Moodle's choice activity
Moodle's choice is the simplest type of activity. In this activity, you create one question and specify a choice of responses:
You can use a choice to:
Take a quick poll
Check their understanding of a topic or theme
Pique their curiosity about a topic or skill covered in the course
Ask students to choose sides in a debate
Confirm the students' understanding of an agreement
The choice activity is also good for choosing meeting or appointment times between students and the professor or mentor. To do this, it is effective to limit the number of responses and then set the limit on each choice to 1. Each choice is a date and time of an available appointment. Each person can then choose an appointment time. It can be an effective way for staff who usually have to organize signup sheets to schedule appointments with their students:
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...
