Overview
This article provides an overview of the built in activities available in Learning Space and touches on the benefits of integrating them within your Learning Space modules to help provide students with a rich, interactive experience.
Contents
What are activities?
Activities are interactive tools built into Learning Space that can be used to help improve student engagement. Whilst your Learning Space modules are used to share module related resources such as lecture notes and PowerPoints, activities can be used to make your modules more interesting and interactive e.g. by handling electronic submissions, facilitating discussions and collaborative work and allowing you to set up self marking quizzes for formative assessment.
The full list of activities
Learning Space activities are listed below along with links to support guides. Each guide contains more information about the activity and shows you how to set up and use the activity.
 | The Assignment activity is used for electronic submission of work through Learning Space. |
 | The Choice activity is used within Learning Space to display a variety of suggestions which users are then able to select from. It could be used to run polls or you could use it to ask a question at the beginning of a lecture. |
 | The Database activity allows the teacher and/or students to build, display and search a bank of record entries about any conceivable topic. Database entries can be set up to include images, files, URLs, numbers and text etc. |
 | Forums can be used by students to exchange ideas by posting comments as part of a thread. Images, files and media can be included in posts and the teacher can choose to grade or rate posts. it is also possible to give students permission to rate each others posts. |
 | The Glossary is a collaborative activity that allows participants to create, maintain and view a list of definitions like a dictionary. |
 | The Questionnaire activity allows teachers to add a range of questions to get student feedback e.g. on a course or activities. |
 | The Quiz activity can be used for formative assessment to check student understanding of a topic or subject area. It offers a range of question types, some of which are self marking (e.g. multiple choice). |
 | The Scheduler booking activity allows users to select time slots presented to them. This activity is most commonly used on Learning Space to assist with one-to-one tutorial discussions. |
 | Turnitin can be used to provide a submission point for student work in Learning Space. |
 | Wikis are predominantly used for collaborative work. Users can collectively create and modify an online web document together from inside Learning Space. |
 | A Workshop is a powerful peer assessment activity. |
Further Support
For further support on Learning Space, or to report any issues with this guide, please get in touch with the Digital Learning Team via dlsupport@falmouth.ac.uk. Alternatively, please refer to the numerous help guides found on our Knowledge Base.
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