Moodle Course Design Best Practices - Second Edition

Types of assessment

Moodle provides a wide array of options as you determine the best way to let your students demonstrate that they have achieved the knowledge, skills, and abilities that the learning outcomes have defined.

If you've kept in mind the key questions, "What do I want my students to do?" and "How will they show their skills, knowledge, attitudes, and abilities?", you will find that it will be much easier to develop the appropriate assessment strategy. The following are a few guidelines:

• Make sure that each topic's assessment ties directly to the learning outcome for that particular topic. Your assessment should be of sufficient complexity to allow your students to demonstrate that they have achieved the learning outcome.