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You have the opportunity to earn a digital badge and a completion certificate for this course. This page explains how to

  • complete the Consolidated Formative Assessment to earn a partial completion badge, and
  • submit an integrated activity to earn your Assessor badge and a completion certificate.


To get an overview of the certification for this course go to Certification Overview
To do the Consolidated Formative Assessment now, log into Moodle and complete the Consolidated Formative Assessment. For more information, read the questions below.
To complete the integrated activity go to An Integrated Activity

How does it work?

To earn a partial completion badge for this course, you must successfully complete a consolidated formative assessment online. This assessment covers selected concepts in this course. Learners who have worked through the course materials, learning challenges and quizzes on the course site will have all the learning materials they need to be able to pass the test.

Overview of consolidated formative assessment
Number of Activity quiz questions 11
Number of True-False questions 8
Estimated time required 20 – 30 minutes
Pass mark to earn the certification Minimum of 80% of answers correct
Number of test attempts allowed Unlimited

The online assessment is administered through the Moodle website associated with this course. The OER Foundation has donated use of the OERu’s Moodle site for this purpose.

Can I prepare for the test?

Yes! At the end of the learning challenges in Week One and Week Two, you will find an Activity Example quiz and a Summative or Formative quiz respectively, together with feedback on correct and incorrect answers. These are the same questions that are used in the Consolidated Formative Assessment to earn a partial completion badge. You can check the quizzes for each learning challenge by visiting the following links:

Honour pledge for test takers

We expect learners taking the knowledge participation test to uphold the highest standards of academic integrity.

All questions are published on the course site, which you can review and practise before taking the test. If you are unsuccessful in the test attempt, you will be able to re-sit the test in accordance with the number of permissible attempts published on this page. However, while taking the test, you should not receive help. (This does not prohibit help required by learners with a disability, such as using a human or automated reader.)

All test takers will be required to affirm the following statement before attempting the test:

“I affirm that I have not given or received any unauthorised help while taking the test, and that this work is my own.”

In the event that the OER Foundation identifies breaches of this honour code, we reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to withdraw any badges or certificates that have been issued to you and/or to ban your user account on all websites maintained by the OER Foundation.

Can I trial the technology before I take the knowledge test?

Yes! If you have not taken an online test before, or have not used the Moodle platform, we have created a practice test for you to familiarise yourself with the online test environment. Try it!

  1. Log in to the OERu Moodle site, How to take an online test:
    • If you are a new user and don’t have an account, click on the “Create new account” button on the bottom of the page. Follow the instructions to verify your account in the email we send (check your spam folder if you don’t receive this email.)
    • For existing OERu Moodle users, log in with your username and password for this site. (You can retrieve log-in credentials by clicking on the “Forgotten your username or password?” link.)
  2. Click on the course: How to take an online test, and follow the instructions on screen.

Where do I take the knowledge test?

The knowledge test is administered through Moodle.

Moodle Knowledge Test URL: https://moodle.oeru.org/course/view.php?id=58&section=4

  1. Log in to the AS4ODFL Moodle site
    • If you are a new user and don’t have an account, click on the “Create new account” button on the bottom of the page. Follow the instructions to verify your account in the email we send (check your spam folder if you don’t receive this email.) The enrolment key is: ppodl (all lowercase)
    • For existing OERu Moodle users, log in with your username and password for this site. (You can retrieve log-in credentials by clicking on the “Forgotten your username or password?” link.)

What can I do with a digital badge?

You can:

  • display the badge that you earn on your profile page on the moodle.oeru.org site,
  • download a copy of the badge, and
  • share a unique link with employers and other interested people, to verify that the badge was issued by the OERu site. This unique link provides access to a webpage that publishes the details of the issuer and criteria used to issue the badge.