Assessment with quizzes and distributed practice

Once you have determined the ideal instructional strategy for your course that will involve a certain number of assessments, you can start the process of building them in Moodle. For learning outcomes that involve identification, definition, and explanation of concepts and key terms, a quiz is often a very effective assessment tool. Fortunately, Moodle makes it convenient to create a quiz that ties directly to the Gradebook. It also allows you to put in time constraints and to allow students to retake and repeat the quiz for practice and encourage proficiency. One useful technique for students in the online environment is the concept of distributed practice.

Distributed practice is when a student practices a skill or knowledge during many sessions that are short in length and distributed over time. For example, if you're teaching a language course, you might practice every day for one week on a list of vocabulary words. That would be distributed...