Working with Activities

You can use our activities as-is, edit activities, or create your own.

34 articles

Written by Linda Detwiler, Trevor Register and Peter Bohacek

Quick Start: Modifying and Building Activities

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

Written by Linda Detwiler. Updated over a week ago

Text Reader Functionality

Learn about the new text reader functionality in Pivot Interactives.

Written by Linda Detwiler. Updated over a week ago

Deep Dive: Hints

Learn more about the Add Hint feature.

Written by Linda Detwiler. Updated over a week ago

Text tool: Tables

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

Written by Linda Detwiler. Updated over a week ago

Searching and Filtering the Pivot Interactives Libraries

Here's how to find activities to assign to your students

Written by Trevor Register. Updated over a week ago

How to Create a New Assignment

Written by Linda Detwiler. Updated over a week ago

How to Modify a Pre-existing Assignment

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

Written by Linda Detwiler. Updated over a week ago

How to set and manage due dates

Setting and managing due dates with Pivot Interactives

Written by Trevor Register. Updated over a week ago

Creating Links to Pivot Interactives Assignments

Post a link that students can use to access a Pivot Interactives assignment directly.

Written by Trevor Register. Updated over a week ago

Working with Locked Sections

You can require students to submit the current section before proceeding. This is useful when students are making and testing predictions.

Written by Peter Bohacek. Updated over a week ago

Copy components between activities

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

Written by Trevor Register. Updated this week

Using Auto-Grading Multiple-Choice Questions

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

Written by Peter Bohacek. Updated over a week ago

Using the Pivot Interactives Iris™ Light and Color Measuring Tools

The Pivot Interactives Iris™ tools allow you to take light- and color-based quantitative measurements directly from a video.

Written by Trevor Register. Updated over a week ago

Overview of Numerical Questions in Pivot Interactives

Learn how to make and use auto-graded, randomized numerical questions in Pivot Interactives

Written by Peter Bohacek. Updated this week

How to use Numerical Questions

How to use the Numerical Question component.

Written by Trevor Register. Updated over a week ago

Collection Variables

How to use Collection Variables.

Written by Trevor Register. Updated over a week ago

How to Create an Expression that Evaluates Within a Text Box

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

Written by Trevor Register. Updated over a week ago

How to Set and Manage Visible Dates

A visible date allows you to reveal and hide an activity from your students.

Written by Linda Detwiler. Updated this week

PhET and Pivot Interactives

How can I use PhET simulations and Pivot Interactives together?

Written by Trevor Register. Updated over a week ago

Sharing Activities with the Community Library

You can share activities you make with your colleagues or with other instructors who use Pivot Interactives using the Community Library.

Written by Peter Bohacek. Updated over a week ago

Archive an Activity to remove from a Library

If you want to remove an activity from your library, you can archive it.

Written by Trevor Register. Updated over a week ago

Custom Libraries

Use Custom Libraries to better organize and share your activities with others.

Written by Trevor Register. Updated over a week ago

Deep Dive: Multiple Choice Questions

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

Written by Linda Detwiler. Updated over a week ago

Deep Dive: Open-Ended Questions

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

Written by Linda Detwiler. Updated over a week ago

Deep Dive: Video Instance

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

Written by Linda Detwiler. Updated over a week ago

Deep Dive: Graphs

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

Written by Linda Detwiler. Updated over a week ago

Deep Dive: Data Tables

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

Written by Linda Detwiler. Updated over a week ago

Deep Dive: Numbered Instructions

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

Written by Linda Detwiler. Updated over a week ago

Deep Dive: Announcements

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

Written by Linda Detwiler. Updated over a week ago

Deep Dive: Modifying a Section

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

Written by Linda Detwiler. Updated over a week ago

Deep Dive: Inside the Text Editor

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

Written by Linda Detwiler. Updated over a week ago

Deep Dive: Activity Info

Learn about the Activity Info tab of the editor.

Written by Linda Detwiler. Updated over a week ago

Answer Keys for Pivot Interactives Activities

Is there an answer key for this activity?

Written by Trevor Register. Updated over a week ago

Using LaTeX to format Equations and Text in Pivot Interactives

Written by Trevor Register. Updated over a week ago