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title: "Choice activity settings"
slug: "choice-activity-settings"
tags: ["Totara Learn", "Content Creator", "Reference"]
updated: 2025-07-22T10:52:18Z
published: 2025-07-22T11:18:31Z
canonical: "totara.help/choice-activity-settings"
---

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# Choice activity settings

When you [add a choice activity to a course](/19/docs/add-a-course-activity-or-resource) you can configure the following settings.

| **Setting** | **Description** | **Notes** |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Name | This will appear on the course page next to the choice icon. | - |
| Description | A description of the choice activity; this might include what learners have to do. | - |
| Display description on course page | Use the text editor to add a description and select whether to display the description on the course page. | - |
| Display mode | Choose whether the responses are displayed horizontally or vertically. | A small number of responses looks better displayed horizontally and a large number of responses and/or long responses look better displayed vertically. |
| Allow choice to be updated | If you want to allow trainees to change their minds after they’ve answered, set this to Yes. Otherwise, trainees will be able to answer the question only once. | - |
| Allow more than one choice to be selected | If this is set to **Yes** then users may select more than one choice. The check boxes display differently according to whether this is set to **Yes** or **No**. | - |
| Limit the number of responses allowed | This option allows you to limit the number of participants that can select each particular option. Each option can set a limit if limits have been enabled. When the limit is met no other users can select that option. A limit of zero (0) means the choice cannot be selected. If there are no limits then any number of participants can choose any options. | - |
| Allow responses from | Set the date and time from which the choice activity will be available, | - |
| Allow responses until | Set the date and time until which the choice activity will be open for responses. | - |
| Show preview | Allow learners to preview the available options before the choice is opened for submission. | - |
| Publish results | You have four options for revealing the results of the choice to trainees: - Do not publish results to learners - Show results to learners immediately after they answer - Show results to learners only after the choice is closed (if you’ve set a closing time above) - Always show results to learners | - |
| Privacy of results | Depending upon your **Publish results** setting, you can choose whether to display trainees names with their response in the results. | - |
| Show column for unanswered | This option determines whether trainees will see the number of people who haven’t answered the question when they see the choice results. | - |
| Include responses from inactive/suspended users | This option determines if responses made by users that have been suspended or unenrolled are shown. | - |
| Common module settings | See [common module settings](/19/docs/common-module-settings) to learn more. | - |
| Restrict access | See [restricting access](/19/docs/restricting-access-to-course-activities) to learn more. | - |
| Activity completion | See [activity completion](/19/docs/activity-completion) to learn more. | - |
| Tags | See [tags](/19/docs/what-are-tags) to learn more. | - |

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