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What is the Choice activity?

The Choice activity allows you to ask a question and set up radio buttons which learners can click to make a selection from a number of possible responses. They can choose one or more option and they can update their selection if you allow them. Choices can be useful as quick poll to stimulate thinking about a topic; to allow the class to vote on a direction for the course, or to gauge progress.

Overview of the Choice activity

How is it set up?

In a course, with the editing turned on, choose 'Choice' from the activity chooser.
Give it a name and, if needed, a description.
Expand Options to add the options you want learners to select from. They may change their mind (update their selection) and make more than one selection if you wish. If you change Limit the number of responses allowed to Yes, then you must add limits for each option, or the options will all be shown as full.
In Results, decide how you want results to be displayed. See Teacher view below.
Expand the other settings to configure the activity as you wish, and then save it.

How does it work?

Student view

Learners click on the Choice icon on the course page and make one or more selections according to the teacher's settings.

Student view of choice

How (and if) the results are displayed depends on the teacher's settings.

Teacher view

As a teacher, you can always see the results, but you can also choose whether or not to allow learners to see each other's choices and whether or not to allow them to see the names or merely the percentage of votes.

You can download their responses in a variety of formats. Responses may be 'published', i.e. made visible once the learner has made a selection, or visible once the choice is closed.

Choice options may be restricted so only a certain number may make a particular selection, and you can also opt to display a column showing who have not made their selection.

You can make a selection on behalf of a student if necessary, for example if they are absent from class or else unable to get online.

Teacher view of choice results

More information

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-{{Choice}}
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-<p class="note">'''Please refer to [[TOC_with_notes#Choice|these notes]] before editing this page.'''</p>
+__NOTOC__
+==What is the Choice activity?==
+The Choice activity allows you to ask a question and set up radio buttons which learners can click to make a selection from a number of possible responses. They can choose one or more option and they can update their selection if you allow them. Choices can be useful as quick poll to stimulate thinking about a topic; to allow the class to vote on a direction for the course, or to gauge progress.
-[[Image:Choices_Icon.GIF]] A '''choice''' [[Teacher_documentation#Activity_modules|activity]] is very simple – the teacher asks a question and specifies a choice of multiple responses. It can be useful as a quick poll to stimulate thinking about a topic; to allow the class to vote on a direction for the course; or to gather research consent.
+{{MediaPlayer | url = https://youtu.be/CvyP7u5QX_4 | desc = Overview of the Choice activity}}
-Choice requires some preparation time for creating your activity and thinking about what results you would like to achieve, but your participation with activity itself is likely to be minimal.
+==How is it set up?==
+#In a course, with the editing turned on, choose 'Choice' from the activity chooser.
+#Give it a name and, if needed, a description.
+# Expand Options to add the options you want learners to select from. They may change their mind (update their selection) and make more than one selection if you wish. If you change Limit the number of responses allowed to Yes, then you must add limits for each option, or the options will all be shown as full.
+#In Results, decide how you want results to be displayed. See Teacher view below.
+#Expand the other settings to configure the activity as you wish, and then save it.
-==Educational Benefits of Using Choice==
+==How does it work?==
-Pedagogically, the choice activity can be used to provide an opportunity to share starting points through which learners are encouraged to think about and articulate existing knowledge and understandings of a topic. For example, you can ask students to make ‘choices’ about a statement such as “in learning to become a teacher, the most significant issue for me is” (giving the following choices): trust, theoretical underpinnings, communication or delivering materials to students.
+==Student view==
+Learners click on the Choice icon on the course page and make one or more selections according to the teacher's settings.
-This has two benefits: firstly, it forces participants to engage with their choice and think, in advance of a further related activity (you might wish to follow up such a choice activity with a forum discussion or a reflective activity like the online text assignment), about the context and consequences of this choice. Secondly, it allows tutors and students to gain a better understanding of existing views/understandings/knowledge related to the question, idea or concept at hand in the Choice activity.
+[[File:choicestudentview.png|thumb|center|500px|Student view of choice]]
-The choice activity in Moodle only allows a participant to select one choice from a variety of options (that you provide), but you may set the activity so that participants can change their choices.  You can also set the activity so that it ‘closes’ or ‘locks down’ on a specific date, making all choices final from that point on.  This allows participants to change their minds several times before a final date.
+How (and if)  the results are displayed depends on the teacher's settings.
-== See also ==
+===Teacher view===
-* [[Using Moodle book]] Chapter 14: Surveys and Choices
+As a teacher, you can always see the results, but you can also choose whether or not to allow learners to see each other's choices and whether or not to allow them to see the names or merely the percentage of votes.
-* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shkelQDKbtM Choice module video]
-* [[Choice block]] - a 3rd party block
-Using Moodle forum discussions:
+You can download their responses in a variety of formats. Responses may be 'published', i.e. made visible once the learner has made a selection, or visible once the choice is closed.
-* [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=43536 Have Your Students "Sign" an Agreement]
-* [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=145882 Creative Uses?]
+Choice options may be restricted so only a certain number may make a particular selection,  and you can also opt to display a column showing  who have not made their selection.
+You can make a selection on behalf of a student if necessary, for example if they are absent from class or else unable to get online.
+[[File:choiceresults.png|thumb|500px|center|Teacher view of choice results]]
+==More information==
+*[[Choice settings]]
+*[[Using Choice]]
+*[[Choice FAQ]]
-[[Category:Modules]]
 [[cs:Modul Anketa]]
 [[de:Abstimmung]]
-[[es:Consulta]]
+[[es:Actividad de elección]]
 [[eu:Inkesta]]
 [[fr:Sondage]]
 [[ja:投票]]

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