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Stephen Marquard and David Horwitz University of Cape Town
Stephen Marquard and David Horwitz
University of Cape Town
Outline
• About Polls
• Origins
• Poll examples
• Current features
• Plans
• How to contribute
About Polls
• Polls is a lightweight, simple tool for anonymous voting to:– gauge opinions, beliefs, attitudes or interests– make a decision– elect people
• Polls is not – an assessment tool (no grading, anonymous)– for related sets of questions
(only one question per poll)
Origins
Polls in UCT’s home-grown legacy online learning environment (connect), with link to associated discussion
The First Sakai Poll
Elections for student governance (Student Representative Council) at the University of Cape Town (2006)
Creating a poll for testing beliefs
Polls for fun
Polls in the Centre for Educational Technology Sociality site(UCT, 2007)
Polls for decision making
Poll in a simulation in an international law course, University of Cape Town (2007)
Polls for gauging interest
Poll for selecting NetG self-study modules available for students
and staff
Polls for gathering information on student behaviour
Poll in a 1st year undergraduate course, University of Cape Town (2007)
Current features
• Polls is available in Sakai 2.4 as a provisional tool– Timed release/retract– Configurable min/max options– Conditional release of results
(always/never/after vote/after close)– Spoiled vote (can allow votes for no options)– Permissions for voting, adding and editing polls
Poll Plans• Richer user interface
– Simpler workflow for creating polls
– More visual display of results (graphs, etc.)
• Complete support for Sakai shared services(search, import/export, archive, notifications)
• Global polls (e.g. in Gateway)
• Integration with Forums (vote, then discuss)
• Embeddable polls as widgets (e.g. in a Wiki page, Announcement, Forum message or Melete module)
• Tool convergence? (Polls, ImageQuiz, Evaluation)
• Add feature requests or bug reports in JIRA (http://issues.sakaiproject.org)
• Ideas, integrating polls with other tools, complex requirements, volunteering design, development or QA effort?
Stephen Marquard, [email protected]
David Horwitz, [email protected]
How to Contribute
