Listening is an important skill for many fields and positions, and tests usually contain a listening component. In this chapter, we have gone over some of the ways you can add listening items to your Moodle-based tests, but we have by no means gone through all of them. We have looked at how to upload audio, insert a player, and gone through how to create a variety of question types in a variety of activities. All these things can be extremely useful when testing. However, we really have only scratched the surface.

There are so many plugins and additional hacks and players and resources that we simply don't have the space to get into here, although the Moodle MP3 Player for Tests mentioned earlier is something you will probably want to set up on your site.

What we have done in this chapter is given you the basic tools you need to get started with testing listening. When you come to something you want to try out that wasn't covered here, you should have the building blocks to learn more yourself. If you want to learn more or ask questions about how to do something, the forum http://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=1301 in the Moodle Language Teaching area focuses on using listening. While it is not the most active of forums, there are many members and they are almost certainly able and willing to help with issues you come across.

One final note, many of the activities described in this chapter will take up a lot of space. Your system administrator may not be happy with large files being uploaded to Moodle. Before you begin uploading a lot of video or audio files, you might want to check with the system administrator to let them know what you want to do and make sure there aren't any problems or space issues. They will appreciate it!

Now that we have looked at listening tests, we will move on and look at some reading test options in Moodle.