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This refers to Moodle 4.3 .4 from December 2018 onwardfrom August 2024 onwards
How to create a Vote activity
The Vote activity allows you to create a simple selection of options for which students will vote.
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It can be used for student representative elections or for any other voting activity.
To create a Vote activity
- In Login to your module and click on the Turn editing on button the 'Edit mode' toggle switch (top right):
Image Added - At the end of the section in which you would like the Vote to appear, click click on the '+ Add Add an activity or resource hyperlink and select Vote.
' button: 
Image Added - Select the activity by clicking on the word 'Vote' and you will be taken to the 'Adding a new Vote' page
Image Added- In the In the window which comes up, type in the the 'Vote name and ' and 'Description ' (not compulsory)
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- Choose the vote type:
- Poll
- - This is a simple poll: the user chooses a single option to each question and will then be shown the results immediately afterwards.
- Vote
- - This is a simple poll: the user chooses a single option to each question, but the results are not visible until the voting has ended.
- Alternative vote - In this system each user ranks at least one option in each question. If no option has more than 50% of the vote, then the option with the lowest number of votes will be discarded and the next options of the people who voted for it will be used instead. This will continue until one result has over 50% of the votes.
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- Click on the 'Edit mode' toggle switch on the main Moodle page.
- The Vote will be visible in
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- the module. Now you set up the different choices.
To set up the options
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- Enter the vote by clicking on the title of the Vote.
- On the next screen,
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- choose Add a new question.
Image Added- Add the main question. You can add a weighting to control the order of the questions if your Vote activity contains more than 1 question. The lowest number appears at the top of the list if you are using weighting.
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- If you do not want to control
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- the order leave
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- it at 1 for all questions). Click on the 'Save changes' button.
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- choose 'Add a new option
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Image Added- Type in your first Option (Use Weighting for each option if you want to control the order. The option with the lowest number appears at the top of the list if you are using weighting.
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- If you do not want to control
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- the order leave
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- it at 1 for all options.)
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- Click on the 'Save changes' button. Do the same for the next Options until you have entered them all.
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- has access to the module can vote, typically
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- choosing one option (see above for explanation of Alternative vote).
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