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

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An overview of assessment tools & settings (including tracking & scales).

Your facilitator will demonstrate some basic assessment tools and their settings:

  - Show ratings’ settings in the Forum activity type
  - Tracking progress - concept & how to set up
  - Assessment/Competency scales

Assessment is a type of activity in Moodle. Any activity can be assessed within an online course depending on how the activity is designed. For example, forum contributions can be evaluated for content and frequency as part of a participation grade specified within your course assessment plan. However, common Moodle tools that are designed specifically for assessment and evaluation are shown in Table 3.2. Assessment can be automated (marked by the system) or manually assessed by the lecturer, tutor, or peers.

Remember to refer to your storyboard - your assessments should be aligned with your outcomes. We will  try out some of these assessment types in Activity 3.3 using your own course practice space on Moodle.

Table 3.2: Types of Assessment in Moodle (adapted from Moodle.org , 2019)

Tool | Description
Assignment | Enables teachers to grade and give comments on uploaded files and assignments created on- and off-line.
Choice | A teacher asks a single question and specifies a choice of multiple responses, automatically marked.
Quiz | Allows the teacher to design and set quiz tests, which may be automatically marked and feedback and/or correct answers shown.
Feedback | For creating and conducting surveys to collect feedback.
Survey | For gathering data from students to help teachers learn about their class and reflect on their own teaching.
Workshop | Enables the collection, review and peer assessment of students' work.

Now introduce Activity 3.3: Moodle Assessment Tools