Activities overview
Categorisation
To help you navigate the activities more efficiently, they are grouped into three categories based on their primary pedagogical approach:
Present: Focuses on demonstrating and explaining key concepts, ideas, and arguments.
Practice: Students can apply and test their understanding in a structured and controlled setting.
Produce: Encourages students to engage with concepts and theories in more complex contexts through scaffolded problem-solving in relevant environments.
These categories are not rigid, as many activities may span multiple areas depending on their role within a specific learning sequence.
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Produce | Students select answers from a set of options, which appear as bubbles. More popular responses are larger, visually highlighting group consensus. |
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Practice | It enables students to categorise information by dragging text into a table, helping with structured understanding. |
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Present | It provides exam details (date, time, location), but does not support online exam functionality. |
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Present | The 'Explanatory text' activity provides a simple text box to highlight key information. It helps distinguish faculty-provided explanations from the main narrative text, ensuring clarity in course content. |
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Practice | It helps create sentences with missing words for students to complete using blanks or dropdown menus. Useful for reinforcing keywords and terminology. |
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Practice | It collects location-based responses and displays them on a world map, illustrating global perspectives. |
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Practice | It allows students to label images, reinforcing visual learning. |
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Produce | It can be used by students to upload images with comments, supporting visual learning and creative tasks like modelling data or introducing themselves. |
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Present | Similar to the 'Explanatory text' but with a coloured background to visually highlight key information. Useful for categorising content (e.g., all assessment instructions in yellow). |
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Practice | Students enter responses in a table format, using free text, dropdowns, or checkboxes for organised learning. |
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Present | It enhances videos with bookmarks, questions, and discussion points, pausing playback at key moments for student engagement. |
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Produce | Students can use it as a private space to reflect on topics, visible only to them and their tutor. Tutors can provide feedback on entries, fostering personal and professional growth. |
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Present | It displays intended learning goals at the start and end of a session, allowing students to self-assess their understanding. |
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Practice | As the 'Poll', it also allows students to vote on options and then displays the results in a chart or a table. |
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Practice | Students rearrange a randomised list into the correct sequence, useful for process-based learning. |
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Produce | It is used to assess student engagement in a course with written feedback. |
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Practice | It enables students to vote on options and see results in various chart formats, useful for engagement and opinion-based questions. |
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Practice | It allows structured question sets with rich-text responses, encouraging deeper reflection. |
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Practice | Simple question-response format with immediate feedback, ideal for quick calculations in subjects like math or finance. |
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Present | It allows course readings to be added as links, files, or references, consolidating all required readings in one place. Notes can be added to guide students. |
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Present | It requires students to click a button to reveal additional information, helping with self-testing and sequencing content. |
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Produce | It is virtual board where students post short responses on coloured sticky notes under designated columns. Great for brainstorming and visualising concepts. |
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Present | It shows clickable words within a text display additional explanations when selected. Useful for defining terms without disrupting the reading flow. |
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Present | It embeds Dacast, Youtube, Vimeo, Vimeo showcase, Panopto or Kaltura videos with optional start times or unlock codes for controlled access. Useful for illustrating concepts or case studies. |
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Produce | It allows students to upload videos, useful for introductions or assessment tasks. |
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Produce | Students submit text responses to a vertical board and vote on peers' submissions. Higher-voted responses move to the top, encouraging collaborative idea development. |
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Produce | It can be used by students to submit words in response to a prompt. Frequently chosen words appear larger, offering a visual representation of shared ideas. |
To learn more about how these activities function from a student point of view and what they need to do with each of them, please visit the following article: 'Activity Completion Guide'.