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* MDLQA-42 In a [[Choice module|choice activity]] a teacher can ask a question and specify a choice of multiple responses | * MDLQA-42 In a [[Choice module|choice activity]] a teacher can ask a question and specify a choice of multiple responses | ||
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Revision as of 18:31, 12 January 2010
Note: This article is a work in progress. Please use the page comments or an appropriate moodle.org forum for any recommendations/suggestions for improvement.
This page lists Moodle 2.0 features in a format suitable for setting up test cases (see Jira as a Test Case Management Software).
Each item should state a task that can be done in Moodle. The task should be feature sized (ie not too small and not too large). Something that could be explained to a user in 3 to 10 steps. Most settings should be mentioned. For example:
GOOD: Users can post replies to forum posts, including embedded media and attached documents. BAD: Users can have discussions. BAD: Users can click a button named "Reply".
Assignment module
- The Assignment module allows students to submit assignments for the teacher to grade and provide comments.
- Assignment submissions are date-stamped.
- Students receive email notification when their assignment submission is graded.
- The Upload a single file assignment allows a student to upload a file in any format.
- The Advanced uploading of files assignment allows a student to upload a set number of files. Teachers may also upload files, and students may add online notes.
- The maximum size of file which students can upload as their submission can be set.
- The Online text assignment allows students to add and edit text online for the teacher to grade and provide comments. In addition, the teacher may add comments inline and/or edit a student's submission.
- The Offline activity assignment enables teachers to grade and give comments on an assignment completed offline.
- The time period in which students can access the assignment may be restricted.
- Late submissions may be prevented, otherwise they will be marked as late if submitted after the due date.
- Students can be allowed to resubmit their assignments after grading in order to have the chance to improve their grade.
- Teachers may choose to receive email notification of assignment submissions.
- A 'View x submitted assignments' link on the assignment page informs teachers of the number of assignments submitted to-date.
- Assignment submissions are listed on one page for ease of marking.
- Assignment submissions may be ordered by student first name/surname, grade, comment, last modified (student), last modified (teacher) or status.
- A quick grade feature enables teachers to grade multiple assignments on one page then save all the changes.
- Assignments which have not yet been graded have the word 'Grade' highlighted in the status column.
Chat module
- The Chat module enables participants to have a real-time synchronous discussion via the web.
- The module supports smilies e.g.
:-)
, links, HTML code and emoting e.g./me
. - Participants can send a sound to other participants by clicking the beep link next to their name.
- Profile pictures are displayed next to participants' names in the chat window.
- The chat window auto-scroll may be disabled if desired.
- A version of the chat window without frames and JavaScript is available.
- A chat time can be chosen and set to repeat at the same time each day or each week.
- Past chat sessions can be archived for a specified number of days.
- Past chat sessions can be made available for everyone to view, or restricted to teachers only.
- Selected past chat sessions may be deleted by a teacher.
Choice module
- MDLQA-42 In a choice activity a teacher can ask a question and specify a choice of multiple responses
- MDLQA-43 A teacher can limit the number the number of participants that can select each choice response
- MDLQA-44 A teacher can restrict the time period in which students can answer a choice
- Responses may be displayed horizontally or vertically.
- The time period in which students can answer the choice may be restricted.
- The teacher can choose whether to allow students to change their answer or only accept their first answer.
- The teacher can choose whether results are shown to students after they answer, after the choice activity is closed, always or never.
- Results may be published anonymously or showing names.
- The number of participants who can select each response may be limited.
- A column listing names of students who have not yet answered the choice may be displayed.
Database module
- MDLQA-18 In a database activity, students can add entries to a database
- MDLQA-19 A database activity may include up to 12 different Database fields
- MDLQA-20 Database activity entries can be viewed in a list or singly or they can be searched or browsed
- MDLQA-21 A teacher can set a default sort order for database activity entries
- MDLQA-22 A teacher can export database entries in a choice of formats
- MDLQA-23 A teacher can restrict the time period in which students can view and/or add entries to a database activity
- MDLQA-24 A teacher can set a required number of entries for a database activity
- MDLQA-25 A teacher can set a required number of entries before a student can view other database activity entries
- MDLQA-26 A teacher can set a maximum number of entries which a student can submit for a database activity
- Users may be allowed to add comments
- MDLQA-27 A teacher can set that database activity entries require approval before being viewable by everyone
- MDLQA-28 A teacher can enable database activity entry rating according to a chosen grading scale
- MDLQA-29 A teacher can use templates to modify the visual layout of information in a database activity
- MDLQA-30 A teacher can share a database activity as a preset
Forum module
- MDLQA-6 By default, a new course contains a News forum in which only teachers can post and subscription is forced
- MDLQA-7 By default, a new course contains a Latest News block which displays a specific number of recent discussions from the news forum
- MDLQA-8 In a standard forum, users can start discussions, add replies and attach files to their posts
- MDLQA-9 In a single simple discussion forum only teachers can start discussions
- MDLQA-10 In a 'Each person posts one discussion' forum users can start exactly one discussion and can reply to all discussions
- MDLQA-11 In a Q & A forum students must post first before they can view other posts
