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1612Activities: What interactive activities can I add to my site?
In Study Direct you can add activities for Students to engage in to any section of your site.
You can see all the available activities by clicking on the Green 'Add activity' button, but here is an overview.
Discussion
Forum
Discussion board
Chat
Live chatroom for site members
Assessment tools
Quiz
Flexible quiz for online tests - multiple choice, true-false, or short answer questions
Hot Potatoes Quiz
For you and your students to get quick feedback on progress
Collaboration
Wiki
A space for students to work collaboratively on documents
Glossary
Dictionary of terms - maintained by tutors and/or students
Workshop
Tool for peer assessment, where students can upload work and review peers' work based on a guide you provide
Database
Allows students to build and display information, text, images and other files that can be searched by other students
Student responses
Choice
A simple way to ask students to vote on a question or statement
Feedback
A survey that can gather responses, written or numeric, from students
Guided learning
Lesson
Guide a student's path through materials based on their responses
Reflection
Journal
Personal student journals, shared only with tutors
Assignment
Upload a single file
Students can upload a single file for you to mark
Advanced uploading of files
Students can upload up to 5 files and receive files back from you
Offline activity
Enter marks for an offline activity
Online text
Students create a document online for you to mark
Please note: A few of these activities, while available for you to use, are not supported by the Study Direct team.
N.B. Marks for Assignments in Study Direct are not currently synchronised with Sussex Direct.
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