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Advanced Online Assessment Strategies
Moodle
distancelearning@louisiana.edu
Agenda • Introduction: Bloom’s Taxonomy Action Verbs • Part 1: Plagiarism Prevention in Assignments (Turnitin) • Part 2: Peer Review and Assessment (Workshop) • Part 3: Advanced Quiz Question Types • Q&A • Upcoming Events • What’s new with DL
Introduction: Bloom’s Taxonomy
Creating
(Synthesis)
Evaluating Upper-division,
(Evaluation) graduate courses
Analyzing
(Analysis)
Applying (Application)
Understanding Lower-division
(Comprehension)
courses
Remembering (Knowledge)
*Source: Anderson, L. W., & Krathwohl, D. R. (Eds.). 2001
Introduction: Action Verbs
Clear, action-oriented verbs:
Students will…
▪ Compare ▪ Choose
▪ Construct ▪ Differentiate
▪ Design ▪ Discuss
▪ Explain ▪ Indicate
▪ Participate ▪ Predict
▪ Summarize ▪ Select
▪ Write ▪ Classify
▪ Contribute ▪ Draw
▪ Analyze ▪ Critique
Part 1: Plagiarism Prevention in Assignments Turnitin
Assignment Activity • The Moodle Assignment activity provides a space into which students can submit work for teachers to grade and give feedback on. • Action Verbs include: relate, illustrate, rephrase, simplify, justify, predict (both lower and higher order). • This type of activity must be monitored for plagiarism, which can be inefficient.
Turnitin
Turnitin is an online tool that checks student submissions against
internet search and all other works previously submitted.
• Free for Faculty use
Create a Turnitin Assignment
• Seamless Moodle Integration within Moodle via
Add an Activity or Resource
• Supported by Distance Learning
• Grading and feedback through
Moodle
• Custom Rubric creationReasons for Using Turnitin
Student Perspective:
• Displays Originality Report to Students (optional)
• Alerts students to non-originality within their paper.
• Helps students to learn what is and what is not plagiarism.
My Final Paper 8675309 11/1/25 10:22 49%
Instructor Perspective
• Instructor can judge each incident on a case-by-case basis.
• Prevents the resubmission of the same paper in different courses.
• Prevents student work from being used by others without proper
citation.Turnitin Instructor View
Originality
Student Name | Title of PaperTurnitin Instructor View
Leave a Comment
Student Name | Title of Paper
Automated Grammar checkUsing Rubrics with Turnitin
A Rubric must be created in the Rubric Manager.
First, click on the Edit Settings link for this
Assignment within Moodle.
Second, under the GradeMark Options
heading, click Launch Rubric Manager.
No RubricCreating Rubrics with Turnitin
Click the
“hamburger” for
the menu
Create a New
Rubric
View available
pre-built Rubrics
Rubric for Final Paper 2025
Rubric for Final Paper 2024
Rubric for Final Paper 2023
Rubric for Final Paper 2022
Note: Rubrics cannot
be attached to the
Assignment in
Rubric ManagerAttaching a Rubric to the Assignment
Return to the Edit Settings page for this
Assignment to attach a Rubric.
Under the GradeMark Options heading,
use the dropdown menu to select the
desired Rubric.
Rubric for Final Paper 2025Grading with Rubrics
Utilize Rubric
Student Name | Title of PaperPart 2: Peer Review and Assessment Moodle Workshop
Workshop
A Workshop is a powerful peer-assessment activity within Moodle.
• Students submit documents to be evaluated by group members.
• The instructor
Create a Workshop
o sets the criteria for evaluation Assignment within Moodle via
Add an Activity or Resource
o moves the class through
the phases of the Workflow
• Action Verbs include: evaluate,
rate, rule on, decide, interpret
(higher order).Workshop Workflow - Setup
1. Setup Phase
• Instructor finalizes settings
• Instructor creates a yes/no-based Assessment form
• To move to next Phase, click on the lightbulb in the
Submission Phase BlockWorkshop Workflow - Submission
2. Submission Phase
• Each Student submits a document
• Easy to determine participation
• Instructor must allocate reviewsWorkshop Workflow - Assessment
3. Assessment Phase
• Students review documents as allocated.
