A really useful third party module that was written for moodle is now part of the core Moodle 2.0 installation.  This activity is a really great way to build and deploy quick surveys for your students.  The activity allows a variety of inputs types like text or numeric fields, multiple choice, radio buttons and the like.  The survey’s are easy to build and you can make the results visible to the students or not.

To add a feedback activity, start editing your course and in the block you want to put the activity, add a new feedback activity.  From the Add question to activity page you can add a variety of questions to pose to your students.  You can set a timeframe for them to take it, make it so their answers are anonymous and also allow for multiple submissions.

Play with it some, I think faculty will find it a very useful addition to Moodle in enabling a quick way to develop a response feedback loop with their students.  Linked below is more information on how to use this activity, and if I get a few minutes I’ll post a quick webcast on how to create a quick feedback activity for your students.

Moodle.org’s current documentation on the Feedback Module