Moodle Choice is a simple one-question survey you can use to get quick feedback from your learners about any course topic or activity. For example, instructors use Choice at the end of units to get student feedback on that particular unit. Used over a period of time with many courses, instructors have been able to collect valuable data about specific topics or units, for example, and what types of activities learners prefer or find useful.
The best part is that the Choice tool is quick to set up, and the results are easy to evaluate. Most learners do not mind spending under a minute on a poll. You have two restrictions when creating your informal Choice poll:
To add a Choice activity to your course, follow these steps:
The front page changes to show editing tools, allowing you to change the appearance and add functionality to your course.
You see the Adding a New Choice screen, as shown in Figure 7-7. The selections follow a similar format of other Moodle activities.
It's useful to use descriptive names, especially if you will use Choices frequently.
By enabling a limit, you choose how many responses are allowed for each option available for learners to select; when the limit is reached, no other student can select the response. If you disable the limit, each of the responses can be selected by any number of students.
Moodle provides five Choice fields by default.
Your choices are
See Chapter 3 for a rundown of the Common Module Settings.
Moodle saves your settings and returns to your course front page. Notice that Choice has its own unique icon, and it also appears in the Activities block, the Upcoming Events block, and the course calendar.
To keep track of Choice responses and gather feedback, Moodle has a View [number] Survey Responses link that appears in the top-right corner of the Choice page. Clicking the link takes you to a Responses page (shown in Figure 7-10) where you see the students, their replies, and tools to organize and maintain the responses. (You see the student names even if you selected in the Privacy of Results field the option to post anonymous results; the anonymity means only that participating students and guests cannot see other participants.)
You can delete selected responses from the With Selected drop-down list. You also have links to Select All/Deselect All right above the drop-down list. This saves you from moving from student to student when you want to delete a large group of responses.
Moodle also features download functionality so that you can save data in industry-standard formats. You have three choices: Download in ODS (Open Document Spreadsheet) Format, Download in Excel Format, and Download in Text Format. Select the format you want to use to download your data, click the button, and follow the instructions.