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Creating and editing an activity in Studio

Create a new activity, pick an instruction method, and build it in Studio

Written by Marie Xhauflair

Studio is where you build engaging activities, from short learning bites to role-plays and exams, all inside Control

Create an activity

  1. Go to Content > Activities

  2. Click New activity

  3. Choose New activity to build it in Studio

👀 Good to know

Want to add content that lives somewhere else? Choose Add external content instead, see the section below

Select an instruction method

The instruction method is the format of your activity, pick the one that fits your learning goal best

  • Session: a scheduled event, online or on location

  • Learning bite: short, focused learning using storytelling and flexible templates

  • Product Trainer: a timed product knowledge quiz game

  • Role-play: practise a conversation with an AI character

  • Task: a simple action or checkpoint

  • Assignment: learners hand in their own input or upload

  • Video: a video as the main learning content

  • Audio: learning through listening

  • Download: a file learners can download

  • Social challenge: learners post a response for others to see

  • Social challenge with feedback: a social challenge with a review step

  • Exam: a scored test

  • Smart exam: every learner gets a unique exam from your question bank, see below

  • Mood survey: a short pop-up check-in on how learners feel

✏️ Tip

Not sure which one to pick? Learning bite is the most flexible format and works for most learning content

Smart exam

A Smart exam gives every learner a unique exam from your question bank

  • Sort your questions into categories

  • Set how many questions to draw from each category, for example 3 from each of 5

Everyone is tested on the same topics at the same difficulty, but no two exams are alike!

Customise your activity tile

After choosing a method, give your activity its tile:

  • A title

  • An image

  • A label and icon (optional)

  • A Content ID, filled in for you based on the title, you can change it if you like

Click Create to open the Studio editor

Build your activity

For a learning bite, you build your activity slide by slide with templates

  1. Click the + between slides to add a template

  2. Choose a template, like Start, Accordion or Fill in the blanks

  3. Click a slide to edit its content in the preview or the left panel

Handy tools in the editor:

  • Clock icon: see and restore earlier versions

  • Improve with Agent: let the Studio Agent help you write or improve your content

  • Translation: add or check other languages

  • Comments: review and comment together with colleagues

Save and publish

  1. Click Save version at the top, describe what you changed and click Save

  2. Click Publish to make the activity available

🚧 Be careful

Publishing alone doesn't show the activity to learners, add it to a journey, programme or automation as well

Add external content

Choose Add external content to bring in content from outside Studio:

  • Upload SCORM package: upload a ZIP export and create a SCORM activity

  • Connect LTI solution: connect an existing learning tool via LTI

  • LTI bulk upload: upload an Excel file with LTI configurations, a template is available to download

  • Link: link to an external document

Good to know

  • Collapse the left editing menu with the – icon for a wider view

  • Zoom in or out with the percentage dropdown at the top right

  • Preview your activity on different screen sizes with the device toggle

  • Click the pencil icon to go back to editing after previewing

Related: Version history of activities, Adding a SCORM activity, How to set up LTI 1.1 and Review and comment in Studio

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