Activity Guide

Add an activity guide to assist users.

What is an Activity Guide?

Use an Activity Guide if you want to provide your users with instructions on how to complete specific interactions, including: dragging & dropping, selecting & matching, or swiping.

Quick steps: how to create & edit an Activity Guide

1. Open Authoring. Create or open a Learning Story, Assessment or Survey content type.

2. Add or open a Story, Assessment or Survey. Open the Editor.

3. Add an Activity Guide and place it directly in front of a Drag & Drop, Memory Game or Swipe Card page. Select the + icon and choose Activity Guide from the Add Page options.

4. Update the Activity Guide page to edit. Select the page to view the Page Options, and select Update to add and edit text.

5. Choose a Guide Type and customise. You can customise the colour, heading and text instructions (optional).

Activity Guide Type, Options & Custom Text

Guide Type & Options

Guide Type Select the Guide Type you would like to add:

• Dragging & Placing Guide,

• Selecting & Matching Guide, or

• Swiping Guide.

Highlight Colour The guides are presented in grayscale and will make use of one highlight colour. Select an alternative if you do not wish to use the theme default.

Custom Text (Optional)

If you do not add custom text, the default Guide Activity instructions will be used.

Heading Each guide is presented with custom text (to see this text, simply save the page).

Guide Text If you wish to write your own copy, you can enter a heading and some text in the spaces provided.