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, and grade on a proficiency scale using our proficiency-based rubric (for WL).
Creating a Performance Activity allows it to be saved for future use and tagged to the program, level, 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 Assignables or from your Assign Cart if you have already started collecting activities to assign to a class. Some programs have pre-created Performance activities.
From Assignables, click on Create Content, then choose Activity from the dropdown.
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 enter a Title and enter your Instructions in the text box.
Select a Unit (if desired) and select a Level.
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 and Record Time are the number of times and length of time the student has to record their response. The times are in increments of 30 seconds up to 3 minutes.
If you wish to allow students to pause while they record, check the Allow student to pause recording box.
If you wish to allow students to view the image or video while they record (recommended), check the Show media while student records box.
Click Share With to change the setting and share with others.
Performance activities are associated with Media, either an image or a video. Available Media will default to showing any media files you have previously uploaded. If you see the media you want, select the radio button.
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 to clear any 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, select the radio button.
You can 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 file or record a video. Select a file from your Photo Library or Browse your device for other files. Click Take Photo or Video to open your camera and create a new file. 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 Assignment 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.
