Beyond School

Just sharing this tutorial I made for my staff (95% of whom will not watch it, and therefore spend the rest of their lives making and grading quizzes and tests the hard way). It shows one way to use class Scribe Blogs to create test and quiz items on Moodle. Moodle then auto-grades, reports correct and incorrect answer percentages for each item, and more.

This is not a vote for objective quizzes and tests, by the way. We all should know how limited they are as a way to assess learning. But, since grades are a curse we’ve not been freed of, I see this test as a good way to generate an easy good grade for my students. And it does assure that they learn the basic literary terms and concepts covered in class discussions.

Note: If you click, “Click here to see full size,” you’ll go to the Screencast-0-matic.com site for a much larger video, much easier on the eyes. And you can leave comments and questions. SOM is very cool.

Let me know if you find these useful, and if you’d like more of the same?

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