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Adding/editing a questionnaire

2009-07-25T16:33:00Z

Curiouspatrick: /* Save/Resume answers */ deleted duplicate phrase

{{Questionnaire}}

==Name==

Give your questionnaire a name (e.g. “Course Evaluation”). The name entered here will be the name that learners see in the course content area. Learners will click on this name to view the questionnaire form.

==Summary==

Provide a summary of the assignment if necessary. There will be options later to add instructions and information for completing the questionnaire.

==Open/Close dates==

Set the date window for when users can complete the questionnaire. You can leave the boxes unchecked if you want the questionnaire to be continually available.

==Type==

Decide whether users are allowed to respond once or can repeatedly respond to adjust their feedback.

==Respondent Type==

Determine whether the questionnaire will be submitted anonymously or with the user's name. You will still need to be logged in to a course to complete the questionnaire.

==Respondent Eligibility==

Decide whether everyone can answer or whether you want to restrict it to tutor only or student only responses. For restricted access options remember to assign the correct roles either at the course or activity level. For example, if you put a questionnaire on the front page, intended for teachers only, then you will have to let Moodle know which users are teachers.

==Questionnaire type==

;Private
:Only available on the course it was set up in.

;Public
:Allows the questionnaire to be shared across multiple courses. Questions/content are maintained by the original creator.

;Template
:Creates a template for a questionnaire that can be used when new questionnaires are created. This questionnaire is not used directly but stored for future use.

==Save/Resume answers==

Decide whether the questionnaire can be saved and completed over a period of time, or whether it needs to be completed in one go.

==Survey Options==

;Create new
:Define a new set of survey questions and responses

;Copy existing
:Use a previously created template as the basis for your questionnaire - you can edit some questions/content.

;Use public
:Use a previously created public survey - you cannot edit the questions/content.
;Create new

==Public questionnaire roll out to multiple courses==

It is possible to create a Public questionnaire which can be placed in several simultaneous courses, yet the responses are not visible to the teachers of those courses. In fact, the responses are only accessible in the original public questionnaire. A good application of this setup is for course evaluations which you want students to take. In such an example, you don't want your instructors to view or alter those responses.

Here's how you do it:
<ol>
<li>Create a course that will simply be a shell for any public questionnaires. Give it whatever title you like. You can hide the course entirely. </li>
<li>Create your questionnaire in this course. Be sure to select '''Public''' for the questionnaire type.</li>
<li>Build all of the questionnaire questions in this public questionnaire.</li>
<li>Navigate to the course where you want to place the questionnaire for respondents.</li>
<li>Select the option to add a questionnaire. Complete the creation screen. For Type, select Respond once. For Respondent Eligibility, select Students only. '''For Questionnaire type, select Private.''' Then select the public questionnaire you created in the other course.</li>
<li>After you save your changes, the same screen will appear. Note that the questionnaire type now says "Public," and the selected public questionnaire is shown below.</li>
<li>Test it out! Student responses will appear in the original questionnaire, but will not be visible at all in the local questionnaire. Teachers will be able to preview the survey, but will not be able to respond to it or to view responses.</li>
</ol>

[[Category:Teacher]]

Adding/editing a questionnaire

2009-03-14T03:27:00Z

Curiouspatrick: /* Questionnaire type */

{{Questionnaire}}

==Name==

Give your questionnaire a name (e.g. “Course Evaluation”). The name entered here will be the name that learners see in the course content area. Learners will click on this name to view the questionnaire form.

==Summary==

Provide a summary of the assignment if necessary. There will be options later to add instructions and information for completing the questionnaire.

==Open/Close dates==

Set the date window for when users can complete the questionnaire. You can leave the boxes unchecked if you want the questionnaire to be continually available.

==Type==

Decide whether users are allowed to respond once or can repeatedly respond to adjust their feedback.

==Respondent Type==

Determine whether the questionnaire will be submitted anonymously or with the user's name. You will still need to be logged in to a course to complete the questionnaire.

==Respondent Eligibility==

Decide whether everyone can answer or whether you want to restrict it to tutor only or student only responses. For restricted access options remember to assign the correct roles either at the course or activity level. For example, if you put a questionnaire on the front page, intended for teachers only, then you will have to let Moodle know which users are teachers.

==Questionnaire type==

;Private
:Only available on the course it was set up in.

;Public
:Allows the questionnaire to be shared across multiple courses. Questions/content are maintained by the original creator.

;Template
:Creates a template for a questionnaire that can be used when new questionnaires are created. This questionnaire is not used directly but stored for future use.

