Group Choice


groupchoice01 If you prefer your students to pick their own groups instead of assigning groups to them, use the Group Choice activity.

Group Choice Options

› General
› Miscellaneous
› Group Choices
› Restrict Answering to This Time Period
› Common Module Settings
› Restrict Access
› Activity Completion

Group Choice Module

› View and Delete Responses
› Download Responses


General

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  1. Type a name for your group choice in the “Group choice name” text box.
  2. Use the “Description” content manager to provide information and instructions to students about the choice they need to make.
  3. If you want to show the group choice instructions on your course site, check the “Display description on course page” box.

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Miscellaneous

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  1. Check the “Allow enrollment to multiple groups” box if you want students to be able to pick more than one group.
  2. Use the “Publish results” drop down to determine when students are allowed to see the results of everyone’s choices.
  3. Use the “Privacy of results” to determine whether or not the results are anonymous. The options are described below:
    Publish full results, showing names and their choices – Allows students to see who is in what group once the results are displayed.
    Publish anonymous results, do not show student names – Allows students to see how many people are in each group once the results are published, but not the names of the people who are in each group.
  4. Use the “Allow choice to be updated” dropdown list to determine whether students can change their choice after making it.
  5. Use the “Show column for unanswered” dropdown to determine whether or not the “View responses” screen shows a column for people who have not made a choice. See “View responses” for more information.
  6. Use the “Limit the number of responses allowed” dropdown list to determine whether you want to set limits on the number of students who can join each group.
  7. If the “Limit the number of responses allowed” option is enabled, type a number in the “General limitation” box and click the “Apply to all groups” button to set the same limit for every group. You can also set separate limits for each group individually.

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Group Choices

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  1. The system will automatically set up group choices based on the groups you’ve already created for your course. You can change these choices using the dropdown lists for “Group 1”, “Group 2”, etc. If you do not see the groups you want to use in the dropdown lists, you will have to create those groups. For instructions on creating groups, see Groups and Groupings.
  2. If the “Limit the number of responses allowed” option is enabled, type a number for each group in the “Limit” text box.

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Restrict Answering to This Time Period

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  1. To prevent students from selecting groups before or after a certain time period, check the “Restrict answering to this time period” box.
  2. Use the “Open” dropdown lists to determine when students can begin answering the question.
  3. Use the “Until” dropdown lists to determine when students can no longer answer the question.

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Common Module Settings

  1. moduleChoose whether or not to hide or show the Assignment module using the “Visible” dropdown box.
  2. If desired, type a number into the “ID number” text box. Setting an ID number provides a way of identifying the activity for grade calculation purposes.
  3. Choose a group mode for the activity. The different group modes are described below:
    No groups – Students will not be separated into groups for the activity. In interactive activities, students will see the contributions of every class member.
    Separate groups – Students will be separated into groups for the activity. In interactive activities, students can only contribute to their group and only view their group’s contributions.
    Visible groups – Students will be separated into groups for the activity. In interactive activities, students will see the contributions of every class member, but they can only contribute to their group.
  4. Use the “Grouping” dropdown list to determine the grouping for the activity. See Groups and Groupings for more information.
  5. To only make the activity available to students assigned to groups within the selected grouping, check the “Available for group members only” box. See Groups and Groupings for more information.

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Restrict Access

Use the restrict Access settings to control when and how students can answer the question. See Restricting Access to Content for more information.

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Activity Completion

Use the Activity Completion settings to track the completion of the activity. For more information, see Activity Completion.

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View and Delete Responses

  1. To see the student responses to the Group Choice activity, click on “View…responses” link in the upper right of the module.
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  2. To remove a response, check the box next to the name of the student(s) whose response(s) you want to remove. Alternatively, you can use the “Select all” and “Deselect all” links at the bottom of the module.
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  3. Click the “With selected” dropdown list and select “Delete”.

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Download Responses

You can download a spreadsheet of your student responses in either ODS (Open Office), Excel or text format. To do so, click the buttons at the bottom left of the module.
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Working with Activities and Resources

› Add an Activity or Resource
› Move or Arrange an Activity or Resource
› Rename an Activity or Resource
› Edit the Settings of an Activity or Resource
› Hide or Show an Activity or Resource
› Copy an Activity or Resource
› Allow a Specific User Certain Permissions When Using an Activity or Resource
› Delete an Activity or Resource
› Change the Group Mode of an Activity or Resource


Add an Activity or Resource

  1. In the upper right, click on the green button that says “Turn editing on”.
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  2. Locate the section where you want to add an activity or resource. At the bottom of the section, click on the button that says “Add an activity or resource”
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  3. A window will pop up with a list of activities and resources. When you click on one of the items in the left column, a description will appear in the right column. Choose the activity or resource you want and click the “Add” button.
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Move or Arrange an Activity or Resource

To rearrange the order of an activity or resource:

  1. Click on the compass arrows icon next to the title of the activity or resource you want to move and hold down the mouse button.
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  2. Drag the section up or down to move it to a new location.
  3. Release the mouse button.

To add or remove an indentation to an activity or resource:

  1. Click on the “Edit” button to the left of the activity or resource.
  2. From the drop-down list, choose “Move right” or “Move left” next to the arrow icons.
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Rename an Activity or Resource

  1. Click on the pen icon to the right of the activity or resource’s name.
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  2. Type in a new name for the activity or resource
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  3. Press enter to save or escape to cancel.

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Edit the Settings of an Activity or Resource

  1. Click on the “Edit” button to the right of the activity or resource.
  2. From the dropdown list, choose “Edit settings” next to the gear icon to hide the activity or resource.
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Hide or Show an Activity or Resource

  1. Click on the “Edit” button to the right of the activity or resource.
  2. From the dropdown list, choose “Hide” next to the eye icon to hide the activity or resource.
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  3. Once the activity or resource has been hidden, return to the “Edit” menu and choose “Show” to show it again.
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Copy an Activity or Resource

  1. Click on the “Edit” button to the right of the activity or resource.
  2. From the dropdown list, choose “Duplicate” next to the pages icon.
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Allow a Specific User Certain Permissions When Using an Activity or Resource

  1. Click on the “Edit” button to the right of the activity or resource.
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  2. From the dropdown list, choose “Assign roles” next to the user icon.
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  3. Choose the type of role you want to assign to a specific user. The details of that role are listed in the “Description” column.
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  4. Choose the specific user from your list of potential users on the right. Click the arrow buttons to add or remove them to the “Existing Users” list on the left. You can also use the search boxes at the bottom to find a specific user.
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  5. The names in the “Existing Users” list will be assigned the role you chose on the previous page. When you’re finished, you can choose another roll to add from the drop-down list at the bottom, or you can return to the previous page by clicking on “Back to the list of all roles”.
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Delete an Activity or Resource

  1. Click on the “Edit” button to the right of the activity or resource.
  2. From the dropdown list, choose “Delete” next to the X icon.
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Change the Group Mode of an Activity or Resource

  1. Click on the user icon next to the “Edit” button of the activity or resource.
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  2. Every time you click, the icon will change. Each icon represents a different group mode. The different group modes are described below:nogroupNo groups – Students will not be separated into groups for the activity. In interactive activities, students will see the contributions of every class member.

    separategroupSeparate groups – Students will be separated into groups for the activity. In interactive activities, students can only contribute to their group and only view their group’s contributions.

    instructor-content-activities-14Visible groups – Students will be separated into groups for the activity. In interactive activities, students will see the contributions of every class member, but they can only contribute to their group.

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