What are Practice Activities? Why are They Important?
Practice activities such as quizzes, projects, and exercises enable students to reinforce the concepts they’ve learned. By incorporating these activities, you encourage students to engage more deeply with your course, helping them to build on the knowledge gained from your video lectures and apply it to real-world situations.
What You Need to Know
- Make sure to include one learning activity such as quiz, exercise, or project in each section of your course in order to help all the students apply what they have learned in that section.
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Provide all needed resources for each activity, such as worksheets, source code, practice files, etc.
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Describe how the activity is relevant to the course.
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Connect the activity to your course goals.
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In this article we will cover:
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Best practices
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How to add practice activities to your Thkee course
Best Practices
Include one practice activity per section. Make sure to include one practice activity such as quiz, exercise, or project in order to help every student apply the knowledge covered in that section. These activities may include:
- Highlight key takeaways at the end of each section with a slide or "cheat sheet.
- Offer practice exercises, such as challenge questions, tasks, or projects, to help students apply what they’ve learned.
- Assess students' progress by challenging them with a quiz.
Provide all needed resources for each practice activity.
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One of the most common student complaints is the lack of necessary resources for completing a project or exercise. To prevent this, ensure that all required resources are readily available so students can easily begin and complete each exercise.
Describe how the practice activity is relevant.
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Every student has the right to know why they should take a quiz or complete an exercise. Describe how each activity is related to the content and what students should learn from completing it.
Connect the practice activity to course goals.
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Of course, students want to know that an activity is going to help them achieve their goals. Therefore, you must describe how each activity they complete will get them closer to their overall course goals.
How to Add Practice Activities to Your Thkee Course
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Click here to learn how to add a quiz to your course.
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Click here to learn how to add assignments to your course.
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Click here to learn how to add resources to your lectures.