Online Teaching

What outcomes do you want to assess?

Technology

Knowledge and comprehension recall of information

1. Moodle Quizzes; for example, multiple choice, true/false drag and drop, matching, short answer /essay, fill in the blanks

Higher-level cognitive skills. eg. Analysis, evaluation

1. Moodle Quizzes – in particular short answer/essay
2. Discussion Forum – allows student to respond by text, audio or video
3. Moodle Journal tool – like a private journal that allows student to reflect on personal thoughts or issues related to the course
4. VoiceThread (in Moodle) – like the discussion forum, allows students to respond by text, audio or video but also add slides they have created – good for presentations
5. Moodle Dropbox for submitting Assignments; student can submit Word or PDF documents through the dropbox for instructor grading

Attitudes.

1. Moodle Quizzes – in particular short answer/essay
2. Discussion Forum
3. Moodle Journal tool
4. VoiceThread (in Moodle)
5. Moodle Dropbox for submitting Word doc. assignments

Writing skills, grammatical skills, reporting skills.

1. Moodle Quizzes – in particular short answer/essay
2. Discussion Forum
3. Moodle Dropbox for submitting Word doc. assignments

Collaboration

1. Moodle Wiki—a built in wiki that allows students to collaborate on a writing project
2. Discussion Forum
3. VoiceThread (in Moodle)
4. BlackBoard Ultra Synchronous software (in Moodle)