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Moodle 1.9 for Second Language Teaching

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Moodle 1.9 for Second Language Teaching

Overview of this book

That word Moodle keeps cropping up all over the place ñ it's in the newspapers, on other teachers' tongues, in more and more articles. Do you want to find out more about it yourself and learn how to create all sorts of fun and useful online language activities with it? Your search ends right here. This book demystifies Moodle and provides you with answers to your queries. It helps you create engaging online language learning activities using the Moodle platform. It has suggestions and fully working examples for adapting classroom activities to the Virtual Learning Environment. This book breaks down the core components of a typical language syllabus ñ speaking, pronunciation, listening, reading, writing, vocabulary, grammar, and assessment ñ and shows you how to use Moodle 1.9 to create complete, usable activities that practise them. Each chapter starts with activities that are easier to set up and progresses to more complex ones. Nevertheless, it's a recipe book so each activity is independent. We start off with a brief introduction to Moodle so that you're ready to deal with those specific syllabus topics, and conclude with building extended activities that combine all syllabus elements, making your course attractive and effective. Building activities based on the models in this book, you will develop the confidence to set up your own Moodle site with impressive results.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Moodle 1.9 for Second Language Teaching
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

Moodle Gradebook


The Moodle Gradebook provides a wealth of information about student grades. To access the Gradebook, click on Grades in the Administration menu on the course page.

The default view will be something like this, depending on how many quizzes and assignments you have in your course.

At a glance you can get an overview of individual grades with the option to see averages, group scores, ranges (the range of scores generated by students on a given scale), and Outcomes.

If you click on an activity (for example, Week 1 test in the graphic on the previous page), you can then get the following information:

Gradebook item

Description

Info

Gives you the description of the item that you wrote.

Results

Gives you the chance to regrade or manually grade results.

Item analysis

Gives you statistics about questions you wrote. For example:

  • Standard deviation

  • Item difficulty

  • Discrimination index

Here's what we get if we click on Item analysis:

Here's a reminder of what those terms stand for...