- MDLQA-12 A teacher can set one of 4 possible forum subscription options
- MDLQA-2 Students can edit or delete their forum posts within a set time limit
- MDLQA-3 A teacher can set one of 3 possible options for tracking read forum posts
- MDLQA-13 A teacher can set one of 5 possible forum rating aggregation types
- MDLQA-14 A teacher can choose a grading scale for rating forum posts and can restrict rating to within certain dates
- MDLQA-15 A teacher can block students from posting in a forum after they post a certain number of posts in a given period
- MDLQA-5 Students can choose from 4 discussion display options and their choice is remembered
- MDLQA-4 Teachers can split discussions and can move discussions between forums in the same course
- MDLQA-16 Teachers can edit or delete any forum post
Glossary module
- MDLQA-31 In a glossary activity, students can add entries including attaching files
- MDLQA-32 Glossary entries can be searched or browsed by alphabet, category, date or author
- MDLQA-33 A teacher can set whether glossary entries are always editable
- MDLQA-34 A teacher can set that glossary entries require approval before being viewable by everyone
- MDLQA-35 A teacher can choose a grading scale for rating glossary entries and can restrict rating to within certain dates
- MDLQA-36 A teacher can set one of 7 possible glossary display formats
- MDLQA-37 Glossary entries can be set to automatically link to elsewhere in the course where the word or phrase is mentioned
- MDLQA-38 A teacher can choose whether to allow duplicate entries in a glossary
- MDLQA-39 A teacher can choose whether to provide a printer-friendly glossary entries list
- Users may be allowed to add comments
- MDLQA-40 An administrator can define a 'global' glossary
- MDLQA-41 A teacher can import and export glossary entries via an XML file
Lesson module
- The Lesson module enables teachers to create a series of pages for students to navigate through in different ways depending upon their choices to questions about the page content.
- Multiple choice, true/false, matching, numeric, short answer and essay questions may be added to lesson pages.
- A time limit for the lesson may be set, with any questions answered after the time is up not counted.
- The lesson may be graded with a set maximum grade and appear in the course gradebook.
- Students may be allowed to retake the lesson and either their maximum or mean grade recorded in the gradebook.
- Students may be allowed to navigate back through the lesson and change their answers.
- The maximum number of attempts allowed for each question may be set.
- A lesson may be displayed as a slide show, with a fixed width, height, and custom background colour. A scroll bar will be displayed if the width or height of the slide is exceeded by the content of a page.
- Access to a lesson may be restricted with a password and/or available from and deadline dates.
- Access to a lesson may be set to be dependent upon performance (time spent, completed, certain grade obtained) in another lesson in the same course.
SCORM module
- The SCORM module enables teachers to add SCORM and AICC packages to their course.
- The package display can be displayed in a frame or window of specified size, with the table of contents (if applicable) shown on the left, in a drop-down menu or hidden.
- The number of attempts (if applicable) can be restricted and grading may be set to highest, first, last or average of attempts.
- A maximum grade and grading method (highest grade, average grade, sum of grades or number of completed/passed Learning Objects for the activity) can be set.
- Students can leave the activity. On their return, students are presented with the same page as the one they left. Progress through the activity is indicated to via checkbox ticks.
- Teachers can access SCORM reports via a 'View reports for x users' link on the SCORM page. Sections of the activity may be marked browsed, incomplete, completed or failed. The time spent on each section is also displayed. If a section includes questions then the score is displayed.
Survey module
- The Survey module enables teachers to gather data from their students via a Constructivist On-Line Learning Environment Survey (COLLES) or a Attitudes to Thinking and Learning Survey (ATTLS).
- Survey data can be viewed by course, student, or question.
- Survey data can also be downloaded as a spreadsheet or text file.
Wiki module
- The Wiki module enables participants to create web pages which anyone can then edit.
- Edited pages may be previewed before saving.
- New pages in the wiki can be created by editing an existing page and typing the title of a new page, enclosing the title text in square brackets.
- A history of each wiki page is available listing author, created and last modified dates and references, plus browse, fetch-back (to revert the page back to a previous version) and diff (showing the difference in two versions) links.
- There are 3 wiki types - teacher (only the teacher can edit the wiki), groups (one wiki per group) and student (every student has their own wiki, which only they and their teacher can edit).
- The HTML mode can be set - no HTML (wiki markup may be used for formatting text), safe HTML (only certain HTML tags are permitted) or HTML only (HTML editor displayed).
- Students may be allowed to add files as attachments (upto the course upload file size limit).
- CamelCase linking may be allowed.
- Students can be allowed certain administrative privileges - set page flags, strip pages, remove pages, revert mass changes
- A teacher can upload content for the initial page via a text file.
Workshop module
- The Workshop module enables teachers to set-up assignment-like activity with advanced grading methods available and peer-grading support
- There are four grading strategies available: Accumulative, Number of errors, Rubric and Comments. Teachers can define assessment form for every supported grading strategy.
- Teachers can prepare set of example submissions and provide reference assessment of them
- Students can submit their work and eventually edit it during the submission phase
- Students can practise assessment procedure on example submissions according to example mode set by the teacher
- Teachers can allocate submissions for peer-assessment randomly and tweak the allocations manually
- Students can peer-assess allocated submissions
- Teachers can set weight of an assessment
- Teachers can evaluate given grades and manually override calculated grades
- Teachers can push the final grades into course gradebook
- Teachers can publish selected submissions after the workshop is closed