Author: Ruth Horak

Elearning World LMS Moodle 

Student empowerment through progress monitoring tools in Moodle

11th July 201911th July 2019 Ruth Horak 1 Comment activity completion, course completion, empowerment, Moodle, Progress monitoring

Most teachers want students to take responsibility for their learning. As a teacher, you can support your students by offering

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Moodle Pedagogy 

Poodll assignments in Moodle – a great tool for language learning

11th February 201920th February 2019 Ruth Horak 0 Comments Audio, audio assignments, audio feedback, Moodle, Poodll, second language learning

Poodll assignment submissions and feedback in Moodle are great tools for second language learning.

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Moodle Pedagogy 

The ‘Corrections’ plugin in Moodle

28th January 201920th February 2019 Ruth Horak 1 Comment Assignment, correcting assignments, Corrections plugin, elearning, Moodle, Moodle plugins, second language learning

Searching for a good tool for correcting Moodle assignments? The ‘Corrections’ plugin might be well worth a try. 

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Elearning World Gamification Learning design Moodle Pedagogy 

Moodle ‘Short answer’ quiz questions in second language teaching

11th December 201811th December 2018 Ruth Horak 0 Comments Moodle, Moodle quizzes, second language learning, second language teaching, short answer quiz questions

Moodle’s ‘Short answer’ quiz questions are popular and easy to use. However, they are also an obvious source of mistakes.

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Elearning World Moodle Pedagogy 

How to use Moodle’s Embedded answers (Cloze) quizzes in Second Language Teaching

11th November 20185th November 2018 Ruth Horak 0 Comments Cloze, Digital learning, elearning, Quiz, Quiz question, quizzes, second language learning, second language teaching

Embedded answers (Cloze) questions in Moodle are great tools, but you need to know how to set them up.

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Moodle Pedagogy 

Moodle Multiple Choice Quizzes in Second Language Teaching

11th October 201815th October 2018 Ruth Horak 0 Comments comprehension, inference, inferencing, multiple choice, Quiz, second language learning

When do multiple choice questions make sense in Second Language Teaching? Here are a few ideas and suggestions.

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Moodle Pedagogy 

The Moodle ‘essay’ question type in second language learning

11th August 201815th October 2018 Ruth Horak 2 Comments elearning, essay question, language learning, Quiz, translation exercises

The ‘essay’ question type is a Moodle quiz question requiring manual marking. However, if you use essay questions for translation

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Gamification Moodle 

Moodle quizzes in language teaching – ‘Drag and drop’ questions

11th July 201815th October 2018 Ruth Horak 0 Comments drag & drop, Drag and drop, images, language learning, Moodle quizzes, Quiz, text cohesion, vocabulary

In my last post, I promised to cover different quiz question types that I have found useful in language teaching.

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Gamification Moodle Pedagogy 

Moodle quizzes in language teaching – preliminary considerations

11th June 201815th October 2018 Ruth Horak 6 Comments language learning, moodle quiz, Moodle quizzes, Quiz

This post is the first in a series dealing with Moodle quizzes.

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Moodle 

No Sharing Cart plugin? How to reuse your favourite course content anyway

11th May 201815th October 2018 Ruth Horak 0 Comments Backup, Import, restore

Last month I wrote about the Sharing Cart, which allows teachers to carry their own personal library with them from

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