Search icon CANCEL
Arrow left icon
Explore Products
Best Sellers
New Releases
Books
Videos
Audiobooks
Learning Hub
Conferences
Free Learning
Arrow right icon
Arrow up icon
GO TO TOP
Moodle 3.x Teaching Techniques

You're reading from   Moodle 3.x Teaching Techniques Creative ways to build powerful and effective online courses with Moodle 3.0

Arrow left icon
Product type Paperback
Published in May 2016
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781786462299
Length 240 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
Tools
Arrow right icon
Author (1):
Arrow left icon
Susan Smith Nash Susan Smith Nash
Author Profile Icon Susan Smith Nash
Susan Smith Nash
Arrow right icon
View More author details
Toc

Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Developing an Effective Online Course FREE CHAPTER 2. Instructional Material 3. Collaborative Activities 4. Assessment 5. Lesson Solutions 6. Wiki Solutions 7. Glossary Solutions 8. The Choice Activity 9. Course Solutions 10. Workshop Solution 11. Portfolio/Gallery Solution

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...

lock icon The rest of the chapter is locked
Register for a free Packt account to unlock a world of extra content!
A free Packt account unlocks extra newsletters, articles, discounted offers, and much more. Start advancing your knowledge today.
Unlock this book and the full library FREE for 7 days
Get unlimited access to 7000+ expert-authored eBooks and videos courses covering every tech area you can think of
Renews at $19.99/month. Cancel anytime