Moodle assessment tools

Let's take a closer look at the tools provided by Moodle for assessing students' work. The wide range of possibilities might seem overwhelming at first, but once you get the hang of the key features, it becomes quite intuitive to use.

Quiz module

The Quiz module is the main assessment engine in Moodle. It provides a wide range of question types, and enables us to control key assessment elements such as feedback comments, setting timing for tests, assessment criteria, scales, weighting student responses, and the organization of questions. In this module, the same question can be presented as a practice question that students can keep working at and learning from, or as a tightly-controlled test item with strict access rules.

The easiest way to understand — the way the Quiz module works in Moodle is to think of it as an Item Bank — a place where you store all your questions — which you can dig into to create a quiz, a set of questions. When you first set up a Quiz, the...