In Performance activities, students respond to a prompt that is accompanied by a picture or a video. These video responses are shared only with the teacher and can be used to track student performance over time. You control the prompt, the amount of time students have to prepare and record their response, as well as how many attempts they get for each. You have the ability to give written and/or video feedback to the students.
Creating a Performance Activity allows it to be saved for future use and tagged to the program, grade, and unit it is associated with. You can also share your activities with other teachers in your school or district to allow more collaboration.
Any media image or video you add to a Performance Activity is saved for future use and tagged as well.
You can create a Performance Activity from the Assignables tab in the Content Library, or from your Assign Cart if you have already started collecting activities to assign to a class.
From the Assignables tab in the Content Library, select Activity from the Create Content filter to begin creating a Performance activity.
You can also create a Performance activity from your Assign Cart by clicking Create.
Both actions bring up the Activity creation window. Click Performance and fill out the form with Title, Instructions in the text box, Unit (if desired), and select a Grade.
Views and Media Time are the number of times and length of time the student gets to look at the prompt and the associated image or video to begin thinking about and preparing their answer. Tries is the number of opportunities a student has to record their response. Record Time is the length of time the student has to record their response. The times are in increments of 30 seconds up to 3 minutes. (The number of attempts comes for the default class setting for Max attempts, but this can be adjusted when assigning the activity.)
Performance activities are associated with Media, either an image or a video. You must select from existing media or Create New Media. See below for additional information. Be sure that the selected media checkbox is checked.
When you create a Performance activity, by default, the media that shows is anything that you have already created and saved to the media library. You can select from that list.
If there are no results, you can either Search the library of program images, or Create New Media.
To Search Media, enter a keyword in the search bar and be sure that there are no filters checked for Share With or Type. This will search everything. Here we searched for “classroom” and available images were returned. To select an image, click the checkbox.
You can also Create New Media and upload an image or video, or record a video of yourself. Recording yourself is a great way to ask students questions or mimic a simulated conversation. A video will play in the background as students are recording their response.
To upload an image or video, enter a Title, Description (if desired), choose a Share With option. Click Select File to locate the file on your device, then click Upload File. A preview will show in the window. Click Add Media, then select that media checkbox.
To record yourself on video asking students questions or mimicking a simulated conversation, click Record. When you are finished, click Stop and then Upload File. Click Add Media, then select that media checkbox.
Note that if you are using a mobile device such as an iPad, you will be asked to Select a file or record a video to your camera roll. You will then attach that file.
Once you have added media and filled in all required fields, you can choose to click Create to simply create and save the Performance Activity to the Assigables tab of the Content Library, or you can click Create & Add+ to add it to your Assign Cart and assign the Performance Activity immediately to your students.
If you wish to assign the Performance Activity, see Related Articles for instructions.
