Joseph Rézeau

Hi Tony,

I don't think it is a good idea to encourage respondents into thinking that they can always change their responses once they have submitted a questionnaire. You should really "educate" them and stress that clicking on the Submit button really means "I am sure that these answers are what I want to submit". After all, when they are submitting a quiz or an exam paper, there is no way to go back and make changes. I do agree that a survey-type activity such as the Questionnaire (or the Feedback) module(s) are not the same as an exam or a quiz and can be more flexible.

You can always use the "Respond many" option in Questionnaire. If you use that option and your students complain that they have to re-type all their answers when they just wanted to edit a couple of them, you can always tell them that it's their fault (which it is).

We must also consider how the teacher will use the questionnaire data. If there was an option #3 as mentioned in my answer to the OP in this discussion, and students were able to edit their answers again and again, that would seriously affect the questionnaire's statistics. How would you know which is the student's final version of their responses? Would you want the latest version to replace the earlier ones? Should all earlier versions be (automatically) deleted? Actually even using option #1 (Respond many) poses that problem. I never use that option myself and frankly I do not see much use for it in real life.

Joseph

Hi Loreta. There are two settings that you can use in Questionnaire.

#1 Response options / Type / Respond many

This allows students to respond to the same Questionnaire as many times as they wish. But their previous responses are indeed not displayed when they answer again, they have to start afresh.

#2 Response options / Save/Resume answers / Yes

This allows students to begin answering a questionnaire, then save their answers and leave the questionnaire, to come back to it later, edit or complete their answers and either save again or submit. Please note that, in that option, teachers can not view the student's answers until the questionnaire has been submitted.

What you want would be a 3rd option which could be described as follows:

#3 Response options / Type / "Respond many and review"

This would allow students to respond to the same Questionnaire as many times as they wish. Each time they respond to an already responded to questionnaire, their previous responses would be displayed for them to edit.

Would option #2 be a solution for you? If not, would you like to see option #3 to be implemented? I cannot make any promises, as I have not yet looked into the feasibility nor the amount of development time which might be involved.

ATB

Joseph

Natassja: "... they then respond to the questions and their answers will be broken down by course"
Not sure I understand what you mean by that. Please explain (with examples if possible).

Hi Paul, tanks for the reference to the W3C working draft of HTML 5: A vocabulary and associated APIs for HTML and XHTML. I found it most interesting. However I expect we are still quite a few years away from implementation of HTML 5 in browsers.
Joseph

Hi John,

1. Did you recently upgrade your moodle site from 1.8 or lower to version 1.9?
2. If you are Admin of your moodle site, can you turn on the debug mode (in Admin/server/debugging : select ALL php messages. And see if any error message is displayed on the Questionnaire page and report here.
   

Joseph