Section 14.1. Creating Surveys

14.1. Creating Surveys

The limited nature of the surveys tool makes surveys very easy to create. Basically, you select the set of prewritten questions you'd like to give, edit the introductory text, and you're done.

There are three types of surveys you can give:

COLLES (Constructivist On-Line Learning Environment Survey)

This is a set of 24 statements that asks students about the relevance of the course, provides opportunities for reflection and interactivity, provides peer and tutor support, and facilitates interpretation. These factors are based on social constructivist theory, as discussed in Chapter 1. Variations on the survey ask students to discuss their preferred learning environment or the actual learning environment. Moodle offers three types of COLLES surveys: preferred, actual, a combination of the two. The preferred COLLES survey asks students to discuss how they think they want to interact with a course, while the actual COLLES survey asks them how they are interacting currently.

ATTLS (Attitudes to Thinking and Learning Survey)

ATTLS seeks to measure the quality of interaction within a course. It builds on the "separate and connected ways of knowing" scale, which we discussed in Chapter 12.

Critical Incidents

The Critical Incidents survey asks students to consider recent events and answer questions about their relationship to those events. It is similar to the one-minute response paper we discussed in Chapter 8.

Once you've determined the type of survey you'd like to conduct, create the survey to make it available to your students.

To create a survey:

1. Click Turn Editing Mode On.

2. Select Survey from the Activities menu in the appropriate section in your course.

3. From the survey-creation page, shown in Figure 14-1, give the survey a name.

   Figure 14-1. Survey creation page

   
   
   

4. Select the type of survey you want to give from the dropdown list.

5. Click Continue.

6. On the following screen, edit the introductory text if necessary.

7. Click OK.

8. The next screen displays the question set you have chosen. Click Check and Continue at the bottom of the page.