Video Assessment Module

Language students often fear having to perform oral presentations, role-plays, interviews, and other skill demonstrations. For many reasons, it is also difficult for teachers to assess these performances and provide quick, effective feedback that fosters learning, confidence, and motivation.

During a 12-year action research project trialling various methods, a team of teachers developed the Video Assessment Module (VAM), a purpose-built Moodle plugin for rubric-based formative assessment of video-recorded performances. Unlike Moodle’s default assignment and forum tools, VAM is specifically designed for performance assessment: it allows students to upload videos of their skill demonstrations and enables self-feedback, peer feedback, and teacher feedback to be combined easily and asynchronously on the same recording.

Teachers can use VAM for a wide range of performance-based activities, including oral presentation assessment, job interview practice, role-plays, and other live skill demonstrations. Students better understand how to improve after receiving these three kinds of structured feedback.