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Using Moodle
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Using Moodle

by Jason Cole
July 2005
Intermediate to advanced
240 pages
5h 27m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Chapter 14. Surveys and Choices

Moodle has two tools specifically designed for collecting ungraded feedback from your students: surveys and choices. Surveys are a set of predetermined questions already developed by the Moodle developers. Currently, there is no way to create your own survey questions in a survey. This option is planned, but it isn’t yet ready. The current surveys focus on getting feedback from students about the nature of the course.

Choices are little, 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 once question long and has a maximum of six answers.

Creating Surveys

The limited nature of the surveys tool makes surveys very easy to create. Basically, you select the set of prewritten questions you’d like to give, edit the introductory text, and you’re done.

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, ...

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