Set Activities/Activity Preferences

1. Click Today's View or Course Materials > Add From Library or Course Materials > Manage Course Materials.
2. Click the preferences icon .
3. Close the Basic Preferences dialog box that appears.
4. Click Activities in the Instructor column.

If you go to another page before you save your changes, your changes are discarded and the previous settings are maintained.

1. Click Add Activity Name. A new row appears at the bottom of the Activity list.
2. Scroll to the new activity type and click to select it.
3. Customize the new activity by assigning choices for the following options:
   • Icon: Displays the icon associated with the activity type. To change a default icon, click the down arrow for the corresponding activity type and choose an icon from the list. The icon you select appears for all instances of the activity type. If you do not select an icon, the default activity icon is used for the activity type.
   • Large Icon: Displays the large icons associated with the activity type. To change a default icon, click the down arrow for the corresponding activity type and choose an icon from the list. The icon you select appears for all instances of that activity type. If you do not select an icon, the default activity icon is used for the activity type.
   • Activity Type Name: Displays the activity type name. Enter new test to rename an activity. The name you specify appears in the Add Course Materials menu in the course.
   • Activity Type Description: Displays the current description for each activity type. Use this field to enter a description for each activity. Instructors can view the description on this page to help them differentiate the different activity types.
   • Type: Select from the available options:
     • General (default): Select to use the standard activity options. Select this option for Higher Education courses.
     • BASI: Do not select this option for Higher Education courses.
       Select to designate the activity as a BASI (Basic Achievement Skills Inventory) activity/sub-test. If you are not creating a BASI test activity or if you are unsure which type to use, select General. BASI tests are nationally scored achievement tests that help measure math, reading, and language skills. Selecting BASI sets the activity's behavioral mode to basic/random; all other behavioral modes are unavailable. When you select BASI, the following option becomes available:
       • The Subtype field appears on the Activity Details page when you create this activity type.
   • Preferences: Click Edit to set default preferences for the activity. \After you make changes click Save to apply the changes. If you click Apply to all, the changes you make are applied to all existing and new activities. For details on available options, see Set preferences for an activity.
   • Behavioral Mode: Click Edit to set the behavioral modes that are available when you create a new activity. You can clear any behavioral modes you want to exclude from the activity type. (MyLab Languages only)
     • Basic/Random: Presents students with a series of questions that you can either specify or have the application randomly select for you.
     • Difficulty-based: Displays questions based on their assigned level of difficulty (easy, moderate, or difficult). You can either specify the questions or have the application randomly select questions based on a system analysis of student records and needs.
     • Adaptive: Presents questions based on student progress through multiple levels of questions. Students progress through the activity and receive feedback based on their progress.
     • Bloom's Taxonomy-based: Displays questions based on their assigned level in Bloom’s Taxonomy (Knowledge, Comprehension, Application, Analysis, Synthesis, and Evaluation). You can either specify the questions or have the application randomly select questions based on a system analysis of student records and needs.
     • Assignments: Requires students to upload their assignment for manual instructor evaluation and grading. This mode is used for dropbox and Grader project activities.
     • Skill-based: Lets students complete questions in any order. If there are question attempts remaining, students can move from one question to another and back again.
     • Document-based: Requires students to complete questions in a specific order that simulates the steps required to create a document or project. The outcome of one question is used as the starting point for the next.
   • Display in Add Course Materials: If Yes appears, the activity type name is available from the Add Course Materials menu on the Course Materials pages, which allows you to create new activities of this type. If No appears, the activity type name is not available from the Add Course Materials menu on the Course Materials pages and you cannot create new activities of this type. Click Yes or No to toggle between the options. (MyLab IT only)

After you create an activity of a specific type in the course, you cannot change the Type column selection for that activity type. To reset the Type column for an activity type, you must first delete all activities of that type from the course.

1. Click Add New Feedback Schema.
2. Select the Schema Type. Options are Benchmark (percentage) or Raw Score (total points scored in activity).
3. Enter a Feedback Schema Name and Description.
4. To create score ranges for feedback:
   • For benchmark schemas, enter the lower limit in (%) Score from, and the upper limit in (%) Score to.

     The score range must be from 0 to 100 and the scores cannot overlap. For example, if you enter 0-79 as the first range, the next range must start at 80, not 79.

   • For raw score schemas, enter the lower limit in Score from, and enter the upper limit in Score to.

     The scoring ranges must be consecutive to the next highest whole number; there cannot be gaps between the ranges. For example, if the first range is 0 to 5 the next range must start at 6. Similarly, if the first range is 0 to 2.5, the next range must start at 3.

5. Enter the Feedback for each range.
6. Click Save and Close.

To add more grade ranges, click Add Schema. To delete ranges, select the boxes and click Delete Schema.

1. Click the down arrow to the right of the schema’s name to display the options menu.
2. From the options menu, click Edit.
3. Make the appropriate edits and click Save and Close.

To create a duplicate copy of an existing schema, display the options menu and then click Copy.

After you delete a grade schema, it cannot be retrieved.

1. To delete multiple schemas, click the box of each schema you want to delete and then click Delete Selected Grade or Rubric Schemas. Check the Select all box below the list of schemas to select all schemas.

   - or -

   To delete a single schema, display its options menu and then click Delete.

2. Click OK to confirm the deletion.

Options are:

• Enable To Do and Completed views on Manage Course Materials page: Select to enable you to view the student To Do page and Completed page on your Course Materials > Manage Course Materials page. When this option is selected, the Manage Course Materials page displays links to the View All Course Materials, View To Do, and View Completed pages when you select a particular student from the Display contents for list on that page.
• Display status column: Select to display the status column on the student To Do and Completed pages.
• Remove multiple attempt activities from a student's To Do list when a student scores at or above the proficiency threshold: Select to move activities from the To Do list to the Completed list as soon as the student receives a score that meets or exceeds the passing threshold. Activities move to Completed even when the student has more attempts for the activity.
• Move items past their due date to the student's Completed list regardless of status: Select to move all past due activities to the Completed list regardless of the activity's current status.
• Display I'm Done button before first attempt: Select to allow students to click I’m Done for an assignment on their To Do list before they open the assignment for the first time. This option only applies to assignments that have no due date and/or unlimited attempts.