This documentation guides teachers on managing learning activities(exercises), including creating, editing, and setting activity content and permissions on the Una Platform.

1. Open Activity Library

Click “Activity Library” on the left menu.

(When the Menu is collapsed, click the Institution icon.)

2. Access Activity in Activity Library

• At the Activity Library page, click “Other Activities”.

In “Other Activities”, you can find those activities prepared by you or shared with you. You can check out information of other activities, such as the “School”, “Type” of Activities, “Title”, “Tags”, “Last Modified” and the “Editable” column. 

• Click “Details” to check on the detailed information of other activities.  

3. Create a new learning activity

Click the “+ Create” button at the upper-right corner to make or upload learning activities you prepared.  

4. Setup General Information

You are required to set up the general information of the Learning Activity. Students can check out the general information if the teaching session is opened. 

1. Click the text box to enter the title of Learning Activity (e.g. MATH – Week 9 Exercise)
2. Click the text box to enter the course description  

Setup Tags

Set up the tags of your Learning Activity, such as “Subject” and “Keyword” to search and classify the Learning Activity more effectively. 

1. Click the text box to enter the keywords of Learning Activity. After entering a keyword, use the spacebar function of your keyboard to enter the next keyword.  
2. To delete a tag, move the cursor of your mouse to the tag you want to delete and click on the cross sign 

Remarks: You need to enter all of the information with the * sign in order to create a Learning Activity. 

5. Setup Access Right

The teacher who creates the Learning Activity can edit the access right of the other teachers, it includes “Admin”, “Edit” and “View”. The upper blank space area represents those users who have access right while the lower blank space area represents the users that are excluded from admin.  

• Admin: Teachers who own this access right can view, use, edit Learning Activity and change the access right 
• Edit: Teachers who own this access right can view, use and edit Learning Activity 
• View: Teachers who own this access right can only view and use the Learning Activity 

If you want to change the access right during the creation of Learning Activity, follow the steps as follow: 

1. Select the type of access right from the left-hand side, such as “Admin”, “Edit” and “View”. 
2. Enter the user’s name in the blank space area to search for the user of your choice. A list will appear to show the searching result. 
3. If you need to delete a user, move the cursor of your mouse to the user’s name and click on the cross sign 

Click the “Create” button after completing all the steps. After clicking it, a window will pop up, click “Yes” to finish it.  

6. Setup Task instructions

In this session, you can enter task instructions for students to read before finishing this task. You can also upload photos, videos and hyperlinks. Besides, you can set up “Lock-step” on this page. 

1. Task Version: It shows the current version of the task, such as Version 1 and Version 2. 
2. Task Title: Click the text box to enter the name of the task.  
3. Question Type (Short QnA / Long AI QnA): Task type is categorized as Short and Long QnA. You can click on this list to decide the question type for the task. (We will explain more in the next session)
4. Text Editing Tool: This tool can edit task instructions and QnA. The detailed usage will be shown as follow. Click the text box to enter the task instructions and details of a task. 
5. Task List: It shows all the tasks of the entire Learning Activity. 
6. New Task: Click this button to add a new task. 
7. Lock-step: Click this button to add “lock-step”. 

Features of Text Editing Tool

You can start to create tasks after understanding the basic functions of our interface. You can enter Task Title, choose Task Type, and then use “Markdown” or “External Document” to start editing task details and task content.  

1. OCR Tool for different languages
2. Bold, Italic, Header 
3. Newline, Bulleted list, Numbered list, Table 
4. Hyperlink, Image, Embedded video (hyperlink of the video is needed) 
5. Preview Mode, Full-Screen Mode 
6. Detailed “Markdown” instruction (Click this button to read the detailed instructions of the Text Editing Tool if necessary) 

Integrate with external document

Integrate with external document from Google Drive 

“External Document” is used to embed documents from other cloud platforms into Una Tasks. It can be used as the task introduction as teaching materials, e.g. introductive PDF file or videos, of your Learning Activities. You can upload your documents on Google Drive or Microsoft OneDrive first, then embed the document inside the website following the steps below. 

1. Login to Google Drive, click on the document you want to upload 
2. Open the “File” button on the top menu
3. Open “Share”, then Click “Publish to the web” 

4. Click “Embed” 
5. Click “Publish” 
6. Click “OK” if a pop-up window shows up to ask are you sure to publish the selection
7. Copy the embed text 

8. Go back to Una Platform, change Task Instruction type From “Markdown” to “External Document”

9. Give a title to the External Document

10. Paste the copied text in the text box

11. Click “Preview” to check the result

Recommended Solution: Upload your document in PDF format to Google Drive and set it to “share with everyone.” Copy and paste the link onto the Una Platform, then change the link setting from “View” to “Preview.” This method allows students to read task instructions without extra login steps.

Integrate with external document from Microsoft OneDrive 

1. Login OneDrive, click on the document you want to upload 
2. Click the “File” button on the left-hand side 

3. After opening up the menu, click “Share” 
4. Click the “Embed” button 
5. Copy the Embed Code inside the frame, and you can see a reminder that show you successfully copied the code. 

6. Go back to Una Platform, change Task Instruction type to “External Document”
7. Give a title to the External Document
8. Paste the copied text in the text box
9. Click “Preview” to check the result

No matter which method you use, if you successfully embed the document to the website, you will see the document you uploaded in the preview panel. 

