Choice

A Choice activity allows you to present a single question to students with multiple responses as possible answers. Each student can then pick one of the given choices. Choice activities are intended for gathering information only and are not gradable. For example, Choices can be useful for quick survey of your class

Using Choice

Choice activity can be used in various ways such as:

• Assessing Learner's Understanding: Choices is a useful way to gauge learner's understanding. Students can share their choices securely as questions are not asked in public and only teachers are allowed to see their responses.
• As an Attendance Register or Contract: Choice activity can also be used as an attendance register where students may click 'Present', or a Contract having an option as 'I agree'.
• Selecting Projects: Students may be given different choices to select any Project. Here, Choice activity can be helpful in selection.
• Elections :Another interesting use of Choice activity can be in Elections and voting , for example Students union elections.

Choice Settings

Choice activity can be set as follows:

1. First, with the editing turned on, you need to click "Add an activity" and select Choice.
2. On the Adding a new Choice page, in the Choice name field, enter a name for the activity (required).To see all the settings expanded, click the link "Expand all" top right.

Activity Settings

1. For activity settings, you can can click on Options which relates to the display of the results. You can choose to display results horizontally or vertically depending on the number of choices you have. Type the selections you wish to appear next to the radio buttons in the options fields.
2. Setting 'Allow choice to be updated' will allow students to change their mind after they have voted.
3. If you allow more than one choice to be selected, the checkboxes will display differently to alert students that they can make more than one selection.
4. Also, you can use Limit box to limit and indicate students about the number of options they can choose. If you unintentionally check Limit box but don't add a number then your students won't be able to select any choices and will get confused. For group mode, any limit set is per group. For example , if set to 4, only 4 members of the group can select the option.