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How to do a Polling in Vista
Introduction
WebCTs Help for: Creating Assessments (Survey), German Version, French Version.
This page provides you with a step by step instruction to the creation of Pollings (a special type of Survey) with the Vista Asssessment Tool. Further information can be found in Part 4, Chapter 7, Sect: "Assessments And Assessments Manager", Sub-Sect: Working with Assessments Designers and Instructors Reference, WebCT Vista 4 (pdf, 2.5 MB) p 71. Get UN & PW at edutech Vista Support.
Click this screen shot and than "Vista Demos - Assessment-Demos" for access to the example.
Usage Comments
Pollings, similar to Surveys are anonymous online tests for which there are no grades assigned since there are no correct or right answers. Pollings dont ask for knowledge but for information or opinions. A column is created in Grade Book. When a student takes the polling. This column is updated to indicate Complete. You can:
- forward the results to an external e-mail address.
- generate statistics from the survey results.
Note: Because the results are anonymous, pollings are ideal for course evaluations or for canvassing students' opinions on an issue discussed in the course.
Polling Examples
- Rapid single question evaluation
How to do it in Vista
It is more or less a three step process.Create Polling Questions
As in a Survey you can use any of the 8 question types that you can create with the tool. For more information select any of the Example Test Pages under Assessment in the Learning Activities HOWTOs such as this Example of a True False test.Create the specific Polling Assessment
- From the Assessments screen, click Create Assessment. The Create Assessment screen appears.
- In the Title text box, enter the assessment title. This title appears in the assessment listing in both the Section Designer and Student views.
- Select 'Survey' from the three assessment types: Quiz, Survey, or Self Test.
- Select whether or not you want to base this assessment on an existing assessment.