Role playing in Moodle

Have you ever thought that the multiple choice quizzes in Moodle would provide a convenient method of formative assessment—if only you had the time to create the questions. Well what if, as Mary Parke suggests, you had your students create the questions?

In Moodle 1.9 you can assign your students the role of Question creator.

You could then ask students to:

• contribute a question or two on the topic they have just studied, or
• create questions that test their peers' knowledge of a presentation they have given.

You then group the questions into a quiz which the students take for homework. There are lots of useful things a teacher can do with roles.