Tridib Chatterji
Faculty of Business
Higher Colleges of Technology
United Arab Emirates
Email: tridib.chatterji@hct.ac.ae
June 2010
Agenda
Feedback Module – what is it?
 Similar modules
 Examples
 Where to get it
 Installation
 Setting up surveys
 Survey types
 Resources
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How many of you…
Use Moodle
 Administrate your own Moodle site
 Use a “survey” type module
 Have heard of the Feedback module
 Do peer assessments in courses
 Have student presentations in your
courses
 Provide verbal or other feedback
immediately after presentations

What is it?
Moodle Add-on (or module)
 Allows users to create surveys:

 Peer feedback
 Staff/staff development
 Opinions
 Knowledge gaps
 Gather general information
Will be added to Moodle 2.0 by default
 Available in English and German

Feedback Module in Action
Featured in…

The 20 Must-Have Moodle Modules
And in…

University of London’s Computer
Centre
Competitors

Survey Module
 Included as part of Moodle
 Includes verified survey instruments

Questionnaire module
 Very comprehensive
 A little difficult to use
 Good for large surveys – 1000+ users
Background
I spend a great deal of time in giving
feedback individually and groups
 I needed a tool that would allow me to
get “voice of the customer” results
quickly

 Student opinions
 Peer assessments
 Attendance

The tool had to be powerful yet simple
Teaching environment
Blended (paper/online)
 Project-based
 Collaborative
 Team and individual components
 Assessments – Presentations, peer
teaching, papers, self-reflection

Examples…
Site registration
Peer assessment
Examples (2)
Presentation
assessment with rated
question
Opinion poll
Where to get it?

Moodle modules and plug-ins:
 http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?id=6009
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Moodle modules (direct link):
 http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?rid=95
 http://download.moodle.org/download.php/packa
ges19/feedback_package.zip
Other locations

Author site
 http://www.grabs-
edv.de/index.php?option=com_docman&task=ca
t_view&gid=10&Itemid=48
Installation…
Copy ZIP to root of Moodle installation
 Uncompress
 Log in as admin to Moodle
 Go to Notifications (Site Admin block)
 Initiate upgrade/install

Installation (2)
Creating surveys…
Log in as course admin
 Turn Editing On
 Add an activity

Creating surveys (2)
Creating surveys (3)
Creating surveys (4)
Creating surveys (5)
Creating surveys (6)
Editing Questions…
Question Type - Captcha

This is to make sure a real person is filling in
the form (anti-spam)
Question Type - Information

This allows you to add informational text,
Course name or section
Question Type - Label

This allows you to add arbitrary text for extra
explanation or to divide the Feedback into
sections
Question Type – Long Text

Text box (you specify how big) for longer
answers
Question Type – Multiple

Multiple choice – single answer, multiple
answers, dropdown list (single answer)
Question Type – Multiple Rated

Allows for averages to be calculated per
question
Question Type – Numeric

Question which must have a number as an
answer (with acceptable range)
Question Type – Short Text

Single line answer with max number of
characters long
Templates

Allows you to save a set of questions
 Public - may be viewed and re-used by users
 Export – as XML
 Import – from XML or another Moodle instance
Analysis

View a list of all responses submitted for
each of the questions within a Feedback
activity
Analysis – Export to Excel…

Provides detailed analysis of responses
Analysis – Export to Excel (2)

Provides detailed analysis of responses
Show responses

View responses submitted by each user
Testing Site
http://nmasse.com/moodle
 Username: testuser1 – testuser9
 Password: acbsp2010
 Will be available until July 1
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Resources

Moodle Docs pages:
 Adding/editing a feedback form
 Adding Feedback questions
 Feedback templates
 Viewing Feedback responses
 Feedback module FAQ
 Feedback module forum
University of Victoria PDF
 University of London
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Tridib Chatterji
Faculty of Business
Higher Colleges of Technology
United Arab Emirates
Email: tridib.chatterji@hct.ac.ae
June 2010