Assessment

Assessment and Evaluation of Group Work in Moodle

Group work can produce anxiety for students, and much of that anxiety comes from not knowing how much their grade will be affected by other...

Ungrading Toolkit: Learning vs. Earning

Ungrading is a movement to reduce or eliminate the role of grades in formal learning environments. Ungrading shifts the focus from traditional grades to self-monitoring...

Make Your Gradebook Student-Friendly

Students use feedback to monitor their performance, reflect on progress, and support their growth—a process that aligns with self-regulated learning (Pintrich, 2004). Because the Moodle...

Student Blogging Assignments

When we think of blogs, memories of early internet diaries may come to mind. However, the evolution of this writing genre has given it limitless...

Assessing Student Learning with Core Moodle Tools

Assessment and feedback are critical to teaching and learning. Low-stakes assessments can be “formative,” meaning they administered before or during the learning process to guide...

Promoting Academic Integrity in Moodle Quizzes

How can you design online quizzes and exams to support academic integrity? While no single setting can eliminate cheating, several Moodle options and best practices...

Gradescope: Streamline the Grading Experience

Gradescope is grading software that is designed to make assignment submission and grading easier. It allows instructors to create variable-length assignments (problem sets & projects)...

Perusall: Interactive Reading Assignments

Perusall is a text-based social annotation/commenting/discussion tool. Instructors provide students with a text, and students use commenting to have an asynchronous discussion about the text....

Turnitin: Writing Feedback, Plagiarism Checks, and Peer Review

Turnitin is software accessed through Moodle that compares submitted written work with other sources (determined by the instructor) to look for similarities. Turnitin will also...

Peer Review With Digital Tools

Interactions are a key component of student learning in online and face-to-face settings including student-instructor interactions, student-content interactions, and student-student interactions. Peer review is one...

Google Assignments in Moodle

Harness Google’s rich feedback tools and grade directly from a Google Drive file right inside Moodle. Google Assignments can simplify grading, feedback, and file sharing...

Administering Online Exams

For assistance with assessment options, feel free to contact DELTA Testing Services or request a LearnTech instructional consultation. Moodle Exam Resources If you need help...

Assessment

Formative and summative assessments are the backbone of a course and can help determine the learner’s success. This section focuses on the types of formal...

Real-time Assessments and Check-ins

Great teachers understand that learning is a conversation, not a monologue. Real-time assessments and check-ins spark conversation with your students, preventing your class from being...

Rubric Best Practices, Examples, and Templates

A rubric is an evaluation tool that outlines the criteria for an assignment or learning outcome. It defines levels of achievement in clear, measurable terms....

Types of Assessment

How do I give an exam online? Will students be more likely to cheat? What makes for an effective assessment in the online learning environment?...

Providing Effective Feedback

Instructor and peer feedback have a profound effect on the quality of student learning. When teaching online, it is important to foster both learner-instructor interaction...

Best Practices for Creating Multiple-Choice Questions

Multiple-choice quizzes and exams are widely used in higher education to assess student learning. In this article, we will explore the multiple-choice format and share...