This short paper reports on the case of a tertiary level French language
practitioner self-training in using Moodle Quiz during the Covid-19 pandemic
online emergency remote teaching (Hodges et al., 2020). As no teacher
training program included a topic such as ‘how to deal with the pandemic’,
switching to online teaching was done under emergency conditions (MacIntyre,
Gregersen, & Mercer, 2020). The practitioner had taken advantage of the
situation and explored ways of self-training. She took advantage of Moodle
Quiz (MQ) affordances. She experimented with different ways MQ could be used
to construct a diverse number of quiz activities, embedded with audio and
video, infused with elements of constructivism, and aiming at catering for
the aims and expected outcomes of the specific students and course.
Self-training helped the practitioner face the challenges of online
emergency teaching as she developed knowledge, skills, and experiences
necessary for creating online interactive activities.