Title: Activity 3.3: Moodle Assessment Tools
Course: Stage 3: Online and Blended Teaching > Section: 2. Focus on Assessment

Purpose: to practice using some of the Moodle assessment tools in your own Moodle practice course

Timing: 60 mins (async)

Tools: Forum; Assignments, Choice, Survey (or if you are feeling brave try out the Quiz or Feedback)

Resources:

  - Your Assessment Plan
  - Moodle Basics Lesson: 5. Types of Assessment
  - Moodle Tool Guide for Teachers (Henrick, 2012) (pdf);
  - Moodle 2 Interactive Tool Guide for Teachers - Part 2 Activities (Anmar Merhbe, website)
  - Moodle Activities (Moodle.org);
  - Using Assessment Tools in Moodle (UNSW, 2020)
  - Moodle General Documentaion (Moodle.org, 2020)

Task: Explore two of the assessment tools available in Moodle

Response:

  - Access your Moodle Basics Lesson and focus on Section 5: Assessment Tool Types
  - Choose an assessment tool that you may like to use in your course and explore the associated settings
  - Then explore a 2nd (different) tool and its settings
  - Set up at least 2 ‘dummy’ assessments in your practice course using the appropriate tool/s

In the forum:

  - Explain why you have chosen the tools, and highlight any challenges in setting the assessments up.
  - Take a screenshot of each example of how you have set up an assessment tool and upload (as attachments or embedded image) with your forum contribution.
  - You can take a screenshot by holding down the <Windows>+<shift>+<S> keys which opens your Snipping app. Then drag your cursor (+) to outline the image you want to capture, and then save the image on your computer and in your Private files area.