Voting

The Voting Activity allows teachesr to provide learners with a list of options to "Vote" on. It is similar to the Q&A Activity in that Voting shows first one screen with all the available voting options, then a screen showing the individual learner's selection, then a screen showing "progressive" voting results (i.e., a non-editable screen where learners can see results from themselves and other learners over time).
Finally, there is Summary Screen of group results.

Click here to view an animation on using the Voting activity.

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The Basic Tab for the Voting Activity allows you to specify a title for the activity, give learners a set of instructions for completing the activity, and create Voting nominations that Learners can choose from.

• Title: All Activities have a web page title which is presented at the top of the activity page when displayed in the Learning Environment. This is NOT the same title as the Title that can be set using the Properties Inspector.
• *Instructions:*All Activities have a text area that is presented beneath the title. This is where the main activity text to be displayed to learners is entered. The text can be formatted using the Rich-Text Editor. Image, Video, Audio and URL content can also be displayed in the Instructions area.
• Specific Features - Nominations:
  • To Create a new nomination click +Create Nomination.
  • To Edit an existing nomination click the Yellow Pencil.
  • To change the order in which nominations appear, use the Green Up and Down Arroms.
  • To Delete an existing nomination, click the Red Cross.

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• Lock When Finished: This option is available on all Activities.
  • Enabling this option in Votingmeans that once Learners have selected their nominations and Click Finish, their Vote is final. Learners can still view the Voting Activity by using the Progress bar.
  • If this option is disabled, Learners will be able to change their votes by opening the voting activity through the progress bar. The activity will be accessible until the sequence is stopped by a monitor.

• Allow Text Entry:
  • When enabled, this option allows learners to Create and Select their own nomination. Other learners cannot choose this nomination, but can create their own entry to choose.
  • If disabled, Learners may only nominate from the choices specified in the authoring environment.

• Add Notebook... : This option is available on all Activities. Enabling this option creates a Notebook as part of the Activity, which Learner's can use to reflect on the activity just completed. The reflections are personal (ie: not shared with other learners).

Vea la pestaña de instrucciones. Esta pestaña presenta las mismas características para todas las actividades.

La pestaña de Instrucciones tiene las mismas características para todas las actividades LAMS.

Esta pestaña permite al instructor crear instrucciones sobre la actividad así como también subir archivos que puedan ser de utilidad a otros instructores y tutores en el uso de la misma. Por ejemplo, documentos de referencia, planillas de evaluación, etc). Estas instrucciones y archivos pueden ser accedidos desde la interfaz de monitoreo por todos los intructores y tutores.

Hay dos modos de intrucciones posibles: Intrucciones para le modo online o offline. El instructor puede escribir instrucciones para estos dos modos ya que es posible que por alguna razón se decida utilizar esta actividad en modo offline o online.

Estas instrucciones son de importancia si se pretende compartir secuancias de aprendizaje con otros instructores. Estas instrucciones pueden no solo aclarar de la manera que esta actividad debe ser utilizada con estudiantes, sino tambien proveer de información pedagógica sobre la actividad.

Annotated view of the Voting Monitor Summary tab.

The Summary Tab for Voting Activities allows Monitors to view statistics about Learner participation in the activity, and also analyse the responses of Learners to the Voting questions.

At the top of the tab is the Group Selection drop down menu. If the Voting activity is modified by a Grouping Object, this menu allows the monitor to view the different result sets for each group, or the collated results from each group. If the Activity is running in whole class mode, there will only be one option available in this menu.

The Summary screen also shows the total number of Learners who have access to the sequence as well as the number of learners who have completed this particular activity.

The last tab section displays all of the voting questions and the accompanying nominations. For each nomination, LAMS shows a percentage of the total votes. The Monitor can also choose to view the results in Bar or Pie chart form, by clicking "View Bar Chart" and "View Pie Chart" respectively.

Annotated view of the Monitoring Instructions tab.

In the Authoring Environment, Authors can use the Instructions Space to attach support files for a specific activity, or leave comments for othe Monitors about how a given activity should be run.

These comments and files can be viewed from here - the Instructions Tab.