Voting

Choices

Useful for polling, voting or for research questions.Unlike surveys, the choice tool allows you to ask any question you’d like, as long as it’s
multiple-choice. Once you’ve set up your choice, it acts as a poll in your course. Students
click on the choice and select their answer. You can choose when and if students
see the results of the choice and even let them change their minds.

Creating Choices
To create a choice:

1. Click the “Turn editing on” button.
2. Select Choice from the “Add an activity” drop-down menu.
3. On the “Adding a new choice” page, as shown in Figure 14-3, give the choice a
   descriptive name.
4. Enter the question text in the choice text area.
5. Choose whether to limit the number of responses allowed. If this is enabled, each
   response can be assigned a different limit. When the limit is reached, nobody else
   will be able to select the response. If limiting the number of responses is disabled,
   then any number of participants can select each of the responses.
6. Enter responses in each choice field. If you require more than 5 fields, click the
   “Add 3 fields to form” button. You can fill in any number of choice fields—if you
   leave some blank, they will not be displayed.
7. If you want the question to be available for a limited time, click the “Restrict
   answering to this time period” checkbox and set the opening and closing dates and
   times for the choice.
8. Select the miscellaneous options:Display mode
   Choose whether the responses are displayed horizontally or vertically.
   A small number of responses looks better displayed horizontally,
   and a large number of responses and/or long responses
   look better displayed vertically.
   Publish results
   You have four options for revealing the results of the choice to students:
   • Do not publish results to students
   • Show results to students immediately after they answer
   • Show results to students only after the choice is closed (if you’ve set a closing
   time above)
   • Always show results to students
   Privacy of results
   Depending upon your “Publish results” setting, you can choose whether to
   display students’ names with their response in the results.
   Allow choice to be updated
   If you want to allow students to change their minds after they’ve answered,
   set this to Yes. Otherwise, students will be able to answer the question only
   once.
   Show column for unanswered
   This option determines whether students will see the number of people who
   haven’t answered the question when they see the choice results.
9. Select the common module options:
10. Click the “Save changes” button.

Once you’ve created the choice, it will be available to students after the opening time,
if you’ve set one.

Administering Choices
After students have answered the choice, you can see their responses via the “View xx
responses” link at the top right of the choice page. Unlike the students’ view of the
results, irrespective of whether results are published anonymously, you’ll see a column
for each response with the student’s picture and name.

Selected responses may be deleted if you wish. You may like to delete any test response
you made.