==Save/Resume answers==

Decide whether the questionnaire can be saved and completed over a period of time, or whether it needs to be completed in one go.
completed in one go

==Survey Options==

;Create new
:Define a new set of survey questions and responses

;Copy existing
:Use a previously created template as the basis for your questionnaire - you can edit some questions/content.

;Use public
:Use a previously created public survey - you cannot edit the questions/content.
;Create new

==Public questionnaire roll out to multiple courses==

It is possible to create a Public questionnaire which can be placed in several simultaneous courses, yet the responses are not visible to the teachers of those courses. In fact, the responses are only accessible in the original public questionnaire. A good application of this setup is for course evaluations which you want students to take. In such an example, you don't want your instructors to view or alter those responses.

Here's how you do it:
<ol>
<li>Create a course that will simply be a shell for any public questionnaires. Give it whatever title you like. You can hide the course entirely. </li>
<li>Create your questionnaire in this course. Be sure to select '''Public''' for the questionnaire type.</li>
<li>Build all of the questionnaire questions in this public questionnaire.</li>
<li>Navigate to the course where you want to place the questionnaire for respondents.</li>
<li>Select the option to add a questionnaire. Complete the creation screen. For Type, select Respond once. For Respondent Eligibility, select Students only. '''For Questionnaire type, select Private.''' Then select the public questionnaire you created in the other course.</li>
<li>After you save your changes, the same screen will appear. Note that the questionnaire type now says "Public," and the selected public questionnaire is shown below.</li>
<li>Test it out! Student responses will appear in the original questionnaire, but will not be visible at all in the local questionnaire. Teachers will be able to preview the survey, but will not be able to respond to it or to view responses.</li>
</ol>

[[Category:Teacher]]

Adding/editing a questionnaire

2009-03-14T03:25:16Z

Curiouspatrick: /* Name */ changed example name to preempt confusion, since there's another module called Feedback

{{Questionnaire}}

==Name==

Give your questionnaire a name (e.g. “Course Evaluation”). The name entered here will be the name that learners see in the course content area. Learners will click on this name to view the questionnaire form.

==Summary==

Provide a summary of the assignment if necessary. There will be options later to add instructions and information for completing the questionnaire.

==Open/Close dates==

Set the date window for when users can complete the questionnaire. You can leave the boxes unchecked if you want the questionnaire to be continually available.

==Type==

Decide whether users are allowed to respond once or can repeatedly respond to adjust their feedback.

==Respondent Type==

Determine whether the questionnaire will be submitted anonymously or with the user's name. You will still need to be logged in to a course to complete the questionnaire.

==Respondent Eligibility==

Decide whether everyone can answer or whether you want to restrict it to tutor only or student only responses. For restricted access options remember to assign the correct roles either at the course or activity level. For example, if you put a questionnaire on the front page, intended for teachers only, then you will have to let Moodle know which users are teachers.

==Questionnaire type==
Template
;Private
:Only available on the course it was set up in.

;Public
:Allows the questionnaire to be shared across multiple courses. Questions/content are maintained by the original creator.

;Template
:Creates a template for a questionnaire that can be used when new questionnaires are created. This questionnaire is not used directly but stored for future use.

==Save/Resume answers==

Decide whether the questionnaire can be saved and completed over a period of time, or whether it needs to be completed in one go.
completed in one go

==Survey Options==

;Create new
:Define a new set of survey questions and responses

;Copy existing
:Use a previously created template as the basis for your questionnaire - you can edit some questions/content.

;Use public
:Use a previously created public survey - you cannot edit the questions/content.
;Create new

==Public questionnaire roll out to multiple courses==

It is possible to create a Public questionnaire which can be placed in several simultaneous courses, yet the responses are not visible to the teachers of those courses. In fact, the responses are only accessible in the original public questionnaire. A good application of this setup is for course evaluations which you want students to take. In such an example, you don't want your instructors to view or alter those responses.

Here's how you do it:
<ol>
<li>Create a course that will simply be a shell for any public questionnaires. Give it whatever title you like. You can hide the course entirely. </li>
<li>Create your questionnaire in this course. Be sure to select '''Public''' for the questionnaire type.</li>
<li>Build all of the questionnaire questions in this public questionnaire.</li>
<li>Navigate to the course where you want to place the questionnaire for respondents.</li>
<li>Select the option to add a questionnaire. Complete the creation screen. For Type, select Respond once. For Respondent Eligibility, select Students only. '''For Questionnaire type, select Private.''' Then select the public questionnaire you created in the other course.</li>
<li>After you save your changes, the same screen will appear. Note that the questionnaire type now says "Public," and the selected public questionnaire is shown below.</li>
<li>Test it out! Student responses will appear in the original questionnaire, but will not be visible at all in the local questionnaire. Teachers will be able to preview the survey, but will not be able to respond to it or to view responses.</li>
</ol>

[[Category:Teacher]]

Development:Outcomes examples

2008-12-01T03:23:31Z

Curiouspatrick: cleaned up list display and added header

Related to: [[Development:Outcomes]]

Please add some "user stories" that explain possible scenarios of the grading process via outcomes, showing what it could look like and how it works.

