You no longer have to start a Topic from a blank form. The new activity hub has 76 activities you can filter by audience, subject, and goal. Add to Space opens the Topic form with the prompt and suggested settings already filled in, and you can change any of it before you add the Topic. You can reach the hub from the app, too.
76 activities in one place
The hub has 72 prompts and 4 guides. Finish the sentence at the top of the page to narrow them down: choose who you're planning for, a subject, and what you want people to do. Audiences run from elementary through higher ed, and also include e-learning and training, events and outreach, and PD and school communication. Your choices stay in the page address, so you can send a filtered list to a colleague.
Each prompt has its own page that explains why it works, how to run it, and how to make it yours.
If you already know what you need, start from a collection: formative assessment, student presentations, get to know you, peer feedback, social-emotional learning, and world languages. Each one has short advice for that kind of activity and lists the activities that fit.
Add a prompt to your Space
Every prompt has an Add to Space button. Sign in if you need to, then pick one of your Spaces or make a new one. Vivipod opens the same Add Topic form you always use, with the title and prompt filled in.
Nothing is created until you choose Create Topic, so you can edit the wording for your class first.
Settings you can see at a glance
Each prompt suggests a recording length, whether posts need your approval, and whether comments are on. Some also suggest an open or private Space. You'll see these on the activity cards, and as pills on the Add to a Space page. Hover over a pill, move to it with the keyboard, or tap it to read what the setting does.
They are suggestions, and you decide what your class needs. You can change any of them in the form. If a prompt suggests a longer recording than the Space owner's plan includes, the form starts at the closest length the plan allows and says so. If a prompt works best in a private Space and you choose an open one, you'll see a short reminder, and you can still add it.
Find the hub from the app
There are two new ways to get to the hub:
- Activities is in your profile menu, above Tutorials.
- Browse activities is under the description when you add a Topic. It opens in a new tab, so you won't lose what you've typed.
Tell us what to add
Is there an activity you run every term that isn't in the hub? Write to support@vivipod.com and tell us about it.