Quizzes Compared, Round 4: Socrative
While researching this series of articles, I decided to revisit two of my old favourites, Socrative and Hot Potatoes, to
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Quizzes Compared, Round 2: Kahoot
In the previous article, I compared Moodle’s native quiz feature with quizzes created with H5P, concluding tht the former is
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Infinite Monkey’s
There is a saying that I know of along the lines that given enough time then a group monkeys could type out the complete works of Shakespeare. This then lead to a thought on if it actually happened then would it be a copyright infringement? Probably not given the time that has transpired, but then consider if instead of it being a random act, then what if the monkeys had just copied the text by learning how to use the keys Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V effectively? Then how could we tell the difference? With that thought in mind, then how can assessors of work on an online eLearning platform then detect plagiarism?
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Read Aloud for Reading & Listening Activities
Introduction Language instructors are already challenged to teach a social subject, fully online, as lock downs continue into 2021. Any
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More Tips for Writing MCQs
In my last post about MCQs, I wrote that MCQ questions should have: 3 – 4 options for one correct
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Tips for Writing MCQs
As creators and builders of quizzes and other assessments, we are often tasked with writing multiple choice questions. A multiple
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Human or Machine?
When you look at the screen what do you see? Do you see the pixels that blur together to form
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Assessment and evaluation in Moodle
Here is a interesting page linking to a variety of resources focused on assessment and evaluation in Moodle. The format
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Transforming assessment and feedback with technology
Guide to transforming assessment and feedback with technology. From the Jisc stable.
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Checklist for evaluating online courses
Written a few years ago by the Southern Regional Education Board, but I think the format and questions are still
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