# 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](/lams/tools/assessment.md)), 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](/lams/tools/q-and-a.md), [Forum](/lams/tools/forum.md), [Survey](/lams/tools/survey.md), [Chat](/lams/tools/chat.md) and [Notebook](/lams/tools/notebook.md) 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.

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

All [LAMS activities](/lams/tools/activities-and-tools.md) produce an output type that can be used for branching. For instances the [Assessment activity](/lams/tools/assessment.md) by default gives you the following outputs to create conditions:

* Average score&#x20;
* 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.&#x20;

In text based activities, like this [Q\&A](/lams/tools/q-and-a.md), you can create your own conditions:

![Creating conditions to later use in branching in Q\&A](/files/j4Ad840HUpv3G4MiVDXb)


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