[elearning] Online assessing

Thu May 23 17:11:03 EST 2013

At my school the Maths Faculty are very keen users of Exam View.  Two years
ago they bought an upgraded licence and were very happy with the newer
features.  

Students can do tests as a class or individually, results or automatically
uploaded to a class spread-sheet.  Excellent analysis tools and analysis
graphing. 

For example at Year 9 when students they believe they are ready to do their
assessment they do a "pre-test" in Exam View.  If they cannot pass the
pre-test, they do more work with the teacher or a mentor.  Once they can
pass the "pre-test" they then do the "actual test" for VELS progression.
(Tests are different.)

Maths teachers have made banks of questions and automatically or manually
select questions for tests. Each student can do the same test in class as
there is a scramble questions option.  There is a facility to develop notes
and hints for question which can be used as automatic feedback that the
student receives at the end of the test.  (For example, a worked example).
Questions can be assigned a difficulty level - e.g. VELS standard for tests
which seek to test across a difficulty range.

The staff find it useful also for setting assessment for students who go
away. Tests can be put on-line, the student does the test and a corrected
copy is immediately emailed to the teacher to moment the student presses a
'submit' button.

Maths teachers are really happy at the way it reduces their correction,
allows students to work at their own pace and encourages differentiation.  

I used it for topic tests.

Australian distributor is:

http://www.kookaburra.com.au/custompage.aspx?custompage=eInstruction

Regards,

Martin Brabon

Sunbury College

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[mailto:elearning-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Simone Tynan
Sent: Thursday, 23 May 2013 1:58 PM
To: elearning Teachers' Mailing List
Subject: [elearning] Online assessing

Hi,

Interested to hear about Schoolology. Will have to have a look.

I do most of my assessment using Moodle. You are able to create rubrics in
the assignment upload section. I also have a permanent pop-quiz with
relevant multi choice questions taken from previous VCE exams. Moodle can
generate random questions from a list, so the students get a varied list
each time.  In japanese all of our students do a reading test at the
beginning of every lesson using the same system. We also use Moodle for
language listening tests. 

Homework questions are also completed using Moodle. This makes it easy to
mark as I can comment and grade each question based on the "assessors'
notes" I added when the "quiz" was added. 

The brilliant thing I find about the multichoice/short answer aspects is
that students are given instant feed back. 

Thanks,
Simone

************************************
Simone Tynan
eLearning Leader
LOTE Leader P-12
Simone.Tynan at shcy.vic.edu.au

Sacred Heart College
P.O. Box 286
Yarrawonga
Victoria 3730
Phone (03)5744 3258

On 23/05/2013, at 1:27 PM, "Savage, John L"
<savage.john.l at edumail.vic.gov.au> wrote:

I've moved most of my courses from Moodle to  <http://Schoology.com>
Schoology.com since the Moodle 2 upgrade. A lovely feature of Schoology is
the ability to import or define standards and use standards-based or
teacher-created rubrics to assess pieces of work. The markbook is nice and
simple but allows weighted categories.

Laurie

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Taylor, Charmaine C
Sent: Thursday, 23 May 2013 10:07 AM
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Subject: Re: [elearning] [Year 12 IT Apps] elearning standards

Hi All,

I've been using online testing and exams for my yr 7, 10 and 11 IT classes
for several years and wondered if any other teachers/schools have moved to
online assessment in any or all subjects.

Kind regards,

Charmaine

Charmaine Taylor

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Sent: Thursday, 23 May 2013 9:50 AM
To: Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List
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Subject: Re: [elearning] [Year 12 IT Apps] elearning standards

Crikey, imagine if we did not recommend that we teach HTML at one point
because of this concern. It would have held up things for a decade! It is
just that many are jumping ahead with advanced features before details about
the standard have been hammered out (these things take years). I recall that
we saw much the same thing happening with images and tables with ye olde
HTML. 

The core of HTML5 has been implemented and adopted by most browsers and many
websites. 

 <http://html5test.com/> http://html5test.com/ (does your browser support
HTML5?)

Is there any popular browser that does not already support HTML5?

 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5#Popularity>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5#Popularity 

Don't mind the fall-back mechanism suggested in the research report, we need
to cater for all groups. Even those still using IE6 I suppose ;-) I guess
that unlike VET, we have this luxury in the year 11IT area when we reflect
upon audience etc. I secretly enjoy cross-browser conflicts we bump into for
all the learning opportunities that they provide for challenging and
teaching students. My 2 cents worth .. 

Regards Roland

Roland Gesthuizen | eLearning Leader 
Keysborough College DEECD
 <http://about.me/rgesthuizen> http://about.me/rgesthuizen

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change
the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has." --Margaret Mead

On 16/05/2013, at 11:16 AM, Kevork KROZIAN <
<mailto:kkrozian at ringwoodsc.vic.edu.au> kkrozian at ringwoodsc.vic.edu.au>
wrote:

Hi Folks,

Sorry for the cross posts.

I have been required to complete a survey regarding VET and elearning.  

There has been reference to eight nationally endorsed VET E-standards for
training
<http://e-standards.flexiblelearning.net.au/documents/2013-recommended-vet-e
standards.docx>
http://e-standards.flexiblelearning.net.au/documents/2013-recommended-vet-es
tandards.docx .  

It makes for interesting reading especially the reference to HTML5:

"Unfortunately HTML5 is not recommended at this time for use in development
of content intended for widespread use in the VET sector because of
inconsistent implementation by browser developers. Please see the
<http://e-standards.flexiblelearning.net.au/documents/2011-html5-research.do
c> E-standards for Training 2011 HTML5 Research report (Opens in new
window). If you choose to use HTML5 functionality you should provide a fall
back mechanism for browsers not supporting that functionality."

The home page
<http://e-standards.flexiblelearning.net.au/technical_standards/index.php>
http://e-standards.flexiblelearning.net.au/technical_standards/index.php
would be a valuable reference also.

Kind Regards

Kevork Krozian

IT Pathways Manager

Ringwood Trade Training Facility

Tel: 0419 356 034

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