In this presentation Dr. Ramesh Sharma discussed Moodle course management system and how teachers can implement assessment for evaluating the progress and performance of students. In addition, he shared various tools that can be integrated for such assessments on Moodle.
4. Points for discussion…
• What are the purposes of assessment?
• What is online assessment?
• What are different tools for online assessment
in Moodle?
• Other issues…
5. Online Assessment: Purposes
• Diagnostic – tell about learner’s prior learning
and provides a base line for understanding
how much learning achieved after an activity
is done.
• Formative – takes place during learning
activity and tells about gap on what learner
has learnt with what difficulty is being faced.
• Summative – at the end of a term or course
6. Types of assessment in Moodle
• Quiz
• Assignment
• Wikis
• Workshop (peer assessment)
7. Also used are…
• Forums
• Glossaries
• Plugins for HotPotatoes (quiz creation tool)
• Gradebook
27. Assignments
• Different types of assignments supported…
– Upload a single file
– Uploading more files (limit set by teacher)
– Online text submission
– Offline text submission
47. Summary
• Moodle offers different assessment strategies
• There are many tools for e-assessment to
select from
• Decide what kind of assessment you want
• Select suiting to different learning outcome
levels
48. View recording at http://www.wiziq.com/online-class/892089-assessment-through-moodle
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