Activity 9: Presenting a monolog using the Quiz module
Aim: Help students produce monologs for assessment
Moodle modules: Quiz
Extra programs: NanoGong (optional)
Ease of setup: ***
In Activity 8 we helped students create blogs for public viewing. Sometimes it is more appropriate to make the presentation private. The Quiz module helps us do that. Here are the main reasons for using a Quiz module, rather than a Blog or Forum, as a showcase for students' recordings:
Quizzes are private.
It's easy for teachers to record individual feedback.
Teachers can grade student attempts: the grades are automatically incorporated into the Moodle gradebook.
Students may be more motivated to produce the recording if they know that their peers won't hear it. Though for some students the chance to show off is the key motivator.
The easiest type of recording is a monolog, but it may well be feasible for students to get together and record a dialog. In fact, that could be a fun, useful process in itself. The list of...
