Activity Builder: Overview

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Have a great idea for an activity? Now, you can integrate the Desmos Graphing Calculator into your very own, customized lesson.

 

Give the activity a title: This is the title that people will see when you share the lesson and will be visible on the Activity Landing Page (What's an Activity Landing Page?)

 

Design your lesson: Use graphs, text, student inputs, and images to build an awesome progression of screens. You can also view the lesson from the student perspective by hitting preview.

 

 

Describe your activity: Enter keywords and a description that will allow others to better understand your lesson. Add an image to spice up your lesson. These will be visible on the Activity Landing Page. To share your activity with other teachers, the lesson must be public.

 

 

Share or Run your activity: Now that you've completed your awesome new activity, you can either run or share your activity. Clicking "Start a New Session" will generate a new class code that can be started at any time - just share the code with your students. You can also share your activity with other teachers who will have the opportunity to run it themselves. (Note: Your activity must be considered public to share with other users)

 

 

If you'd like to learn more, check out Starting a Desmos Activity and Navigating the Activity Landing Page

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    T Glenn Blakney

    how can I comment on student graphs in real time?

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    Team Desmos

    T - At the moment, there isn't a way to give feedback to students through the activity, but it is on our list!

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    Noirin Foy

    Is it possible to have students choose answers from a list? For example, choose between Agree or Disagree.

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    Noirin Foy

    Is it possible to enter the symbol when writing a note in activity builder? I want students to evaluate an inequality I have written in my note, but have been unable to enter the inequality symbol in my note. Thanks, Noirin Foy nfoy@lasdschools.org

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    Noirin Foy

    Please ignore my question re the inequality, I figured it out. 

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    Michael Tinich

    I used this Activity Builder last semester and I remember being able to see the student's progress. I used it again today and it was not showing any of the progress of the students. Is this a new feature or are there settings I need to adjust? I use this as my warmup activity and it helps me to know when students are just about wrapped up with the problems.

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    Carrie Stewart

    Is there a way to download student results/submissions?

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    Cknight

    Is there a way to allow students to see the answer key once they have finished the activity?

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    Oostdykkerry

    I would love to be able to send my students the answer key once they have completed the activity as well! 

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    Cole Black

    Is there a way to allow the students to see which of their answers are incorrect in card sort?  They can see that they have answers that are wrong, but I would like for them to be able to see the ones that are wrong so that they may correct those.  

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