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Learning Activities

Learning Activities is a category of interactive course content that students work through at their own pace. It gives students a low-stakes way to check their understanding before a graded assessment, and gives instructors a view of which concepts a class finds difficult. Learning Activities groups interactive activity types together so instructors find and create all of them the same way. Flashcards is the first activity type available.

About flashcards

A flashcard shows a question on the front and the answer on the back. Students mark whether they feel confident before flipping each card, then work through the deck at their own pace. Flashcards aren’t graded and students can repeat a deck as many times as they want.

Instructors build a deck in one of two ways. They can create each card by hand, or generate a set of cards from course content with AI and edit the results before students see them. Generated cards are based on the course name unless the instructor selects specific course items to ground them.

Instructors can see how a class is using a deck: who started and completed the activity, how many times students repeated it, and how often each card was marked as needing practice. Students can’t create their own flashcards.

Activating Learning Activities

Learning Activities is turned off by default. If your institution wants to use it:

  1. Go to Tools.

  2. Find the Learning Activities section.

  3. Turn the setting on and save.

With Learning Activities turned off, Learning activity doesn’t appear in the instructor’s Create menu.

Allow instructors to generate flashcards with AI

AI generation is turned on separately from Learning Activities itself:

  1. Go to the Administrator Panel.

  2. Select Building Blocks, then Installed Tools.

  3. Select AI Design Assistant and Unsplash.

  4. Turn on Generate learning activities.

How the settings work together

Tools is the master switch. It controls whether Learning Activities is available in courses at all.

Generate learning activities controls only whether instructors can generate flashcards with AI. It has no effect while Learning Activities is turned off under Tools.

To give instructors AI-generated flashcards, turn on both. To give them manual flashcards only, turn on Learning Activities under Tools and leave Generate learning activities off.