Moodle 1.9: Assignments and Quizzes

This 3.5-hour course is intended for University of Minnesota faculty and course designers who would like to use Moodle for assignment submission and quizzes in their course web sites. Participants will learn how to create and modify quizzes; work with different question types; review, reset, and reply to submission attempts; and grade the different types of quiz questions. Participants will also learn how to create different types of assignments.

Topics include:

• creating and releasing assignments
• returning submitted work for revision
• reviewing submissions
• entering grades and comments for assignments
• creating and editing questions
• incorporating customized question feedback
• creating and releasing quizzes
• working with random question sets
• altering quiz content and updating scores
• viewing submissions and giving feedback to students
• overriding quiz grades and resetting attempts
• reviewing item analysis to analyze the efficacy of individual questions

Prerequisites

Familiarity with using a web browser. Knowledge equivalent to

Platform

This course is taught on both the Macintosh and Windows platforms using a supported web browser to access Moodle 1.9.

Fees

No fee. Registration required.

Registration in this course is limited to University of Minnesota students, staff, and faculty.