Understanding assignments in Moodle

If you would like your learner to demonstrate that they have achieved mastery of a skill set or a body of knowledge, you will need to develop a way of assessing it. One good approach is to develop an assignment. The Assignment activity in Moodle gives you space to check the learner's knowledge using a quiz, allow the learner to practice until they achieve the passing score, and show they have achieved the learning objective.

Adding an assignment

Let's start by creating an assignment. We can do that by clicking Adding an assignment and then selecting Assignment from the menu that includes the full list of Moodle activities. In this case, we will be adding the assignment to the Dog Grooming for Everyone course. We will name the assignment Review of Dog Grooming Tools.

This is where you can add the description of the assignment and also the assignment's instructions. Notice that the verb aligns with Bloom's Taxonomy and...