How do I add activities to my course?

Echo provides activity templates to facilitate quick creation of a variety of activities that support personalized and project-based learning models. You can create Wikis and Discussion threads to promote collaborative knowledge creation and idea exchange, Journals and Blogs for personal reflection, RSS feeds to support research, as well as more traditional assignments and assessments.

To add activities:

Click the Editor (pencil) icon on the course that needs an activity.

HINT: If you have a course with derivatives and you want the activity you are creating to go to each derivative make sure you add the activity in the Base course. If you only want the activity to show up in one of the derivatives, click the editor icon to add the activity to the derivative course only.

In the editor tool of the course click the +Add Activity.

This opens the Add activity screen, where you can:

1. Use the Search bar to find any Activity type, template, or tool that is available to you and to browse your Library.
2. Star activities that you use frequently, so you can quickly find them again using the Starred filter.
3. Select Built-in to filter for activity types that are native to Echo.
4. Click Learn more where available to find out more about the activity.
5. Click Add to add the activity to your course.
6. Filter to show Activity Templates or External tools (LTI 1.3) that are available. These filters appear only if they have been added to your domain.

Echo is constantly being improved based on the feedback from users and we strive to keep our documentation up to date.  If this document doesn’t match what you are seeing in Echo, please let us know.