Guidelines for Using Interactives
How should you use this guide?
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Introduction
The guidelines in this LO are intended to help you do three things: choose the most appropriate interactive for an instructional goal, use a large variety of interactive tools in each lesson you write, and correctly format the content for type of interactivity.
Each page in this guide demonstrates a different type of interactivity available for use in our courses. Look for these features on each page:
- suggestions about when to use the interactive
- a working example of the interactive
- "boilerplate" text for writing/formatting the content for the interactive
- links to additional examples of the interactive
Selecting an Interactive
Our courses come equipped with lots of fun and useful interactives to help present information, assess student understanding, and increase engagement. But which should you use?
First, decide if the content you need to present is instructional or an assessment/self-check.
Instructional interactives help present information in a clear and organized way. They reduce scrolling, show relationships between ideas, and keep students from being overwhelmed by too much content on the screen at once. Assets like tabsets, lightboxes, and interactive tables are instructional interactives.
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| Depth of Knowledge Level: 1-2 | |
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| Depth of Knowledge Level: 1-2 | |
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| Depth of Knowledge Level: 1-4 | |
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| Depth of Knowledge Level: 2-3 | |
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| Depth of Knowledge Level: 2-3 | |
Assessment interactives are short, ungraded activities that help students test their own understanding, make connections between concepts, and deepen their critical thinking about a learning objective. Activities like multiple choice, open ended questions, and matching are all assessment interactives.
| Assessment Category | Interactive Choice(s) |
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| Depth of Knowledge Level: 1-2 | |
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| Depth of Knowledge Level: 1-4 | |
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| Depth of Knowledge Level: 2-3 | |
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| Depth of Knowledge Level: 2-3 | |
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| Depth of Knowledge Level: 3-4 | |
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| Depth of Knowledge Level: 3-4 | |