Abstract This review discusses Moodle quizzes and their potential usefulness for formative assessment of academic writing. Moodle quizzes offer a wide variety of possibilities for the development of formative writing assessment. This is due to the impressive repertoire of choices with regard to specific tasks and to quiz design options available in Moodle. The key strength of Moodle quizzes, as used for formative assessment, is in supporting a sustained engagement with learning and offering multi-layered tutor feedback functionalities. However, Moodle quizzes come short of accommodating some of the essential features of formative writing assessment, such as peer review/feedback and a dialogic nature of student-tutor interactions. While the development of Moodle quizzes may require time and effort, in particular as related to navigating quiz design settings and understanding Moodle-specific and often counterintuitive language use, Moodle quizzes can prove valuable not only for formative assessment of academic writing, but also for giving reassurance to students that writing provision offered to them at universities is tailored to their specific needs and academic aspirations.

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Moodle 测验及其对学术写作形成性评估的可用性

摘要 本综述讨论了 Moodle 测验及其对学术写作形成性评估的潜在用途。Moodle 测验为形成性写作评估的发展提供了多种可能性。这是由于 Moodle 中提供的关于特定任务和测验设计选项的令人印象深刻的选择。用于形成性评估的 Moodle 测验的主要优势在于支持持续参与学习并提供多层次的导师反馈功能。然而，Moodle 测验未能满足形成性写作评估的一些基本特征，例如同行评审/反馈和学生与导师互动的对话性质。虽然 Moodle 测验的开发可能需要时间和精力，