Activity 5: Using Questionnaire to explore texts
Aim: Get students to think about texts through a questionnaire
Moodle modules: Questionnaire add-on
Extra programs: None
Ease of setup: ***
Why would we want to use questionnaires to explore texts? They help us to get students to think about texts in some detail. Students can benefit from an overview of other students' opinions. Our questions can be as general or detailed as we want them to be. We could also get students to contribute questions beforehand, which may motivate them further. And finally, Moodle will calculate grades for the answers automatically.
Questionnaire is similar to Quiz in those respects with a few crucial differences:
In Questionnaire, students can view their own and each other's responses easily (a bit like an elaborate poll).
It allows students to print out or download the questionnaire easily.
The range of question types is bigger and includes grid questions (also known as Osgood variations), which don't appear in Quiz....
