Create an Activity
Once you've determined how you would organize your course content, you can create activities (IRATs, TRATs, Application Cases and 360 Degree Evaluation) within each module:
In Summary, here are the steps:
Click on the +New Activity button on the screen.
Select the type of activity that you wish to conduct and fill out the activity details.
Click Go to Questions button (to save basic settiongs), then add questions.
Click Go to Scoring button (to save questions), then set the scores.
Click Go to Optional Settings button (to save points), then select options on how students will answer the activity.
Click Review your Activity button (to save settings) then go over the entire activity once more
Click Publish your Activity button (to save) then select modalities and set time limits.
You'll be taken back to the MODULES & ACTIVITIES page upon publish. Click the Go to Dashboard button of the activity to start running it with students.
Watch a short video below.
Watch how to create your first activity below
Here are the steps (with a few other useful information)
After successfully creating your course and module you will reach the activity setup screen.
Click on the +New Activity button on the screen.
Select the type of activity that you wish to conduct and fill out the activity details. (this cannot be changed after it was saved.)
Prework: This activity type allows you to upload preparatory materials for your students such as readings, presentation slides, audio lectures or video lectures providing the basic theory and content that students should review before class.
IRAT: This is an individual readiness assurance test. It allows you to understand how well your students have understood the prework individually.
TRAT: This is a team readiness assurance test. This allows you to create a set of questions that can be attempted by students in their teams. In such a test, students will get immediate feedback as one team reporter answers questions on behalf of the team.
IRAT & TRAT: This activity type allows you to use the same set of questions to run an IRAT and TRAT.
Application Case: This activity type is generally used by Team-Based Learning educators to add application exercises in the form of multiple choice or free response questions. This activity type has the added functionality of allowing students to select multiple correct answers if you decide you'd like them to be able to do so, as well as upload images or files as their answers.
360 Degree Evaluation: This is an advanced peer evaluation activity which allows students to enter qualitative and quantitative feedback on teammates, as well as feedback about their own performance, the team's overall performance and the instructor's performance.
Click Go to Questions button (to save basic settiongs), then add questions.
From question bank: These are questions that you have already in the past into InteDashboard. More instructions on this method here.
Create new question: This option allows you to add questions along with answer choices one at a time. This option is best if you want to add images, equations or other types of special formatting to your questions. More instructions on this method here.
Copy and paste: This option allows you to submit your information in bulk using Excel. This option is the best and fastest option as long as most of your questions don't have images or equations. More instructions on this method here.
File upload: Similar to the copy and paste option, this allows you to upload your information in bulk using an CSV file. Like the copy and paste option this isn't optimal if your questions carry images and equations, but it's extremely fast and efficient as opposed to manually inputting questions or selecting questions from your question bank. More instructions on this method here.
Click Go to Scoring button (to save questions), then set the scores.
Click Go to Optional Settings button (to save points), then select options on how students will answer the activity.
If you want them to be able to change and re-change their answers throught the entire test, toggle-yes Allow students to change answers before final submission.
If you don't want the students to skip questions,toggle-yes Students must answer questions in sequence.
If you need to ensure that cheating is minimized, you can toggle-yes Randomize answer options order. This means that the answer choices will appear differently between students.
Click Review your Activity button (to save settings) then go over the entire activity once more
Click Publish your Activity button (to save) then select modalities and set time limits.
Note that you can only publish an activity when there are students in the course.
You'll be taken back to the MODULES & ACTIVITIES page upon publish. Click the Go to Dashboard button of the activity to start running it with students.
Further Helpful Information
Please note, each activity within InteDashboard has its specific types of questions.
IRAT: Single correct answer MCQ type questions.
TRAT: Multiple correct answer MCQ type questions.
Application Cases: Both single and multiple MCQ type questions, plus Free Response questions.
360 Degree Evaluation: Rating type questions.
It’s important that you know that once you set a point of value for a question and then you publish the activity. You won’t be able to go back and change the values that you set until you reset the activity or you duplicate the activity and essentially run it towards your students again.
This means that ongoing activities are set and you won’t be able to edit the points, questions, instructions, case-data, and other options. You can however change this data if the activity is in not started, or scheduled status. Though this means that, you will be essentially resetting the activity as discussed above.
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