Pivot Interactives is comprised of over 500 activities through our Pivot Interactives library. However, not every interaction on the website is an interaction with an activity. Let's learn more about the journey of an activity.
Phase One: The Activity Phase
URL Format:
https://app.pivotinteractives.com/activities/*/preview
When you search the library, click the preview button, or create your own Pivot, you are looking at and working with an activity.
The picture above shows an example of an activity from the Pivot Interactives library.
Activities are like lesson plans: they're what you plan to do with the students.
Activities live in a library. Activities do not save responses: anything done while previewing them is not assigned to a person or account. Activities are shared through libraries. Activities can be edited by the activity owner, admin, or editor. Activities have a few key characteristics:
Activities have categories, which are used to filter activities in the library.
Activities have components. Components are the pieces of the activities. These could be videos, embedded web content, questions, graphs, and more!
Activity components have scores and correct answers - these are set individually in the editor.
These characteristics can be managed once you have copied an activity to your library. When it's in your library, you will have edit access to the activity.
Phase Two: The Assignment Phase
URL Format:
https://app.pivotinteractives.com/assignments/*/scores
When you assign an activity from your library to a class, you create an assignment.
The picture above shows four examples of assignments from a class in Pivot Interactives.
Assignments are the artifacts that you hand out to students. Often, we consider these as individual tasks in a grade book.
Assignments live in each class. They save student work in the form of a response. Assignments are shared with the graders on a course; no one else has access to this data. The overall components of an assignment - like what a question says or the correct answer to a question - are edited at the activity level. Any student work is edited at the response level. Assignments have a few key characteristics:
Assignments have Start Dates and End Dates. These are set when the assignment is created and are specific to each class.
Assignments have First Visible Dates and Last Visible Dates. These are set when the assignment is created and are specific to each class.
Assignments can be assigned to Co-Lab groups, Individuals, or Everyone in a class.
These characteristics can be managed on the Assignment Details page. To get to this page, click on the Class the assignment is in, then click on the assignment's title, then click on the Details tab.
Phase Three: The Response Phase
URL Format:
https://app.pivotinteractives.com/assignments/*/responses/*
When you assign an activity from your library to a class, you create an assignment.
The picture above shows five examples of responses from an assignment in Pivot Interactives.
If assignments are the things we assign to students, responses are the student's responses to said things. This is what the student turns in. It's the assignment with the student's responses on it.
Responses live in each assignment. They are unique to each student or group. Responses can be graded by the instructor or the class graders; no one else can access this data. Responses can only be edited by a student or a member of the co-lab group. Teachers, graders, even admins, and activity writers cannot modify or change student responses. Responses have a few key characteristics:
Responses have a score. Scores are the total points earned from all questions within the assignment. Scores are available on the individual response, where they can be set to a custom value OR from the Scores page of the assignment.
Responses have an Instructor Status. This is a record of the last instructor interaction with the response. These typically include:
Assigned: The response was assigned by the instructor.
Grading: The response was graded by the instructor.
Pending Revisions: The response has pending revisions requested by the instructor.
Final Grade: The response's grade has been finalized and sent to the LMS grade book (if an LTI 1.3 grade book connection exists).
Responses have a Student Status. This is a record of the last student interaction with the response. These typically include:
No Change: The student has not begun working on their response.
In Progress: The student has begun working on their response.
Submitted: The student has finished working on their response and is awaiting feedback.
Pending Revisions: The response has pending revisions requested by the instructor for the student to complete.
Final Grade: The response's grade has been finalized and sent to the LMS grade book (if an LTI 1.3 grade book connection exists).
These characteristics can be managed on the Assignment Scores page. To get to this page, click on the Class the assignment is in, then click on the assignment's title. To see an individual student's response, click on their name in this Scores list.