Features

Quick Start Wizard
Basic version
Advanced
version
Educational
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Activities may include:
Presenting information
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Real-world setting
Authentic context
Controlled complexity
List of observations
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Cognitive load management
Evidence-based assessment
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X
X
Explicit artifact of thinking
Cognitive load management
Efficiency in creating
Efficiency in perceiving
Acknowledgement of author,
contributors, and sponsors
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X
X
Attribution
Collaboration
Funding
Frameworks (guiding and general)
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X
X
Prompting
Scaffolding
Cognitive load management
Table data
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Real-world presentation
Validation of table data interpretations
X
Feedback
Prompting
Author-defined pick list
for selecting valid observations
from the presenting information
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Prompting
Cognitive load management
Supports research
Author-defined pick list
for selecting valid assertions
to use in building an assessment
X
Prompting
Cognitive load management
Supports research
Actions that learners can select
to receive additional data
with the option to track costs
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Judgement
SolutionAssist - Automated feedback
to learners while building or
rearranging a scrambled assessment
X
Feedback
Prompting
Cognitive load management
Reference assessment (solution)
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Feedback
Reflection
Reinforcement
Discussion summary
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Feedback
Reflection
Reinforcement
Multiple choice and short-answer questions to reinforce learning
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Feedback
Reflection
Reinforcement
Learner self-evaluation of assessment using
author-defined topics
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Reflection
Reinforcement
Peer evaluation
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X
Feedback
Reflection
Reinforcement
Peer motivation
Educator evaluation
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Feedback
Reflection
Reinforcement
Motivation
Assessment
Author-defined rubrics for assessment evaluation
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Consistent evaluation
Feedback
Peer evaluation guidance
Author’s notes for personal use, or as background information to other educators
regarding the activity's learning objectives,
expected prior competency of learners, relationship to other activities, required resources, etc.
X
Collaboration
Re-use
Scalability


Authors can:
Import previously authored activities
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X
Collaboration
Re-use
Efficiency
Change terminology for default types of assertions
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X
Academic freedom
Adaptability
Define additional types of assertions
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X
Academic freedom
Adaptability
Define types of relationships among assertions
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X
Academic freedom
Adaptability
Allow learners to import previous work into a new activity
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Scalability
Cognitive load management
Scaffolding
Store and import frameworks, tables, sets of actions, rubrics, and pick lists.
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X
Efficiency
Use the Resource Repository to manage re-usable components, such as frameworks, tables, sets of actions, rubrics, template activities, etc.
X
Efficiency
Educators can:
Model expertise by sequentially revealing previously completed solutions during class discussion using only a mouse click
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Modeling
Use activities for team-based learning
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Team-based learning
Class interactivity
Peer collaboration
Create partial solutions for learners to complete
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Prompting
Scaffolding
Cognitive load management
Change display sizes of text for individual learners or various presentation venues
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X
Accessibility

Learning Activity Authoring Service
We can create Applied Learning Activities such as Case Scenarios for you from your existing course materials.
$295 per activity (5 for $1,295; 10 for $2,250) Each activity includes up to five revisions.