Ed in ETEC

Unlike last week, this week’s work with Moodle’s assessment tool proved to be time-consuming and frustrating. While some features in Moodle’s quiz function are easy to use and can potentially save an instructor’s time, there are also significant shortcomings in the quiz function.

For starters, I would definitely NOT recommend using this feature to have students do any objective-answering questions. Moodle is just not “smart” enough to handle the task of marking objective answers, and yet, you cannot tell it not to if such a question exists in your quiz (though, to its credit, an instructor can override that mark).

For a complete break-down of the “thumbs up” and “thumbs down” features of Moodle’s assessment tools, please click on the Assessment Tools page within this weblog.

You can also try out my quiz in unit 2 of my Moodle course – see how much you remember from Biology 11.