Assessment tools: Creation of online quizzes in moodle
Having worked with quizzes inside moodle in the past, this section was not as daunting for me as for some. The way my course is set up, the majority of assessment occurs outside of the moodle site within our Descubre Supersite. Assessment pertaining to module coursework in conducted in this manner. All review, final assessments and module progress reports are developed and administered within the moodle site.
The progress quizzes for each module were simple to design due to the consistent nature of each unit. The review questions took longer to develop but after initial questions have been made, it becomes simply a matter of importing pertaining questions into the review. One of the great features of moodle quizzes is the ability to create a large exam bank of questions and categorize them according to topic for future use.
Below is a summarized version of some of the challenges and opportunities associated with assessment tools within moodle.
Challenges:
- Increased in-put / formatting time
- Inability to assess higher level thinking skills using auto-assessment
- For summative assessments, you can secure browser security, but there still needs to be an invigilator present to ensure additional materials are not brought into the exam.
Opportunities:
- Students receive immediate feedback on quizzes
- Students are able to complete quiz multiple times (teacher has the option to collect highest grade, thus pushing students to achieve excellence, or to take first grade and allow students to go back and re-take the test for review)
- Assessments can be time released (students that are away from school can still take the test at this time as it is online)
- Tests can be taken using a secure browser (students can not bring in information from other sources)
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