Moodle Assessments

Over the past two weeks my year 11 History class has been completing an Internal Assessment Achievement Standard worth four credits of the 24 on offer in year eleven History.

They had two weeks to complete a task where they had to write a newspaper editorial from 1954 based around the events of the Civil Rights Movement at that time. The task involved them writing from the perspectives of someone supporting the decision of Brown vs Board of Education and someone against. I allowed submission of the assessment either on paper or electronically via Moodle’s assignment activity. They were allowed to submit as they revised their answer which allowed me to point out areas that they were weak on and many of the students took full advantage of this.

The boys in my class were especially impressive as they got into the task but even though they had plenty of time to do the task this picture shows some of the times the assessment was handed in.

It was due at 8:30am on Friday and I can see there were some late nights on thursday. In all however using the Moodle assignment feature has been very successful and made things very easy for me to provide feedback and feedforward even when I see most of these students every day.

Overall a useful addition to good classroom practice.