How Digital Technologies Are Changing Assessment Approaches in Education

4. Examples of Good Practice

Formative quizzes in Moodle: allow multiple attempts and provide feedback that helps students learn from mistakes, while giving instructors immediate insight into how well students have understood concepts or mastered required routines.

E-portfolios and learning journals: provide students with space to document progress, reflect, and demonstrate the application of knowledge. Journals in Moodle enable the instructor to monitor progress and give real-time feedback.

Peer assessment: digital tools enable students to evaluate and comment on the work of their peers, fostering critical thinking. In Moodle, the Workshop activity can be used for both summative and formative peer assessment, while the Forum can be used for formative assessment.

Artificial intelligence as support: AI-supported tools can offer suggestions for improving essays or analysing language, but always under instructor supervision to preserve the pedagogical purpose of assessment.

Learning environments and systems with learning analytics: the use of data to monitor student engagement and identify difficulties early. Moodle allows instructors to track activities, engagement, and progress in aggregated form (for groups or subgroups of students) as well as for each individual student.

Self-assessment: students evaluate their own progress in relation to learning outcomes and success criteria, thereby developing metacognition. In Moodle, self-assessment can be implemented through surveys, questionnaires, or reflection journals, supported by digital forms and rubrics that help students structure their self-assessment.