Deploying Questionnaire School-wide

Deploying Questionnaire School-wide

by Ryan Hazen -
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Hi all,

I admin a Moodle for a small college and I would like to deploy a single questionnaire as a course evaluation tool throughout my whole Moodle.

I know I can create a public questionnaire and have teachers deploy it in each individual course, but I am looking for a way that I, as site admin, can make a questionnaire appear in every course, then delete it after a week without asking anything of the teachers.

Is this possible?  If not, I can sure deploy the questionnaire at each individual course but I'm trying to save some work.

Thanks!

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Re: Deploying Questionnaire School-wide

by Joseph Rézeau -
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Hi Ryan,

Unfortunately what you want is not possible. The only way is for you, as admin, to create a public questionnaire in a special course with no teachers and no students, then ask your teachers to "copy" that public questionnaire to a private one in their course (or do it yourself), so the students can answer it in each course and you can view the consolidated results in your "special course".

Joseph

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Re: Deploying Questionnaire School-wide

by Ryan Hazen -

Thanks, Joseph!

That's what I thought, but I wanted to confirm it before I spent the time getting instructors to install it and use it.

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Re: Deploying Questionnaire School-wide

by Bob Puffer -

We do this. Have hacked the questionnaire module to:

  1. add a new type, 'courseevaluation', only the admin can edit a courseevaluation's settings or view the report
  2. allow for a new question field, 'non-editable', only an admin can edit a noneditable question
  3. Provide multiple scripts for:
    1. loading a table with target course and instructor information
    2. deploying the course evaluation instances out to the courses

Reports go to Google Drive  with permissions being automatically set for teacher and department head

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Re: Deploying Questionnaire School-wide

by Ryan Hazen -

Holy Mackerel!  That's exactly what I need.  How can I set this up?

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Re: Deploying Questionnaire School-wide

by Bob Puffer -

the hacks to questionnaire are relatively minor. I maintain our Moodle on git so they're easily applied. If you don't maintain on git you may have issues as questionnaire is very actively maintained and developed against. 

I'm glad to send along the changes but we're integrating to 2.64 right now so exact line numbers are going to vary. I can send a diff when we're done. 

The scripts are PHP code that runs from a new directory called 'ce' (course evaluations).  I can send that along also but it too needs integration first. 

Questionnaire works REALLY WELL for course evaluations. It is the first system our faculty have liked and we've tried a lot of systems.

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Re: Deploying Questionnaire School-wide

by Martin LaGrow -

Once I create a public questionnaire, how do I get it to show in another course? I've gone through the steps, I believe, but I never see an option to use that public questionnaire. Any advice is appreciated!

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Re: Deploying Questionnaire School-wide

by Mary Cooch -
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Create a new questionnaire in a course and then when you scroll down the settings options you should see it in "use public" See http://docs.moodle.org/en/Adding/editing_a_questionnaire

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Re: Deploying Questionnaire School-wide

by Stuart Ward -

Hi guys

I'm also trying to set up a college wide questionnaire for all learners to complete. I'm  on holiday just now and have time to consider how this might be done but don't currently have admin authority. Can you provide me with a update on how you've progressed with this if you've successfully managed to create one.

Bob, excuse my ignorance but how are the scripts entered within Moodle?

Your help would very much be appreciated.


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Re: Deploying Questionnaire School-wide

by Mary Cooch -
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Hello Stuart. If you want a questionnaire to be available for all users in your Moodle you can make it public as in the documentation I referenced earlier http://docs.moodle.org/en/Adding/editing_a_questionnaire but you need permissions to make it public. (I can't help with Bob's tweak ,sorry) Alternatively you can also look at mapping the Feedback module to courses -see the section in http://docs.moodle.org/en/Feedback_settings

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Re: Deploying Questionnaire School-wide

by Stuart Ward -

Hi Mary

Thank you so much for your prompt reply. 

Having read the public section relating to the use of questionnaires I get the impression this will grant availability to other users on the system but tutors still need to copy it in to their own courses. Is that right? However, I'm looking for something  I can control that ensures the question are visible to all users. Mapping via feedback certainly sounds like the better option for my specific needs and I'll certainly be trying this facility.


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