Class Activities

Intelligent, deadline-based activity submissions for polls and quizzes

If your students run out of time and forget to tap "Submit", they need not worry - Acadly will submit their response automatically

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How to collaborate with Class Assistants for rewarding offline participation inside the classroom

Class Assistants can award offline participation points to students in the class, while the professor teaches. Learn all about this here.

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How to award Class Participation Points to students for 'offline' participation, and how to export this data

The Class Analytics (Lecture Analytics) page is home to a unique feature - the in-class participation rewards page

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Word Clouds for Classroom Discussions on Acadly | Professor Guide

How to set up Dynamic Word Clouds for your class discussions on Acadly

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How can I copy and move activities?

Published activities can be copied, and unpublished activities can be copied or moved to another lecture - in any course

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How can I export quiz, poll, attendance, participation and assignment data from Acadly?

You can export quiz, poll, attendance, assignment and participation data - for a particular lecture/ activity AND for the course as a whole

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Can I hide or withhold quiz or poll results from students?

Quiz and Poll results can be withheld till the deadline elapses, but not indefinitely. At some point, they should know how they did, right?

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Is it possible to view activities grouped by type, rather than by lecture?

To see a folder-like view where activities are grouped by the kind of activity, use the Filter Activities option on the timeline

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Is it possible to add activities or content to a lecture after it ends, as a post-class activity?

While there's no post-class activity section, you can use the Lecture Summary section to share files and links with your class.

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Can students post questions anonymously on Acadly?

Students can ask questions anonymously on Acadly. As a professor, you can moderate anonymous queries before they become visible to everyone

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My course just ended. Is it possible to reuse or copy its content and activities?

Yes! Once your classes are over, you can 'Archive' a course, copy activities from it, and/or extend the course duration for a few more days.

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Queries: What if a student posts an inappropriate query?

Instructors have the option to hide queries.

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Queries: Why are some query icons blue?

A query status can be "Open" or "Closed". All open queries are blue.

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Resources: How can I share a video that is not hosted on YouTube?

Small files can be uploaded directly, but they won't play inside the browser directly.

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Quizzes: Why are there three different scoring schemes?

Why there are "incentivizing", "neutral", and "penalizing" scoring schemes inside Acadly.

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Quizzes: What kind of quiz questions does Acadly support?

Multiple Choice Questions and True/False Questions.

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How can I move an activity from one class to another?

The Class In-charge can move an unpublished activity from a lecture only if the lecture status is "Closed", "Cancelled", or "No Record".

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What is the deadline for in-class activities?

The instructor is prompted to set a deadline for in-class activities at the time of publishing

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How can I set the deadline for a pre-class activity?

Deadlines for Pre-class activities CANNOT be set manually. It is automatically set to 15 min before the scheduled class start time.

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How can I add an activity?

Go to the lecture page and tap the + button to add a pre-class or in-class activity.

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Why can't I publish a pre-class activity even though the class is yet to start?

Pre-class activities can be published only till 30 minutes before the scheduled lecture start time

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Who can create activities?

The Class In-charge

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What are In-class Activities?

Things you want students to do during a lecture

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What are Pre-class Activities?

Things you want students to do before a lecture begins; prep work.

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Queries: Who can close a query?

Only the asker of a query can close it

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