Editing Question

Possible Answers

If you choose a question type that has answer options (choices), you must fill in one answer per line on the bottom half of the Edit Questions window. If you need more lines, click Add another answer line. Question types with answer options are: Radio Buttons, Check Boxes, Dropdown Box, Rate. Examples:

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Ex. 1 Radio Buttons
Enter the possible answers (if applicable).
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What is your favorite color?
Red
Blue
Black
Other:
Ex. 2 Check Boxes
Enter the possible answers (if applicable).
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What are your favorite hobbies?
Watching TV
Dancing
Computing
Another hobby:
Ex. 3 Dropdown list
Enter the possible answers (if applicable).
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2.
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Your favorite color?

Ex. 4 Rate (single line)
Enter the possible answers (if applicable) -> Do not enter anything. If later on you edit this question you'll notice that there one empty "possible answers" line is displayed. Do not enter anything in it.

Settings:
Length = 4 (4 columns numbered 1...4)

Rate Moodle for ease-of-use on a 1 (not user-friendly) to 4 (very user-friendly) scale.
1 2 3 4
Ex. 5 Rate (several lines)
Enter the possible answers (if applicable).
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Settings:
Length = 4 (4 columns numbered 1...4)
Precision = 1 (to obtain an extra N/A column)
Rate these VLEs for ease-of-use on a 1 (not user-friendly) to 4 (very user-friendly) scale. Check N/A for any VLE you have never used.
1 2 3 4 N/A
Moodle 
WebCT 
Blackboard 
Ex. 6 Rate with named degrees
Enter the possible answers (if applicable).
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Settings:
Length = 5 (5 named columns)
Precision = 0 (N/A column not needed here)

In this online unit... I prefer that/I found that...

Almost Never Seldom Sometimes Often Almost Always
my learning focuses on issues that interest me. 
what I learn is important for my professional practice. 
I learn how to improve my professional practice. 

 

Ex. 7 Osgood's Semantic differential
Enter the possible answers (if applicable).
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Settings:
Length = 5 (5 named columns)
Precision = 3 (so that the second half of each pair can be displayed to the right of the radio buttons columns).

Note.- To separate the pairs of words you can use either a slash / or a pipe character |

Describe your personality on a -- to ++ scale.

-- - ± + ++  
weak 
strong
cold
warm
cowardly
brave

Other possible display (Describe your personality on a negative/positive scale)

-3 -2 -1 0 +1 +2 +3  
weak 
strong
cold
warm
cowardly
brave

 

For check boxes and radio buttons, you may enter “!other” on a line to create an optional fill in the blank option. An !other box defaults to using the prompt Other: , (or the equivalent translation for Other in the current language being used). You may change this default prompt by using the format: “!other=prompt text” as shown in Example #2 above.

Notes

  1. At the moment the length of the fill in the blank input text box is set at 25 characters and is not customizable through the online interface.
  2. It does not make sense to provide more than one !other fill in the blank option for a Radio Buttons question.
  3. You might provide more than one !other fill in the blank option for a Check Boxes question, but this might cause problems so it is not recommended.
  4. When a respondent answers a Check Boxes question which has been created as Required, and the Length and Width parameters have been used to require a minimum or a maximum number of boxes to be checked, then a warning message will be displayed if respondent does not check the required number of boxes.
  5. If a respondent checks a fill in the blank option radio button and leaves the text field empty, a warning message will be displayed (upon navigating to the next page or upon submitting the portfolio).
  6. If a respondent has cheked a fill in the blank option radio button and has filled in the text field, and later on changes his mind and clicks a different radio button in the same question, the fill in the blank text field previously entered will be automatically emptied.
  7. If a respondent checks a fill in the blank option check box and leaves the text field empty, that box will be unchecked (upon navigating to the next page or upon submitting the portfolio).
  8. If a respondent has cheked a checked a fill in the blank option check box and has filled in the text field, and later on changes his mind and unckecks that box, the fill in the blank text field will be automatically emptied.
  9. Rate (Likert scale). For this question type you have two display options. The default option displays the Likert scale degrees as numbers (1...5). If you prefer to have named degrees instead of numbers, you'll have to enter those names in the Enter the possible answers (if applicable) list (see Example 5 above). On each line of "possible answers" enter the degree number, immediately followed by the equal sign = immediately followed by the name you want to give to that degree. You should take care that the number of named degrees in the possible answers list is the same as the number determined by the value you entered in the Length field, otherwise the displayed question choices will be incoherent. This coherence is not checked in the questions editing page. If you decide to use named degrees for your Likert scale, it is recommended (but not obligatory) to start your list of possible answers with the named degrees, and then to enter the various items to be scaled (e.g. "my learning focuses...", "what I learn is important", etc. in Ex. 5 above).

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