• They complete the Assessment Form for each.
Student View of Allocations: Student View of Assessment Form:
https://school.moodledemo.netWorkshop Workflow – Grading Evaluation
4. Grading Evaluation Phase
• Submission Grade - averaged from peer Assessment.
• Assessment Grade - how well a student’s Assessment
agrees with others.
• The instructor can override these grades.
5. Closed – no further interaction can occur.
https://school.moodledemo.netPart 3: Advanced Quiz Question Types Moodle Quiz
Quiz Activity These Question types require extra preparation • Calculated Multichoice • Embedded Answers (Cloze) • Random Short Answer Matching • Drag and Drop *https://docs.moodle.org/31/en/Question_types
Calculated Multichoice
• All students can receive different numbers in the question
text and in the answer choices.
• These variables are called wild cards on Moodle.
• Action Verbs include calculate, solve (lower order)
Student 1 View Student 2 ViewCalculated Multichoice
In the Question Text, wild
The students will only see
cards are indicated with curly
numbers when they view the
brackets, { } around a letter or
question:
word:Calculated Multichoice When writing Answer Choices: The students will select from • Use curly brackets around the calculated values only. calculation • Do not use spaces
Embedded Answers (Cloze)
• Cloze questions consist of a short passage with several embedded
questions.
• Action Verbs include identify, recall, interpret, apply, predict, assess,
evaluate (both higher and lower order)
• Three major question types can be embedded with options.
• Each type requires a code, for example:
Question Type Long Code Short Code
Short Answer SHORTANSWER SA
Numerical NUMERICAL NM
Multiple Choice MULTICHOICE_S MCS
(dropdown; shuffle)
https://www.umass.edu/it/support/moodle/embedded-answers-cloze-questions
http://projects.ael.uni-tuebingen.de/quiz/htmlarea/index.phpEmbedded Answers (Cloze) • A Cloze code generator can be used: http://goo.gl/zxRQmN
Embedded Answers (Cloze) • A Cloze code generator can be used: http://goo.gl/zxRQmN Instructor view of Question Creation: Student view of Question:
Random Short Answer Matching
• The Random Short Answer Matching Question converts several
pre-existing Short Answer questions into a single matching
question.
Short Answer Questions Random Short Answer MatchingRandom Short Answer Matching • The number of items to match can be equal to or less than the number of Short Answer Questions. • Only the first 100% credit Answer is used from each. • No distractors can be added. • All of the Short Answer Question must be in the same category as the Random Short Answer Matching question. • Action Verbs include categorizing, labeling, defining (lower order)
Drag and Drop - Text
• Three types of Drag and Drop questions can be built
• Action Verbs include sorting, identifying, defining (lower order)
1. Drag and Drop onto Text
• Words or phrases are dragged
onto a statement and dropped
into blanks.
• Multiple Word Banks (Groups)
can be used.
• Distractors may be included in
Word Banks.
https://docs.moodle.org/31/en/Drag_and_drop_into_text_question_typeDrag and Drop - Text
Three types of Drag and Drop questions can be built:
1. Drag and Drop onto Text
• Use double brackets and a number in question text to indicate a
blank.
https://docs.moodle.org/31/en/Drag_and_drop_into_text_question_typeDrag and Drop - Markers
2. Drag and Drop Markers
• Words or phrases are dragged
onto a background image.
• The maximum image size is
600 by 400 pixels.
• Dropzones must be coded in
manually by the number of
pixels. (1 box = 10 pix)
Left, Top; Right, Bottom
Rectangle 10,30;180,290
https://docs.moodle.org/31/en/Drag_and_drop_markers_question_typeDrag and Drop - Image
3. Drag and Drop onto Image
• Smaller images and phrases
are dragged onto a background
image.
• The max. background image
size is 600 by 400 pixels.
• The max. draggable image size
is 150 by 100 pixels.
• Dropzones are auto-populated
during question creation.
https://docs.moodle.org/31/en/Drag_and_drop_markers_question_typeFeedback Settings on Quizzes If students have multiple attempts on a quiz, we recommend unchecking Right Answers until quiz is closed.
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