Moodle 3.8 - 21 Choice | What is a Choice in Moodle
Moodle 3.8 - 21 Choice | What is a Choice in Moodle
Choice: allow voting
It's sometimes useful to be able to see
at a glance how your learners are
progressing or to gauge their opinions
or needs. Moodle has an activity called
Choice which allows teachers to set up
voting options with radio buttons and a
learner chooses a particular option. It
doesn't only have to be how well you
feel you're progressing,
for example in this choice, the students
are asked to select a group for their
project work.
As a teacher you can always see the
responses because you have a View
responses link to take you into the
reports and if anyone fails to make a
choice you can make the selection on
their behalf.
Let's go into our course and set up a
Choice.
To do this we need to turn the editing
on and then
in the section where we'd like to add
our choice voting activity we click the
link Add an activity or resource. This
brings up Moodle's activity chooser.
Choice is an activity because students
are interacting with Moodle and when we
click the button once we see that there
are various examples on the right of how
you could use a choice activity with a
link to More help. We can click Add at
the bottom or simply click the radio
button twice to take us to the setup
screen. The first thing to do is give it a
name which will identify it on the
course page for our learners and we can
give a description if we wish and tick
the box to display this description on
the course page.
If we're only going to have a few
options which will show as radio buttons
we can display them horizontally; if we
think we're going to need a lot then we
can choose to display them vertically
instead.
If we allow the choice to be updated, a
learner can change their mind.
This might be useful if for example it's
a choice about progress through the
course and they might not be too sure of
their progress on Monday but they feel
more confident on Wednesday. You can
enable the setting to allow participants
to make more than one selection if you
think it's appropriate, for instance when
choosing preferred meeting times. If we
limit the number of responses allowed in
only a certain number may choose each
option.
This might be useful if you need to put
students into groups or simply if you
want to give them all a chocolate bar
and you only have 10 of one particular
type of chocolate bar!
We then type in the options which we
want to see against the radio buttons in
each of these boxes. If we need more we
can click to add more. There are other
settings which might be useful to
explore to later date such as
availability, if you want to set a time
limit to the voting, and results if you
want to decide whether or not you want
your learners to see each other's
choices, and if you do, whether or not you
want them to see the names of the
students who have chosen or not. You
might also wish to select to show a
column for unanswered.
This means then you can see instantly
who hasn't done this task because they
will appear in a column of their own and
you may make the selection for them.
e just need to scroll down and click
Save and return to course and we have
set up a voting activity - a Choice - for
our learners.
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