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Carry out a choice
Goals:
Carry out a quick course-wide voting with your students. Limit the time for the vote and, if necessary, conduct it anonymously.
Difficulty: easy
Valid from Moodle Version 4.2
Create activity
Create a "Choice" as described in this guide.
Enter options
In the activity settings, now enter the options for the possible student responses. In our example, a vote is made on two dates of an excursion.
Note: In this section you have three settings available. With "Allow choice to be updated" you define whether students are allowed to change their opinion after a vote has already been made. With "Allow more than one choice to be selected" you can define if students can give their vote to more than one option. With the third parameter "Limit the number of responses allowed" you define how many students can vote for an answer at all. This option is useful, for example, if voting is used to divide up seminar topics.
Note on group mode: The upper limit refers to each individual group. This means that each group, with an upper limit of 4, has 4 votes regardless of the other groups. With 3 groups, a total of 12 votes are therefore possible.
Enter settings and save
Now define the settings. For example, it is recommended to activate the availability if the voting has to take place in a certain period of time.
Furthermore, you can use the parameter "Publish results" to determine whether or when the results are visible to students. If this is set, you can also determine whether the voting should be anonymous or with the names of the students (parameter "Privacy of results").
To create the activity, click on "Save and display".
Check preview
The vote has been successfully created and you will see a preview. There will also be an indication for both students and teachers whether the names of the students are visible in the voting. To view the results of the voting, open the "Responses" tab.
View responses
In this view you can now see the names of the students in the respective answer columns. You can see that the option "October 25th 6 pm" received one vote (from Max Muster).
Tip: In teaching practice, it occasionally happens that students cannot vote for certain reasons. However, teachers can vote for students. To do this, you need to activate the parameter "Show column for unanswered" in the activity settings. Then you can activate the checkboxes next to the students' names and set the answer for the selected students with the parameter "With selected".
Further information
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