My Experience with Moodle Quiz<\/p>\n
Since I have never used Moodle before, I had to spend some time getting familiar with the program and its functionality.\u00a0 I found it really easy to navigate and I really liked the fact that the buttons tell you what the functionality is when you hover over them, similar to MS Office.<\/p>\n
The flexibility in question types in Moodle surprised me.\u00a0 The diversity in questions could help me structure a quiz to meet the Ministry\u2019s guidelines to assess in the following categories:\u00a0 Knowledge, Thinking, Communication and Application.\u00a0 For example, I could select multiple choice or matching questions if I wanted to assess knowledge, and short answer or essay questions if I were interested in assessing application of concepts.\u00a0 In addition, the choice in question types would allow me to structure assessments that would \u201cprovide very high quantity and quality of assessment, while maintaining student interest and commitment\u201d (Anderson, 2008, p. 51).<\/p>\n
I liked Moodle\u2019s use of icons to differentiate question types.\u00a0 This helped me locate questions I wanted to edit more easily.\u00a0 Also, I now appreciate the importance of naming questions in as detailed a manner as possible.\u00a0 Originally, I wasn\u2019t as detailed as I should have been in naming questions and I ended up spending a bit of time trying to locate a particular question that I wanted to edit.\u00a0 While it takes some time to create questions and store them in the question bank, I can see the benefits of having a bank of questions from which to draw either for formative or summative assessment.<\/p>\n
The ability to provide feedback to students at different points in the quiz was helpful.\u00a0 I also appreciated the fact that I could provide my own feedback for each question or for the quiz overall.\u00a0 The ability to provide feedback is especially useful for formative assessments when students need to know what areas need more work.\u00a0 In fact, formative assessment should provide feedback to \u201cgive each student guidance on how to improve\u201d (Black & Wiliam, 2001, p. 8).\u00a0 In addition, having the flexibility to allow multiple attempts at a (formative) quiz would allow students to gauge their understanding of a particular topic, similar to what I have done by taking our course\u2019s HTML quiz a couple of times.<\/p>\n
References<\/p>\n
Anderson, T. (2008). Towards a Theory of Online Learning. <\/em> In: T. Anderson & F. Elloumi (Eds.), Theory and Practice of Online Learning<\/em>. Edmonton AB: Athabasca University. Accessed online 1 June 2011 http:\/\/www.aupress.ca\/books\/120146\/ebook\/02_Anderson_2008_Anderson-Online_Learning.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n Black, P. & Wiliam, D. (2001). Inside the black box: Raising standards through classroom assessment.<\/em> Retrieved from http:\/\/ weaeducation.typepad.co.uk\/files\/blackbox-1.pdf<\/cite><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My Experience with Moodle Quiz Since I have never used Moodle before, I had to spend some time getting familiar with the program and its functionality.\u00a0 I found it really easy to navigate and I really liked the fact that the buttons tell you what the functionality is when you hover over them, similar to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3590,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec565schell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec565schell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec565schell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec565schell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3590"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec565schell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec565schell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec565schell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions\/41"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec565schell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}