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On Improving Automated Self-assessment with Moodle Quizzes: Experiences from a Cryptography Course

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Technology Enhanced Assessment (TEA 2017)

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Although Moodle quizzes are a wide used tool for e-assessment, they present some limitations regarding the possibility to provide randomized quizzes with different questions for each different student. In this paper, we present different approaches to incorporate variables with randomness in questions within Moodle, so that multiple versions of the same question can be generated automatically reducing the workload of the teacher when preparing the quizzes. Furthermore, we explain our experiences in the design and deployment of self-assessed questions, with randomness and feedback, to an online Cryptography course.

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Acknowledgements

This work is partially supported by the Spanish ministry under grants number 785 TIN2014-55243-P, TIN2014-57364-C2-2-R and TIN2015-70054-REDC, and the Catalan AGAUR grant 2014SGR-691.

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  1. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Catalonia

    Cristina Pérez-Solà & Jordi Herrera-Joancomartí

  2. CYBERCAT-Center for Cybersecurity Research of Catalonia, Tarragona, Catalonia

    Cristina Pérez-Solà, Jordi Herrera-Joancomartí & Helena Rifà-Pous

  3. Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, Catalonia

    Helena Rifà-Pous

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  2. Faculty of Computer Science, Multimedia and Telecommunications, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

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Pérez-Solà, C., Herrera-Joancomartí, J., Rifà-Pous, H. (2018). On Improving Automated Self-assessment with Moodle Quizzes: Experiences from a Cryptography Course. In: Ras, E., Guerrero Roldán, A. (eds) Technology Enhanced Assessment. TEA 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 829. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97807-9_14

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