Neny Isharyanti, M.A.

Creating Assessment
using Moodle Course
Management System
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
 Neny.isharyanti@gmail.com
 neny@staff.uksw.edu
 http://neny.edublogs.org  portfolio