Whether you are starting from scratch or working with a feedback activity already created, using the feedback activity in a topic ideally consists of 5 stages, in a looped process."]
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A feedback/survey/poll activity is an asynchronous way to measure how students are engaging with your topic materials. It might be useful to do this early on in the topic to check progress and identify any issues, which
may allow you to make changes/adaptations that better meet student needs. A feedback activity mid-topic could help you determine how to scaffold activities that lead to topic completion and achievement of the learning outcomes.
1. Plan
The feedback tool enables a teacher to create a custom survey for collecting feedback from participants using a variety of question types including multiple-choice, yes/no or text input. Feedback responses may be anonymous
if desired, and results may be shown to all participants or restricted to teachers only.
Feedback activities may be used to:
provide formative feedback about student learning (for example the Touchpoint survey)
evaluate a topic, helping improve the content for later participants
enable participants to sign up for events, etc.
Example: Touchpoint survey
This short survey is designed as a ‘snapshot’ to provide formative feedback about student learning. You can use it once or more in your topic to see how students are going with their learning.
You have planned your feedback. Now you are ready to set up your feedback. Below are instructions for creating a feedback activity and adding questions. Alternatively, you could ask your eLearning support team to add the Touchpoint survey to
your topic, and alter the questions if you need to.
Create a feedback activity
Turn editing on using the green button – this button is available top left of screen on the topic homepage
Go to the module where you would like the Feedback activity to appear
Click the Add an activity or resource link at the bottom of the module
Select Feedback from Activities tab
Give the feedback a Name and Description(optional)
Open the Availability section and set an opening and closing date
Timeline block: The 'Allow answers from' date will show to students in the Timeline block.
Under Question and submission settings, set the Record user names option to either Anonymous or User's name will be logged and shown with answers
Under After submission, set the Show analysis page to Yes if you want students to see a summary of responses, otherwise leave as No
Click Save and display
Add questions to a feedback activity
In the feedback activity, click Edit questions
Using the Select menu, choose the type of question to add
The types of questions are as follows:
Longer text answer
Multiple choice
Multiple choice (rated)
Numeric answer
Short text answer
You can also add information and structural elements such as
Page break
Captcha
Label
Information
Complete the required information and click
3. Test
Once you have set up the activity, ask your local eLearning support team to check it for you (especially if this is the first time you have set up this activity).
To view an analysis of submitted responses, select the Analysis tab
By default, the responses from all participants will display in this view.
To view only the results submitted by members of a specific group, select that group from the drop-down menu. The option to view groups is only available if groups have been enabled in the administration settings of the activity (feedback administration>edit
settings>common module settings)
To view responses on the individual level, select the Show responses tab
If the survey is not anonymous, it is possible to view the set of responses submitted by each respondent. Filter by group or by first or last initial, then click on the date beside the respondent's name
Anonymous surveys responses can also be viewed at the individual level. Anonymity is maintained by the removal of the student's name, which is replaced by a response number.
To export responses, select the required format and click Download
5. Review
How did your feedback activity go? Would you set up the activity differently next time around? If you used the Touchpoint survey,
did you make changes to your topic during the teaching/learning process? If yes, were the changes successful? Talk to your colleagues and/or your local eLearning support team to
get ideas for improvement.
A feedback/survey/poll activity is an asynchronous way to measure how students are engaging with your topic materials. It might be useful to do this early on in the topic to check progress and identify any issues, which
may allow you to make changes/adaptations that better meet student needs. A feedback activity mid-topic could help you determine how to scaffold activities that lead to topic completion and achievement of the learning outcomes.
