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Tips for teachers: lesson maker floater

Posted on September 5, 2023February 26, 2025 by Wordsmyth

• Click the “X” to close the floater temporarily on the current page. Refreshing the page will bring the floater back.

• Clicking the “Stop” button will end the lesson-making process.

• Clicking on the lesson name in the floater will take you back to the lessons page.

• Click [add to lesson] to add the activity to your lesson.

For assessment activities—multiple choice, matching, fill-in-the-blank, and spelling—there are additional options on the floater for you to choose from.

1. You can set the activity for “Study” or for “Test.”

  • “Study” mode allows students to change the settings if they like and to add Help functions, such as making the answers available.
  • “Test” mode will lock in the settings that you have chosen and disable all Help functions, such as “check answers,” so that the students can take the quiz as a real test.

Test mode is displayed but disabled on the initial screen. It only becomes active after clicking the “Go” button to go inside the activity. This is to make sure you’ve reviewed the questions, specified all settings, and decided that what you see is what you want for your students. 

When students click on an assignment task in test mode, it will take them to the question page directly, with only “print” and “submit” buttons available.

2. By checking the “randomization” option, the order of the questions in the test will be randomized each time the assessment task is activated. Students can’t easily share their answers because their questions are in different orders.


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