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Moodle 1.9 E-Learning Course Development

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Moodle 1.9 E-Learning Course Development

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Moodle 1.9
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
10
Extending and Administering Moodle
Index

Choices


Moodle's choice is the simplest type of activity. In a choice activity, you create one question, and specify a choice of responses. You can use a choice to:

  • Take a quick poll.

  • Ask students to choose sides in a debate.

  • Confirm the students' understanding of an agreement.

  • Gather consent.

Before we look at how to accomplish this, let's look at the choice activity from the student's point of view, and then explore the settings available to the teacher while creating a choice.

Student's Point of View

From the student's point of view, a choice activity looks like this:

Note that at the bottom of the window, the student can see how many other students have chosen a response. There is also a limit to the number of students who can choose each response.

Teacher's Point of View

Before we discuss some of the uses for a choice activity, let's look at the settings available on the Editing Choice page. Then, we'll see how we can make creative use of these capabilities.

Number of Choices

When you first use...