{"id":397,"date":"2017-07-17T15:55:08","date_gmt":"2017-07-17T03:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/help.otago.ac.nz\/moodle\/?page_id=397"},"modified":"2023-01-16T13:48:04","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T00:48:04","slug":"choice","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/help.otago.ac.nz\/moodle\/communicating-with-students\/choice\/","title":{"rendered":"Choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Summary<\/h2>\n<p>The Choice activity lets you ask your students a single question &#8211; they can be useful as quick polls or to gauge progress.<\/p>\n<h3>Resources<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.moodle.org\/401\/en\/Choice_activity\">Choice activity<\/a> (Moodle.org)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Creating a Choice<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Log in to Moodle and navigate to the course when you want to create the activity.<\/li>\n<li>Make sure editing is turned on\u00a0<em>(<\/em><em>Turn editing<\/em>\u00a0<em>on<\/em> &#8211; toggle icon in the top right hand corner): <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1063\" src=\"https:\/\/help.otago.ac.nz\/moodle\/files\/2023\/01\/Screen-Shot-2023-01-16-at-12.14.32-PM-300x111.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"87\" height=\"38\" \/><\/li>\n<li>Click\u00a0<em>Add an activity or resource<\/em> in the section where you want the Choice activity to appear.<\/li>\n<li>Select\u00a0<em>Choice\u00a0<\/em>from the menu and click\u00a0<em>Add.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Give your activity a name and decide if the options display vertically or horizontally (if you have a lot of options select vertically).\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Options<\/strong> &#8211; here you decide if a student can change their mind and update their answer, select more than one answer or limit the number of responses per option (this is useful if you&#8217;re using the options to pick groups). This is also where you add each option for students to pick in the activity.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Results<\/strong> &#8211; decide if students should see the results or not.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Restrict access<\/strong> &#8211; use this if you want only a certain set of students to take part in the Choice activity.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Click\u00a0<em>Save and display<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>to view your activity once you&#8217;re finished.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2>Viewing Choice Responses<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Log in to Moodle and navigate to the course when you want to create the activity.<\/li>\n<li>Make sure editing is turned on\u00a0<em>(<\/em><em>Turn editing<\/em>\u00a0<em>on<\/em> &#8211; toggle icon in the top right hand corner).<\/li>\n<li>Click the name of your\u00a0<em>Choice<\/em> activity to open it.<\/li>\n<li>Click the\u00a0<em>View x responses<\/em> link to the right hand side of the page.<\/li>\n<li>Here you&#8217;ll see all the responses and be able to download the data for use in Excel (or similar programs).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2>Related Pages<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/help.otago.ac.nz\/moodle\/assessing-students\/feedback-options\/\">Feedback Options<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/help.otago.ac.nz\/moodle\/communicating-with-students\/feedback\/\">Feedback<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/help.otago.ac.nz\/moodle\/communicating-with-students\/questionnaires\/\">Questionnaires<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary The Choice activity lets you ask your students a single question &#8211; they can be useful as quick polls or to gauge progress. Resources Choice activity (Moodle.org) Creating a Choice Log in to Moodle and navigate to the course [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":24,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-397","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.otago.ac.nz\/moodle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.otago.ac.nz\/moodle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.otago.ac.nz\/moodle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.otago.ac.nz\/moodle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.otago.ac.nz\/moodle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/help.otago.ac.nz\/moodle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/397\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.otago.ac.nz\/moodle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.otago.ac.nz\/moodle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}