== Example: British Higher National Diplomas ==

Hi,

I'll make a stab at an "user story" which I am working on now:

We run British HE qualifications called Higher National Diplomas, awarded by Edexcel / BTEC. The qualification has 16 units (classes) and each unit has defined Outcomes/Assessment criteria - see the Outcomes attachment that I posted here... http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=63577
(same post but with an attachment) for an example.

There are almost always 4 outcomes in these units, and each outcome has 3-7 assessment criteria.

For a student to "pass" a unit, he must produce evidence for ALL assessment criteria. The teacher is responsible to create a number of assignments (we recommend 3), each of which will cover a subset of the total assessment criteria for the unit. All together, the assignments for the unit will (must!) provide the opportunity to cover all assessment criteria - and depending on the unit and assignment structure, some assessment critera may be covered multiple times.

Each assignment is graded for the assessment criteria on a Met/Not Met basis. The results are then tracked in a rubric - see the second attachment for a rough idea, where the number in the matrix refers to the assignment number where the evidence was produced.

Students who miss some criteria on a particular assignment may be given a "referral", or opportunity to resubmit. Or the unit may be structured in a way that the assessment criteria appears in a later assignment as well. This is up to the teacher, based on his assigment design.

If a student meets all PASS assessment criteria, then the work is graded for MERIT and DISTINCTION.

In these Edexcel programs, there are 3 broad Merit criteria and 3 broad Distinction critera (hence the shorthand for M1,M2, M3. D1, D...). However, unlike the pass criteria, which are set in the course specification, the M/D grading requires the teacher to rewrite the broad indicators in the context of the particular assignment. The requirements for M and D grading criteria are made clear to the student on each assignment brief.

Like the Pass critera, the M/D criteria are then graded in a rubric on a Met/Not Met basis, with reference to the assignment number where the evidence is produced. Also, there may be multiple possibilities to get a particular M/D in the various assignments.

The students final grade for the unit is a MERIT only if all pass criteria are met, and M1,M2,M3.

The students final grade for the unit is a DISTINCTION only if a MERIT plus D1,D2,D3 is met

'''In an ideal solution:'''

# the Outcomes/pass assessment criteria would be imported to a particular Moodle course
# the teacher would create the assignment in Moodle, attach the Outcomes and Assessment critera that are covered in that assignment as a subset from above, and attach and contextualise the M/D criteria
# students would submit their work, which could be either one or multiple files, links or descriptions of physical work with a digital archive, thereby creating a rudimentary portfolio
# teachers would grade according to the rubric, and either send work back for re-submission or post to the "gradebook" - in this case the matrix of Pass and M/D assessment criteria.
# Feedback should be made by the teacher for the overall assignment and for each Pass Merit and Distinction criteria on that particular assignment
# At the end of the class, a final grade of P/M/D could be either extracted automatically or manually by the teacher, and posted to a transcript area either in Moodle or an external SIS.

'''Comments and thoughts:'''

* numeric grades are irrelevant and confusing in this system, so best if they could be turned on/off
* the roadmap spec for competencies should meet our needs, although a slight reworking of the assignment module would be ideal for us
* a portfolio system that locked down the evidence for each assignment submission would also be highly desirable
* Edexcel / BTEC curriculum is widely used in the UK and around the world. From what I have seen of similar HE competency tracking in US systems, with the addition of numeric grading for each assessment criteria (0-4 GPA or %), it should be easily used there too.

RSS feeds FAQ

2008-09-23T22:14:43Z

Curiouspatrick:

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==What's the deal with RSS feeds for Moodle blogs?==

It appears that there is only one RSS feed for blogs on a Moodle site, and it contains all of the posts published to "Anyone in the world", and only those posts.

==See also==

* Using Moodle [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=7170 RSS Feeds forum]

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[[Category:FAQ]]

Capabilities/mod/forum:splitdiscussions

2008-01-29T14:29:14Z

Curiouspatrick: description of splitting and reason for use

*This allows a user to split forum discussions

Splitting a discussion means that beginning with the post selected and going to the end of that thread, the posts are cut from the current discussion topic and put into a newly created discussion topic. If discussion has strayed away from the original topic, splitting the discussion can provide new attention and space for the tangent discussion while keeping the original discussion on topic.

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