What is Group Choice?
Group choice, based on the standard
Choice activity, allows students to enroll
themselves in a group within a Moodle course.
The teacher can choose the groups offered and
the maximum number of students allowed in each
group.
Setting up a Group Choice
activity
Before you can proceed in setting up
your group choice activity you must first
create Groups in Moodle. Please follow steps
on how to do so using guide - How to Create Groups in
Moodle.
Once your groups have been created
return back to your Moodle page to add the
Group Choice Activity.
To add Group
Choice:
- Turn editing on
- Add an activity or resource, and select Group Choice
- Once on the editing page you can set up your settings for the Group Choice Activity.
Group Choice Settings
General
Settings:
- Group Choice name.
- Description - (It is advised to
give a description for this
activity so students will have
instructions for how to complete
the activity).
Miscellaneous settings:
- Allow enrollment to multiple groups.
- Publish results
- Do not publish results to
students
- Show results after students have
answered
- Show results after choice is
closed
- Always show to students
- Privacy of results - Public or
Anonymous.
- Allow choice to be updated/changed.
- Show column for unanswered.
- Limit number of responses allowed -
disabled/enabled.
- If enabled choose limitation for
groups then click apply to all
groups.
Groups Settings
- Select the groups/groupings from Available Groups you wish to
add for this activity, once selected
choose Add.
- Once added groups will appear in Selected Groups.
- Sort groups by
- Group creation date
- Name
Restrict Answering Settings
- Choose to enable time restrictions for
students to answer this
activity.
- Other general Moodle settings apply
to this activity - Common module settings,
Restrict access, Activity Completion and
Competencies. Apply these settings where
necessary.
- Once you are happy with your
activity settings, choose Save and
return to course.