Activity Types
Activities are things that you want the students to do in your online classroom. Unlike Resources, which are how instructors giving information to students, Activities are typically students giving information/feedback/etc. to the instructor.
The activities below are available to all instructors. Some activity blocks, like EdPuzzle or Perusall, are dependent on the resources used in your course.
Assignment
Allows students to turn in digital assignments, like documents, images, or media.
Big Blue Button
An online video conferencing option to support synchronous classroom activities.
- Assignment: allows students to turn in digital assignments, like documents, images, or media.
- Big Blue Button: an online video conferencing option to support synchronous classroom activities.
- Chat: supports synchronous text-based chatting within the online classroom.
- Choice: posts a single multiple-choice question for students to answer.
- Database: the instructor creates a database that students can add entries to.
- EdPuzzle
- Eternal tool: used with some external websites and curricular tools.
- Feedback: a way to collect student feedback on a lesson or other learning experience.
- Forum: supports asynchronous text-based discussions.
- Glossary: students collaborate on a list of definitions or other resources.
- H5P:
- Lesson: a combination of content and assessments that can be differentiated and graded.
- Pearson MyLab & Mastering Link: used with some Pearson textbooks
- Perusall
- Quiz:
- SCORM package
- Survey
- Wiki
- Workshop