Designing assessment & learning activities for blended delivery at

Wodonga TAFEMichael Gwyther

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Today’s agenda

• Blended Learning for better teaching and learning

• Social media there to be used but Moodle is the source of Assessment Truth

• Hands on guidance to Mastering:– Marking guides– Quiz– Lesson– Feedback

Resources for today

http://yumstudio.com.au/temp/wodonga

Marking Guides, Quiz, Lesson

Blended Learning Modes

Face to Face

Face to Face

Self Paced Self

Paced

Online FacilitatedOnline

Facilitated

Workplace supervisionAnd Assessment

Workplace supervisionAnd Assessment

Blended Learning Modes

The idea behind blended learning is that we review a learning program, chunk it into lessons, and determine the best medium to deliver those lessons to the learner. Various media include, but are not limited to,technologies such as:

• Traditional classroom or lab settings• Reading assignments• Performance support tools• Video conferencing• Self-paced training• Virtual training

Blended Learning Choices

Face to Face Self Paced OnlineFacilitated

Content

Activities

Assessment

Workplace Assessment

3 Ages of Moodle - Repository

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TextHeavy

AssessmentDistribution

SupportsF2F

Class

QuizInconsistent

Styles Scroll of

Death

3 Ages of Moodle – Active Teaching

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StudentInteraction

QuizLessons

SCORMActivities/

assessment

Variety ofAssessment

Searchableresources

Parallel Social

Learning Spaces

3 Ages of Moodle – Social Learning

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StudentsConstructknowledge

Groupwork

PeerReview

Assessment

IntegratedBlended Learning

ConsistentStyle,

Navigation Gamification

Marking Guides in Moodle

Used in Assignments-For each marking criterion, a comment explains what is being sought, and provides a maximum mark that can be awarded.-You can allow students to view the marking guide before they submit, so that they know what their learning priorities are in relation to this assignment.-You need to set the passing mark.

Rubrics in Moodle

-Rubric has preset levels for each criterion that the teacher can select from when marking that criterion.-Marking guide lets you enter a number as the grade for a criterion –-Marking guide also lets you build a set of frequently used comments to use when marking.

Rubrics v Marking Guides

•Set up and Assessment Task•Go to Advanced marking•Set up Marking Guide•Make available to student•Set passing mark in Gradebook

Activity – Marking Guide

Quizzes in Moodle

Quiz allows the teacher to design and build quizzes consisting of a large variety of Question types, including multiple choice, true-false, and short answer questions.

These questions are kept in Question bank categories and can be re-used in different quizzes in other Wodonga TAFE Moodle shells or given as a sub set to students randomly

• Tend to be knowledge retrieval• Align to required knowledge in work context• Put comprehension questions in context• Make a sub set of questions reflecting

workplace process• Mix up types

(MC, T or F, Matching, Short answer, cloze)• Ask less questions & focus on good

distracters• Attempts, Feedback and randomisation

Writing Quizzes

Quizzes in Moodle

•Set up 3 question banks with 4 questions each•Set up a Quiz•Add to the Quiz 2 questions from each bank to be drawn randomly•Test

Activity – Quizzes

Lesson in Moodle

The lesson module presents a series of HTML pages to the student who is usually asked to make some sort of choice underneath the content area.

The choice will send them to a specific page in the Lesson. Teachers can break linear content by adding decision points or quizzes along the lesson path.

Lesson Branch (Comprehension)

Topic Topic Topic

Branch (Sequence & Choice)

Topics

Topic 1

Topic 2

Topic 3

Conditional (Decision making tree)

Catchup

Catchup

Catchup

Types of activitiesContent Type How used

Information Background, process, policy, procedure,

Demonstration Instruction

Case Study Contextualise information and process using real life example

Scenario Exploration of information and process using real life example

Decision making tree

Decision making applying information using real life example

Checklists Benchmark completion of a task

Problem Research decision making and information application to real life example

Assessment Quiz, Template, Short answer, Project

•Create a lesson using the content provided•Set up content pages•Embed Audio and You Tube Video•Add quiz questions•Set up the Navigation•Test

Activity – Lesson

Feedback in Moodle

-You can create and conduct surveys to collect feedback. Unlike the Quiz tool, you can create non-graded questions-Flexible survey tool that can be used for formative assessment. -Responses can be anonymous and tracked using visual reports.

•Create a short formative assessment quiz•Make feedback anonymous•Set a landing page•Test•Explore the reports

Activity – Feedback

Moodle Docs

https://docs.moodle.org/26/ https://docs.moodle.org/26/

Moodle Guide for Teachers

http://www.cats-pyjamas.net/moodle-tool-guide/ http://www.cats-pyjamas.net/moodle-tool-guide/

Moodle YouTube Channel

https://www.youtube.com/user/moodlehq https://www.youtube.com/user/moodlehq

Rapid e Learning Blog

http://www.articulate.com/rapid-elearning/http://www.articulate.com/rapid-elearning/

Take aways

“teaching quality is paramount”“external tools are great for discussions but we can’t track them”

“all assessment evidence needs to be captured inside Moodle”

“good assessment is not over assessment but mapped assessment”

Any Questions?

Closing remarks & Evaluation

You will receive an email introduction to our Resource Portal where you can download your certificate of attendance and other resources from today’s workshop