2 Learning outcomes

In Hands-on Moodle Quiz you will learn:

  1. How to handle student responses containing
    1. numbers
    2. words
    3. selections
    4. 2D placements.
  2. You will learn how to give feedback to enable students to learn.
  3. You will build your questions into more substantial quizzes.
  4. And you will use performance on the quizzes to guide further study.
  5. You will also learn that writing effective eAssessment can be a time-consuming task and will be better able to judge when the input effort will be rewarded by
    1. improved student learning
    2. improved retention
    3. individualised feedback to large numbers of students
    4. 24/7/365 availability

You will end the course with your own set of ready to use questions.

N.b. The hardest task on this course is learning to use the features of Moodle to enable you to write good questions. Consequently we provide substantial time and opportunity for you to work on your own questions. But the course cannot and will not try to provide any measure of how good your questions are. To answer that you will need to put your questions in front of your own students and monitor what happens. We will show you how to use the Quiz reporting tools and suggest what you should be aiming for but it will be up to you to measure whether or not you hit those targets. Learning from your own successes and mistakes takes time too. In the long run eAssessment can improve student learning and can save you time but as with many other things you will only maximise the rewards, to your students and to yourself, by putting in sufficient effort.

1.2 Evidence that instant feedback is effective at promoting learning