Exercise module
Template:Moodle 1.8 Exercise is a simple but powerful assignment tool where the teacher asks the students to do a piece of practical work. The student's self assessment and the teacher's assessment make up the grade for the assignment. It will probably be replaced by the more robust Workshop module in future Moodles. It became a standard activity module for a course in Moodle 1.8.
An exercise could be writing an essay or a report, preparing a presentation, etc. When the student has done the task they must first self-assess their work before submitting it to the teacher. Once submitted the teacher assesses the piece of work itself. The teacher can give feedback to the student and ask the student to improve the work and re-submit it or not. The final grade is based on how well the student assessed their own work and the work itself.
Settings
Most fields on the settings page for Exercise have help buttons which describe them in more detail. The fields include:
- Title, Description, Grade for Student Assessment,Grade for Submission, Grading Strategy, Handling of Multiple Submissions, Number of Comments, Assessment Elements, Grade Bands, Criterion Statments or Categories in a Rubric, Comparison of Assessments, Use Password, Password, Maximum Size, Deadline, Number of Entries in League Table, Hide Names from Students, Group mode, and Hide from students.
Development notes
The Exercise module was originally written by Ray Kingdon for Moodle 1.3 and was a non-standard module at that time. It is planned to replace the Exercise module with a new Workshop module.
See also
- Using Moodle Exercise module forum
