Moodle Quizzes

I keep forgetting to post about Moodle! Moodle has seriously saved my life this year! It was a ton of prep work over the summer, but it is so worth it now. In our honors program, (the four of us who are piloting this program) we are designing literary analysis where our students still complete a portion of the analysis on paper and the other portion on Moodle. These are set up as quizzes on Moodle...quizzes that grade themselves! Before this, the kids were completing 6-7 page literary analysis. Multiply that times 25-30 students and multiple classes, and grading used to take forever. Now, all of the objective questions are online!

This has seriously cut down on cheating because Moodle scrambles the questions and the answers so that students do not have the same question order. We used to watch them in the hallways before school and you could see kids trying to copy each others answers. Now, we can see when each student started and stopped the quizzes and get an immediate grade report. The students also like it because they can see which ones they got incorrect and have immediate feedback after the quiz window closes.

We met last month, not to work on our actual quizzes (we had mostly made these over the summer) but instead to set the quiz settings and the feedback possibilities. There are SO many options with Moodle that it can get overwhelming, and I did not understand all of the options. A colleague of mine had done a good bit of research over the summer, and answered many of our questions.

I cannot get enough of Moodle this year! My students are turning in projects on Monday on Moodle so that all I have to do to open their presentations is click on each one! I am excited that they will be all in one place this year!!!