Creating Online Assessment Using Moodle CMS

Creating Assessment using Moodle Course Management System

Neny Isharyanti, M.A.

What are your problems in assessing students’ performance?

How Moodle can help you assessing students’ performance?

Grade management Time management Students’ autonomy Peer-assessment ‘Green’ assessment

What features of Moodle that you are familiar with?

What do you want to know from those features?

Some features of Moodle that can be used for assessment

Assignments Forum Quizzes

Assignments

The uses of assignments Offline activity Upload a single file Online text Advanced uploading files

How to create an assignment in Moodle?

Let’s give it a try! Please create:

Advanced uploading of files Online text Upload a single file Offline Activity

Look at your handout for details.

Grading an assignment

Three ways of viewing an assignment In the Assignments in Activities Block (left column) In the Course Content (middle column) In the Grade in Administration Block (left column)

Click on the assignment Fast, bulk grading directly on the assignment page Slow, individual grading click the individual grade link

for each student

Creative Practices in Assignments

Offline activity Presentation Participation Non-digital portfolio

Uploading file(s) Essays Photos Presentation files Case studies (background & data as resources, problem

statement as assignment description, discussions in forum)

Forum

The uses of forum Peer assessment Q & A for problem solving FAQ Social forum Interviews debate

Assessable uses of forum Peer Assessment offline activity Q & A offline activity Participation offline activity

How to Create a Forum?

Let’s give it a try! Create a standard forum. See your handout for details.

Effective Uses of Forum

Providing prompts Questions Unfinished sentences

Encouraging participation A discussion of a case A presentation on reading Merging f2f and online discussion

Grading forum Clear criteria for assessment quantity vs. quality

Quizzes

The types of questions that Moodle can handle: Multiple choice True/false Short answer Numerical Matching Random short-answer matching Calculated Essay Embedded answers (Cloze)

Effective Quiz Practices

Question course goal Multiple questions important ideas Wrong answer common misconception Different kinds of questions

Recall comprehension questions application and analysis questions

Test your questions item analysis

How to Create a Quiz?

Two parts of a quiz Quiz Body – the container Questions Pools – the questions

First, let’s create the quiz body See your handout for details

Then, create the question pools Create 1 question for each type of question See your handout for details

Then, add the questions to the quiz

Grading Quiz

Three ways of viewing an assignment In the Quizzes in Activities Block (left column) In the Course Content (middle column) In the Grade in Administration Block (left column)

Click on the Quiz Overview Regrade Manual Grading Item Analysis

Grade Management

To view Grade in Administration Block Set Preferences Advanced Features

View Grade Set Preferences Set Categories Set Weight Set Grade Letters Grade Exceptions

Contact

Neny Isharyanti [email protected] [email protected] http://neny.edublogs.org portfolio