. "Instant Moodle Quiz Module How-to" is a practical, hands-on guide that provides you with a number of clear step-by-step procedures, which will help you take advantage of the real power that is behind Moodle Quiz, and give you a good grounding in using it to achieve effective assessment in your courses.This book covers how Moodle Quiz module can be used to create effective assessment FOR and OF learning in your courses. It will take you through a number of clear, practical recipes that will help you harness the power of Moodle Quiz quickly and painlessly.You will begin by learning to set up clear categories, carefully designed questions and helpful feedback to create the question bank that is the foundation of Moodle Quiz. Once you have configured the quiz and specified your security requirements, you can select questions by hand or randomly. Once learners have completed the quiz you can interact one-on-one or examine statistical data for large groups using the easily generated reports.Using "Instant Moodle Quiz Module How-to" you will learn how to create effective quizzes and how to provide meaningful feedback and evaluate results.
Table of Contents (7 chapters)

About the Author

Joan Coy has taught High School Math and Science in Canada for over 30 years. She is currently the Principal of PAVE, a Grade 4 to 12 online school (which is using Moodle as the LMS). Being a Moodle Certified Teacher, she administers on the PAVE site, and has taught online Moodle training courses with Open2Know. Joan chairs an Alberta wide educator group for the purpose of sharing Moodle courses and best practices, and as well, serves on the Program Committee for the Canadian Moodlemoot. This is all part of her passion for this open source virtual learning environment. She has presented provincially, nationally, and internationally on topics related to teaching mathematics, online education, Moodle, and assessment.

Aside from working, Joan is part of a landscaping tree farm in Northwestern Alberta with her two children. She enjoys painting, making stained glass, travelling, skiing, and gardening in her free time.