Activity slides can be used to ask students questions, assess overall understanding of the material, or to pose certain questions for discussion. In most cases, there are a range of tools on an activity slide that you can use in your Class.

In this example, when they have the Presentation open, students can make a choice of one of the four options:

As an instructor you will see a tool bar at the bottom of the screen:

• Submissions: shows how many of your current student users have answered the activity question.
• Close: toggle the 'Hand' button on to Close the activity to any new answers.
• Results: click this 'Graph' button to display the overall results of answers submitted.
• Reveal: if your question has a specific answer attached, click the 'Arrow' button to reveal the correct answer.
• Reset: remove all answers and reset the activity.

Note: the options available in this toolbar may change depending on the activity used.

Interacting via SMS

Users can submit answers to certain quiz questions using their mobile phone by sending an SMS. At the bottom of each quiz activity page there may be an instruction such as:

Students may text an answer to the number shown here, which may be useful if your participants are in a lecture theatre without computer access.

Students must have their phone number listed in their personal ALP settings before being able to SMS. You may have to instruct students to do this beforehand. To register a phone number with ALP:

1. Open ALP using the link in your LEO unit.
2. In ALP, click the 'cog' icon in the top right corner of the screen and choose 'Account Settings':
   
3. In the phone number section of the settings, choose "Australia (+61)" and enter your phone number:
   
4. Click 'Save' to save your settings.

Discussions allows students and the instructor to ask questions during the class, which can be answered by all participants. This can be used by the instructor to ask questions of the students as the class is running, or to answer questions students may have in general or about a specific slide.

Questions and answers are also saved as part of the Presentation, so you can review these discussions later, if you wish.

To open the Discussions panel, students and instructors can click the Discussions button in the toolbar:

This panel will show a list of all current questions, allowing you and your students to click on the question and provide a response, or ask a new question.

How to add a new question

1. Click the 'New Question' button.
2. Type your question into the text box.
3. Click the 'Post Question' button.

Additional question options:

• You may also click the 'paperclip' icon to attach a file to the question.
• Enable the "Reference class content" option to indicate which slide your question is specifically about.
• Enable the "Post anonymously" option if you don't want your name to appear with the question.

How to edit and delete questions

1. Go to the list of questions.
2. Hover over the question you wish to edit and click the 'Arrow' icon:
   
3. Choose either the 'Edit' or 'Delete' options from the list:
   • The 'Edit' option will allow you change all text and options you set previously. Remember to click the 'Save' button when you are finished editing.
   • The 'Delete' option will ask you to confirm deletion. Click the 'OK' button to confirm.

The Confusion Flag enables students to indicate when the find Presentation content confusing. Knowing in real-time whether something you are presenting requires further exploration or discussion is a good way to aid your teaching and improve your Presentation materials over time.

In the classroom

The Confusion Flag is visible in the icons displayed at the top of the screen when viewing the Presentation:

Students can click this icon on any individual slide in the Presentation to indicate they are "confused". When students view a slide that contains a video as well as Presentation content, they will be asked to select "video" or "slide" when they click on the flag. They can click twice to select both.

Instructors are able to see immediately how many students may have indicated they are confused by viewing the numbered notification that will appear:

• If you notice a large number of students in your class have indicated confusion, you can stop and revisit the content. If only 1 student is confused, you may suggest they use the Discussion tab to ask for further clarification.
• Hover over the flag on a specific slide and you will a breakdown of where confusion has occurred. For example, three confusion flags may link to two slides and one video.

Instructors may also see an overview of slides where confusion was indicated by clicking the "Presentation Thumbnails" button (indicated below). Slides that were flagged by students as confusing will be indicated in the slide overview: