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.

1. Assessment through
Moodle
Ramesh Sharma
Indira Gandhi National Open University, India
18 August 2012

2. Welcome!

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

8. Questions Types
• Multiple choice
• True/False
• Short answer
• Matching
• Calculated
• Others…

9. Let’s go to our course…

10. Weekly schedule

11. How to create a quiz

12. Editing the quiz

13. Preview

14. Save the quiz

15. Preview a question

16. Editing a question

17. Save changes

18. Question Bank: Overview

19. Results…

20. Download the results…

21. As an Excel sheet…

22. Log in as a student…

24. Attempting the quiz

25. Submitting answers…

26. Summary of attempts

27. Assignments
• Different types of assignments supported…
– Upload a single file
– Uploading more files (limit set by teacher)
– Online text submission
– Offline text submission

28. Adding an activity (online text)

29. Adding a new assignment

30. Saved…

31. Link from the home page of course

32. Answering the assignment…

33. Saving the assignment…

34. Confirmation…

35. Assessment of assignment by teacher

36. Final Grade

37. Lets see Grade Report…

38. Workshops
• Moodle Workshops are a great tool for
students to view, grade and assess their own
and other course members' work as a group.

39. Adding a new workshop

40. Save changes…

41. Assessment for workshop activity

42. Type of Scale

43. Element weight

44. Wiki

45. Making entry into the Wiki page

46. Preview it and then save…

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
Thank You!