Learning Activity

Pre-class preparation on a document

Enhance asynchronous engagement with pre-class interactive document discussion

Created by Pedagogy Team at FeedbackFruits

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Pedagogy:

Flipped classroom

Learning outcome:

Collaboration

Prep time:

High (>30 min)

Activity type(s):

Study materials comprehension

Why this learning activity?

Learning activities targeting high-order skills like this one can help you activate students more effectively. This activity will help you with:

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Activity steps

1. Read instructions: Go through the instructions to understand the activity requirements. Note any guidelines or criteria.

2. Read document: Read the provided document. Use features like highlighting, adding notes, and interacting with any embedded questions or prompts.

3. Reflect on the material: Reflect on what you learned from the document. Write about how the material influenced your understanding and any questions or thoughts you have.

Activity setup

FeedbackFruits tool(s) used:

Interactive Document

This activity helps facilitate a flipped classroom approach to your teaching. When student engage with material prior to class there are several benefits:

Prior to class, areas of the topic where students may struggle are outlined allowing in class time to be spent on relevant areas.
Encourage students to learn from each other, ask each other questions and seek help from one another.
In class time can be spent applying material, and exploring its real-world relevance.

In this activity:

You can add a document, where you can thereafter add:
- Inline multiple choice or open answer questions
- Inline discussion prompts
- Opt for students to be able to start discussion threads where they can interact and ask each other questions.
- Opt for students to be able to ask multiple choice or open answer questions.
Anonymity:
- Students won’t see other individual student answers to questions.
- Opt in for anonymity on discussion threads.
Reflection
- Encourage students to reflect on their main take aways.
Grading: This template is currently a formative assessment, you can opt for it to be a graded assignment if you want to encourage participation further.