Brickfield Education Labs

Introduction

This involves creating and configuring a referendum activity for an upcoming referendum. This activity provides easy configuration of the proposed issue, start date and end date.

 

Additionally, you can immediately view the results of the voting once the referendum closes.

Creating a Referendum activity

To create a referendum activity:

  1. Go to a course.
  2. Enable Edit mode.
  3. Click Add an activity or resource.
  4. Click the Referendum activity.
  5. Type in the referendum name.
  6. Type in the referendum description.
    1. Please note: this description outlines the proposed question, or statement, that students will vote either Yes or No on, so it is an essential element of the referendum.
  7. Configure the Open date.
  8. Configure the Close date.
  9. Click the Save and return to course button.

 

Viewing Referendum results

To access the “Results report” page:

  1. Go to a course.
  2. Click the referendum activity.
  3. Click the Reports tab.

 

The “Results report” page: Referendum info – The total yes and no votes.

 

The referendum information page displays:

  • Voted YES – The total yes votes.
  • Voted NO – The total no votes.
The Referendum results report with the referendum text and the referendum info. The text is: Should the University Ball be held during Springbreak this year?. The referendum info displays the total number that voted yes and no. 11 voted yes and 5 voted no.