Activity Output Branching

Using activity outputs for branching

Using this branching type, you -the teacher, get to create "conditions" or use scores from activities and map these to branches.

Creating activity output branching

This involves basing the branching decisions from the output of a particular activity - that is, output from an activity based on what the learner has contributed.

Some activities may have specific conditions (such as the number of correct responses for an Assessment), and most activities support Text-based conditions, where LAMS can make branching decisions based on certain words that a student has or has not typed into an activity.

The Q&A, Forum, Survey, Chat and Notebook activities all support these branching conditions.

There are two key concepts involved in Tool-Based branching: Conditions and Mappings.

• Conditions are a way of grouping learners by their performance in the relevant activity. For example, a condition may be based on whether a student has answered all questions in an assessment correctly or not. Conditions can also be text based though and teachers can create these text-based conditions as best fit their needs.

• Mappings describe which Condition sends learners to which branch. Once LAMS determines which Condition the student is a part of, the Mapping is used to send that student to a particular branch.

• A particular Condition may only be mapped to a single branch, but a single branch may have several different conditions mapped to it.

Here's an example on how to use the score of an assessment activity to determine which branch the student should go to.

Creating a branching where teachers assign students to branches based on the output of an assessment

Creating conditions for branching

All LAMS activities produce an output type that can be used for branching. For instances the Assessment activity by default gives you the following outputs to create conditions:

• Average score

• Best score

• First score

• Number of attempts

• Time taken (in seconds)

• Last total score

But also, Assessment can provide you with the output for an specific question -giving you the possibility to further enhance the adaptability.

In text based activities, like this Q&A, you can create your own conditions:

Creating conditions to later use in branching in Q&A