UVLe Activities

UVLe Activities

Date: 14 April 2020

1 Activities An activity is a group of features in an UVLe course.

1.1 Common Activities

1. Assignment

• The assignment activity module enables a teacher to communicate tasks, collect work and provide grades and feedback.
• Attendance
• The attendance activity module enables a teacher to take attendance during class and students to view their own attendance record.
• BBB Conference
• BBB Conference lets you create from within UVLe links to real-time on-line classrooms using BBB Conference, an open source web conferencing system for distance education.
• Chat
• The chat activity module enables participants to have text-based, real-time synchronous discussions.
• Checklist
• The checklist module allows a teacher to create a checklist / todo list / task list for their students to work through.
• Choice
• The choice activity module enables a teacher to ask a single question and offer a selection of possible responses.
• Feedback
• The feedback activity module enables a teacher to create a custom survey for collecting feedback from participants using a variety of question types including multiple choice, yes/no or text input.
• Forum
• The forum activity module enables participants to have asynchronous discussions i.e. discussions that take place over an extended period of time.
• Forum (Advanced)
• Forum (Advanced) contains a number of additional features including the ability to see who has engaged in a discussion before you open it, a setting to show recent forum posts on the course page, subscribing to individual threads, private replies and an option to allow anonymous posting, post bookmarking, along with all the features a standard Forum has.
• Quiz
• The quiz activity enables a teacher to create quizzes comprising questions of various types, including multiple choice, matching, short-answer and numerical.

1.2 Other Activities

• Advanced Mindmap
• There is currently no help associated with this resource or activity
• Attendance Register
• Attendance Register calculates time users spend working in online Courses. Optionally allow the User record Offline activities.
• Certificate
• This module allows for the dynamic generation of certificates based on predefined conditions set by the teacher.
• Database
• The database activity module enables participants to create, maintain and search a collection of entries (i.e. records). The structure of the entries is defined by the teacher as a number of fields. Field types include checkbox, radio buttons, dropdown menu, text area, URL, picture and uploaded file.
• External Tool
• The external tool activity module enables students to interact with learning resources and activities on other websites.
• Glossary
• The glossary activity module enables participants to create and maintain a list of definitions, like a dictionary, or to collect and organise resources or information.
• HotPot
• The HotPot module allows teachers to distribute interactive learning materials to their students via UVLe and view reports on the students' responses and results.
• Interactive Content (H5P)
• The H5P activity module enables you to create interactive content such as Interactive Videos, Question Sets, Drag and Drop Questions, Multi-Choice Questions, Presentations and much more.
• Journal
• The journal activity enables teachers to obtain students feedback about a specific topic
• Lesson
• The lesson activity module enables a teacher to deliver content and/or practice activities in interesting and flexible ways.
• Mindmap
• Mindmap module allows you to create and save simple mindmaps from within UVLe.
• Questionnaire
• The questionnaire module allows you to construct surveys using a variety of question types, for the purpose of gathering data from users.
• Reservation
• The main aim of this activity is to schedule laboratory sessions and exams but you can schedule everything you want.
• Scheduler
• The scheduler activity helps you in scheduling appointments with your students.
• Scorm Package
• A SCORM package is a collection of files which are packaged according to an agreed standard for learning objects. The SCORM activity module enables SCORM or AICC packages to be uploaded as a zip file and added to a course.
• Survey
• The survey activity module provides a number of verified survey instruments that have been found useful in assessing and stimulating learning in online environments.
• Wiki
• The wiki activity module enables participants to add and edit a collection of web pages. A wiki can be collaborative, with everyone being able to edit it, or individual, where everyone has their own wiki which only they can edit.
• Workshop
• The workshop activity module enables the collection, review and peer assessment of students' work.