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  • Q&A Content
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  • Importing questions from the Question Bank
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  • Leader selection
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  • Show answers from others
  • Rate and comment on each others' answers
  • Learning Outcomes
  • Reflection and End of Activity

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  1. Activity Tools
  2. Q&A

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To add a Q&A activity to your design, just drag and drop the activity in the authoring canvas and double click on it to set it up.

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Q&A Content

On the Basic or Content tab, you are able to set:

  1. Title Make sure you use a meaningful title that summarises what the students are meant to do.

  2. Instructions Add general instructions about how to answer the question or questions (not the question it self though!).

Questions list

The questions section is where you can add your questions.

Adding questions

Questions in the Q&A activity are essay type of questions. When adding questions directly by pressing the "Add question" button to begin.

When adding a question, questions must have a title and a question description (the body of the question).

Questions settings

In the question settings, you can specify whether the question requires a minimum number of words (optional).

Questions can be also measure or tag to a Learning Outcome. If so, you can append the corresponding learning outcome to the question.

Importing questions from the Question Bank

By clicking the “Question Bank” panel, several options are displayed. One of which is to add questions on From Question Bank is available.

When you select a question, then the question is displayed in full including the question version (Question Bank supports question versioning).

Once you decide on the question to be added, by clicking on the “Import” button, the question is then added to the Readiness Assurance Test.

Additionally, by clicking on “Stats”, you can view detailed analytics for the selected question.

Powerful Analytics

The analytics display the question in its full life-cycle -in which other lessons it has been used, full item analysis including (difficulty, discrimination index and point biserial coefficient). This is particularly important for the lecturer as it gives a clear picture on the reliability of the questions to include in their TBL lessons.

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Advanced Settings

Leader selection

Question options

One questions per page: in the case where you have more than one question for Q&A, enabling this option will render each question individually to students. So students would first need to answer the first question to be able to see the next question. By default this option is OFF, therefore all questions are rendered to the students in one page.

Allow HTML/rich text editor: when this option is on, then students are able to create responses that include rich text formatting.

No re-edit allowed: when the option is on, then students will not be able to re-edit their answers once submitted.

Show answers from others

When students see each others' answers after they have submit their own, they can gain perspective from their peers.

When the option for Show answers from other learners is turned on, then students - right after a student answers the questions, he/she will be able to see the responses from other students.

By default only the answers of other students are shown but not their names next to their answers. However, you can show the name of the students next to their answer by selecting "Show names of other learners".

Rate and comment on each others' answers

When enabling the option to rate and comment on others' answers you are able to set the criteria for students to rate and comment.

You can add multiple rating criteria, set a minimum and maximum number of answers to rate and finally allow students to comment on others' responses - setting a minimum words for commenting when needed.

Learning Outcomes

Mapping learning outcomes to activities is very useful for curriculum mapping.

As with all activities in LAMS, you can map your learning outcomes to this activity. If you want to add a learning outcome, just search for the particular outcome or type a new one it will be added to your list of learning outcomes for the future.

You can search Learning Outcomes by code or name.

Reflection and End of Activity

As in all LAMS activities, you are able to get your students to reflect on the activity as soon as they finish. This is an important part of learning and research shows that it is when we reflect upon what we just learn that long lasting learning forms.

Additionally, as all questions in LAMS are saved in the , you are able to specify the question collection where this question should be saved.

You can reuse previously created questions by adding them from the .

The tool is another LAMS activity that allows students to select a student leader or representative for their group. If this activity is present in your design, then you can specify that the Q&A questions should only be answered by the selected leader. See the for further details and examples.

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Adding learning outcomes to Q&A
Adding instructions for students to reflect on the activity.
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