Activities

Tasks will be replacing activities for new courses starting T1 2020. Tasks provide a far greater range of both formative and assessed student activity types.

Activities are not available when Tasks have been enabled.

iQualify has a number of activity types. These are all formative, unassessed activities that can be used to help students self-assess their understanding or as a call to action.

Activity types

Submit task: Activity and interaction are external to platform. The student signifies completion using a simple I have completed this activity button.
Open response: Free text field and image or video upload submission. Question posed, text answer and/or image/video required.
Multiple-choice question: Multiple-choice questions can be configured to have one or correct answers from a list of options.
Fill in the blanks: Classic cloze-type activitiy where students fill in the blank words from a sentence or paragraph of text.

Common elements

All activities have:

title
question
student response
automatic feedback
hint (optional)
time (in minutes) – see below.

The details of these will depend on the type of activity chosen.

Time

Each activity has an option to add the estimated time (in minutes) the activity should take. The activity time is used in the overall unit time and ensures that the overall unit time isn’t lower than the combined activity times.

The combined activity time will overwrite the unit time if the unit time is lower.

See Unit timings for more information.

Adding an activity

All of the activity types above are added using the same Activity element from the + menu.

The type of activity can then be chosen from the drop-down Type menu.

Note: The type of activity can’t be changed after it has been saved

Editing activity text, images, and so on

The text editing menu for activities is slightly different to that of the unit text editor, in order to allow the addition of video, images and code blocks within the activity text.

Heading level 4, strike-through text and quote formatting is also available from the format menu ¶.

The activities text editor with additional items highlighted.

Visit the specific pages for information:

Go beyond iQualify activities

Activities beyond what iQualify offer can be developed by our talented UX team, sourced over the internet, and even developed yourself and incorporated into your course using the Embed web page element.

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