author: 
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Berit De Meester <Berit.DeMeester@UGent.be>, Ghent University

Introduction: 
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With this poll tool you can quickly ask for the students opinion. This tool is not intended 
to be a complete poll tool but it does the basic things a poll tool should do.
This tool was originally written for Dokeos 1.5.4 but we quickly made the necessary 
changes so that it would work in Dokeos 1.6. The code should be refactured but 
unfornately we do not have the time for it. If you feel like modifying, please do
and give the results back to us. 

Features:
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* You can have several polls at the same time.
* A poll can have 2 or more answer options.
* Each poll has a timewindow during which the students can cast their vote
* A poll can be anonymous or not
* A poll can be edited untill the first student cast his vote otherwise the results could have errors

drawbacks:
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* a poll with multiple possibilities is not possible
* the date selector is not the one of the agenda
* api functions are not well used (this was before the sortable table api was introduced)
* ...


Installation:
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Installation is pretty easy.
1. unpack the files in a folder next to documents, calendar, ... inside the claroline folder
2. move the files in poll/lang/ to their respective language folder
3. add the tool to the tool table of the course so that it appears in the course homepage
4. use it. (the poll tool itself creates the necessary tables if needed) 
   (there is an sql scheme in the zip also but normally you do not need it)

comments:
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post them on the dokeos forum: http://www.dokeos.com/forum



