Using Moodle, 2nd Edition

Chapter 14. Surveys and Choices

Moodle has two tools specifically designed for collecting ungraded feedback from your students: surveys and choices.

A survey is a set of predetermined questions. It’s not yet possible to create your own questions in a survey unless you install a nonstandard module such as Questionnaire or Feedback. The current survey focuses on getting feedback from students about the nature of the course.

Choices are small, one-question surveys. They act as small web polls that you may have seen on other web sites. You can use a choice to get rapid feedback from your students about any topic you wish, as long as it’s only one question long.

Surveys

This section covers the following MTC skills: 5.6 Survey

There are three types of surveys you can give:

COLLES (Constructivist On-Line Learning Environment Survey)

This is a set of 24 statements that asks students about the relevance of the course, provides opportunities for reflection and interactivity, provides peer and tutor support, and facilitates interpretation. These factors are based on social constructivist theory, as discussed in Chapter 1. Variations on the survey ask students to discuss their preferred learning environment or the actual learning environment. Moodle offers three types of COLLES surveys: preferred, actual, or a combination of the two. The preferred COLLES survey asks students to discuss how they think they want to interact with a course, while the actual COLLES survey asks them how they are interacting ...