Using moodle platform as a tool for the continuous assessment of students in european higher education area

Abstract

One of the main changes European Higher Education Area (EHEA) is related to the continuous assessment system of the student work throughout the course. In this sense, the work environment that provides Web 2.0 is presented as a really useful tool to achieve this kind of continuous assessment. The University of Burgos introduced in 2009-2010 a new virtual campus system based on Moodle platform, for the new Bachelor and Master degrees. Moodle has a large number of modules and activities that can be used by teachers to assess the teaching-learning process. One of the most useful option in Moodle to evaluate a large group of students is the questionnaire module, which will allow the teacher to design a large number of individual questionnaires, one different for each student, that can be fill and corrected on-line. This paper presents this application for questionnaires in Moodle and the variety of options available to generate them as a tool for a continuous assessment of the students.