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CodeRunner: automatically e-assessment for computer programming
3 September 2014: CodeRunner: authentic e-assessment for computer programming
Presenter: Richard Lobb, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Hosted by Dr Mathew Hillier, University of Queensland, Australia starting 07:00AM UST/GMT. Duration 54 Minutes.
This session explored the features of CodeRunner; a Moodle question type in which student submitted program code is automatically evaluated against a range of test criteria and a grade assigned.
In introductory programming courses the question might be as simple as “Write a Python function sqrx that returns its parameter squared” however more advanced exercises can also be handled, such as “Modify the compiler discussed in lectures to handle the following language extensions”. The submission is graded by running a series of tests on the submitted code within a sandbox, comparing the output with the expected output. Students receive immediate feedback and are able to resubmit for a small penalty. It is also possible to process the responses to questions in which the student answer is not program code at all. Instead the question type can be used to accept any text as a response which can then be assessed against a set of test criteria defined by the instructor in the form of program code. Coderunner is used at the University of Canterbury for laboratories, assignments and mid-course tests in several courses and is to be used in a final exam for the first time this year. The talk reported on experiences with CodeRunner in several courses and demonstrated the authoring of questions and the range of different questions that can be asked.
Moodle – Timestat Block is now available
Timestat tracks the duration of time a student has a browser window active with Moodle resources or activities displaying. This helps to provide teachers and administrators with information regarding time on task, an important metric for many certification and professional development requirements.
ב-Timestat Block is now available in the Plugin Database, feedback needed | Moodle News.
Couchbase as Memcached Alternative | Couchbase
Replace Your Memcached Tier with #Couchbase Are you dealing with memcached problems like cold cache, heavy contention of RDBMS resources and lack of scale-out flexibility? Couchbase Server, a NoSQL database, can be used as a drop-in replacement for your memcached tier to address these challenges.
Course: EasyOChem Question Types Preview
A #EasyOChem question type demonstration #Moodle course.
Demo Quiz Quick simple – quiz demonstrating a few of the question types:
- Name to Structure Quiz: 1Qpractice: 1
- Curved Arrow / Electron Pushing Qpractices: 2
- Select Atoms, Molecules or Reactions Qpractices: 2
- Drag and Drop Naming (easyoddname) Qpractice: 1
- Newman Projections Quiz: 1Qpractice: 1
- Fischer Projections Quiz: 1
- Lewis Structures (formal charge and non-bonding electrons)
pt-query-digest — Percona Toolkit Documentation
pt-query-digest – Analyze query execution logs and generate a query report, filter, replay, or transform queries for MySQL, PostgreSQL, memcached, and more.
How to load test your Moodle server using Loadstorm
Using this step by step ‘how-to’, you will be able to test how well your Moodle installation would be able to cope with a certain amount of users, using the loadstorm.com service. Whilst this is not a perfect representation of what real life usage of your Moodle installation would be like, it will still give you a very good idea of whether your system is good enough to run Moodle for your expected number of users.
ReadSpeaker – text to speech add-on for Moodle
ReadSpeaker – is a text to speech online reader you can integrate into Moodle. It can help improve you accessibility to English speaking users. See example: Home: System Requirements.
A Quick Look at Piwik Analytics for Moodle | Some Random Thoughts
Two years ago we built and released a Google Analytics feature for Moodle which offered some robust reporting for Moodle – beyond the standard url logging it logged the breadcrumb from Moodle – see here for details. This was released as a plugin on the Moodle plugin directory.
David Bezemer of UP Learning took this concept/plugin and then expanded it to included Piwik an open source analytics system. The plugin is also available in the plugin directory.
Using this plugin requires you to install your own copy of Piwik separately, which you can use for all your websites. So I used it for the Moodlemoot Edinburgh this year, and below include some of the reports that were possible to generate from it.
Download Moodle integration analytics plugin
ב-A Quick Look at Piwik Analytics for Moodle | Some Random Thoughts.
Display your OpenBadges Backpack in Moodle with LTI | Blog de Toni Soto
Link to OpenBadges Backpack from Moodle with LTI
How to use LTI External Tool Activities in Moodle These days I’ve been playing around with LTI Learning Tools Interoperability and Moodle. I wanted to test what else could I do with this tool beyond providing a WP blog account to my School. The number Edu Apps built on LTI that we can use in our classes are increasing more and more everyday.
ב-Display your OpenBadges Backpack in Moodle with LTI | Blog de Toni Soto.