Remarks: You can embed more than one external document to each task by clicking “Add document”. 

7. Set up questions

Tasks are divided into Short QnA and Long AI QnA (Option – Coding will be deprecated soon).

• Short QnA: MC (Multiple Choice / Multiple Select), Exact Match, AI Evaluate
  (Maximum 10 AI questions for a Short QnA task)
• Long AI QnA: Text only
  (Maximum 1 AI questions for a Long AI QnA task)

Set up short questions

1. Set up the task type – Click the pull-down menu to choose Short QnA (Include MC, Exact match, AI Evaluate) and Long AI QnA (Text only)

Set up AI short questions

Enter the question – Click the text box to enter your questions 

1. Set up the Marks – Click the box next to “Marks”, change the number inside the box to set up the Marks for each question 
2. Enter the question – Click the text box to enter your questions 
3. New task – Click the “+New Task” button to add new tasks 
4. Set up “Lock-step” – Click this button to add lock-step  
5. Drag & drop the sequence of the tasks on the left-hand side of the task list 
6. After editing the task of the Learning Activity, you need to click the “Save” button 

Edit Coding Task

When editing the Coding Task, you can add Sample Code inside the Coding Task after entering the task instructions on “Markdown” or “External Document”. 

1. Click the pull-down menu and choose “Coding” 
2. Click the “+ Add” button 
3. After the coding interface pops up, you can import your Sample Code to the coding area (You can also upload Hex File to add your Sample Code). Visit “Micro:bit coding” to read more and learn the steps. 
4. Click the “Save” button 

Edit QnA Task

QnA tasks are divided into Short Questions and Multiple Choice (MC) Questions, they are slightly different when entering the answers. The marks of QnA Tasks are counted by each question. If there are 5 questions and the student can earn 1 mark for each correct answer, the total marks will be 5 marks.  

A. Short Questions 

You need to set up the Task Type as “Answer Box” in order to edit Question Task. Click the text box below the “Answer” title font to enter the first answer. Click the “Enter” button on your keyboard to enter the next answer option (if necessary).  

 B. Multiple Choice Questions 

You need to set up the Task Type as “MC” in order to edit Question Task. Click the text box below the “Answer” title font to enter the first answer option. Click the “Enter” button on your keyboard to enter the next answer option. After entering all of the answer options, check (✓) the square area beside the correct answer to determine it is the question’s correct answer.  

Notice: The auto answer-checking function in the dashboard can only show the right or wrong of the MC questions 

Use Shortcuts to Add/Delete/Duplicate Question

There are three shortcuts’ buttons besides the “marks” of each question editing panel. From left to right, they are “Add question”, “Delete question” and “Duplicate question”. 

1. Add question: Click this button to add a new question. 
2. Delete question: Click this button to delete a question. 
3. Duplicate question: Click this button to copy both the question and answer. 

Setup Task Validation

The function of Task Validation is to ensure students are meeting a particular answering requirement before submitting the task. 

1. “None”: Students can submit the task with no Task Validation requirement.  
2. “Not Blank” : Students need to answer all the questions before submitting the task. 
3. “Correct”: Students need to answer all the questions correctly before submitting the task. 

Edit Activity

After creating a Learning Activity, you can edit the Learning Activity if you own the Manage and Edit Permission. Una Platform will take the edited version and save it as your Learning Activity. Here are the ways for you to edit a Learning Activity on the Una Platform. 

1. Click “Activity Library” 
2. Click “Other Activities” 
3. Choose the Activity you want to edit and click “Details” 
4. Click and select the activity version you want to edit in the drop-down menu  
5. Click the “Edit” button) 

Understand the versions control of components

Each time you edit a component (e.g., general, subject, task) in a Learning Activity, it saves as a new Version.

1. Choose the component you want to edit, click on the menu and click on the task version you want to edit 
2. Click the “Edit” button
3. After making changes, click “save” upon completion 

Select Component Versions and Publish Learning Activity

After updating different components, choose the component’s versions you want to use in the new Edition of the learning activity. Click “Publish” at the top to create the new edition. When you create a new virtual classroom, you can then select this new edition.

Change Activity Permission

If you own the management permission, follow the steps below to edit Activity Permission. 

1. Click the “Permission Setting” button 
2. Click the “Edit” button 
3. Choose the permission type from the left-hand side, such as “Admin”, “Edit” and “View” 
4. Enter the user’s name in the blank space, choose the user from the list below 
5. If you want to remove one user’s Right, click the cross sign besides user name 
6. Click the “Save” button after completing all the steps 
7. Click “Close” 

Click the “Publish” button after you finished all the modifications. 

Editing an existing activity

1. Click “Activity Library” on the left menu.
2. Go to “Other Activities,” find the activity, and click “Details.”

3. Click “Edit” in the red box, switch to the “Tasks” tab, then click “Edit” in the blue rectangle.

4. Edit as needed and save changes. The Task Version number will increment. Click “Publish” to make the changes available for session creation.

Modify the status of a lesson

1. Navigate to the virtual classroom.
2. Click “Complete”. 
3. Confirm your action by clicking “OK”.

Please note that once the session status is marked as ‘Completed,’ it will no longer accept any additional attempts from students.