Pivot Interactives

Use this article as a jump point to find more information about editing and building activities.

Quick Start: Modifying and Building Activities

Learn how to modify and build drag and drop questions.

Deep Dive: Drag and Drop

In order to edit an activity, a copy must be placed inside of one of your libraries.

How to Modify a Pre-existing Assignment

Our latest component type - Drag and Drop (D&D) - is now in Beta. Learn more about it here.

Meet Drag and Drop

Deep Dive: Hints

Multiple-choice questions can be configured to bye graded automatically and to provide automatic feedback

Using Auto-Grading Multiple-Choice Questions

How to use the Numerical Question component.

How to use Numerical Questions

Meet the latest tool to come to the text editors within Pivot Interactives - Tables!

Text tool: Tables

Use expressions to change what students see in answer choices, teacher instructions, and more.

How to Create an Expression that Evaluates Within a Text Box

How to copy a section and all components within it from one activity and paste it into another

Copy sections between activities

Before you get started editing an activity, it can be helpful to know the power of the Text Editor!

Deep Dive: Inside the Text Editor

This article series includes component specific instructions for modifying and building activities.

Deep Dive: Graphs

Deep Dive: Numbered Instructions

Activities are made up of sections, which can be modified to meet the needs of the activity.

Deep Dive: Modifying a Section

Deep Dive: Open-Ended Questions

Deep Dive: Announcements

Deep Dive: Video Instance

Learn about the Activity Info tab of the editor.

Deep Dive: Activity Info

How copy a part of one activity and paste it into another.

Copy components between activities

Deep Dive: Data Tables

Where can I find images of Pivot Interactives icons?

Pivot Interactives Icons

Deep Dive: Multiple-Choice Questions

Use the popular and powerful LaTeX formatting code to make equations in questions, instructions in your activities

Using LaTeX to format Equations and Text in Pivot Interactives

Collection Variables

Are you a typist? Try these keyboard shortcuts to save you time while editing activities!

FAQ: Keyboard Shortcuts in the Text Editors

How random can we get with Pivot Interactives? Use this as a jumping point to find new ways to mix up your activities!

Randomization Option in Pivot Interactives

Use the browser extensions to translate activities to other languages.

Translating Activities to Other Languages

Reduce cognitive load on students by keeping questions adjacent to relevant interactive content.

Split-View Components

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Activities in our library are fully editable - learn how to customize them here. 