Moodle plugins directory: Wooclap | Moodle.org
Wooclap
Activities ::: mod_wooclap
Maintained by 
Jonathan Alzetta, 
Morgan Fauvet, 
Thibaut Roskam, 
Marco Verbeek
Jonathan Alzetta, Morgan Fauvet, Thibaut Roskam, Marco VerbeekWooclap activity plugin for Moodle
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Wooclap (www.wooclap.com) is a classroom response system with which teachers can transform smartphones from a nuisance into a learning tool, give every student a voice, and gauge their understanding of material in real-time.Usage
Description
Wooclap’s Moodle plugin allows teachers to access its many interactive features from within a Moodle course. It enables users to:
- create a Wooclap activity;
- base a Wooclap activity on an existing quiz from a Moodle course;
- easily access and edit a Wooclap quiz through Moodle;
- authenticate students through Moodle without providing their password to Wooclap;
- track reports from Wooclap to Moodle.
When a teacher wants to create a Wooclap activity in a course, they must fill in a name and a description. They can also select an existing Wooclap quiz (optional).
Installing the plugin
This plugin requires an authentication key provided by Wooclap.
Usage
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Contributors
Jonathan Alzetta (Lead maintainer): Maintainer
Morgan Fauvet: Developer
Thibaut Roskam: Developer
Marco Verbeek: Developer
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I noticed the Wooclap moodle integration plugin disables the possibility to make vote anonymous. It seems to be an important pedagogical restriction because anonymity has been proven to be important for student engagement has it can be read in this interesting meta-analysis :
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360131520300956
Wooclap Moodle integration seems much more interresting if anonymous vote is enabled, because Moodle does not allow teachers to make quiz answer anonymous.
With great thanks for designing this very simple voting solution.
Kisses
Zabelle
See page 101 to see an summary table of the experimentation results :
https://theses.hal.science/tel-01344635
I perfectly agree with you that anonymous voting is important, and this is actually possible with the Moodle plugin as well. I'll add some explanations below.
When you create the Wooclap activity in Moodle, by default Moodle authentication will be required for the Wooclap activity. In this case, the students will need to be authenticated.
However, if you click on the settings (gear icon top right), you can turn off authentication. In that case, the students can participate anonymously.
If for some reason, a student is already authenticated when they join the event (due to participation to a past Wooclap event) and authentication is not required, we display a screen to the student saying "This event does not require authentication", and they can choose between "Stay logged in" or "Continue anonymously".
So I believe this should allow the behavior you were looking for. Let me know if I missed a scenario where anonymous voting is not possible.
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The reason why we turn on Moodle authentication by default is that this is required if you want to synchronise the grades from Wooclap to Moodle. If the student is not authenticated, it will not be possible to synchronise the grades. In the past, some teachers would forget to turn on Moodle authentication, so they were not able to synchronise the grades, and this why we chose to turn it on by default.