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Adding Student Contributions To A Shout It Out! Activity

Students will enjoy adding their contributions to your Lesson Activity Builder activities. Students can add text or images, depending on activity requirements. Have other students position comments into categories or use the contributions to begin discussions.

ClosedAdding student text contributions

After a student has signed in to the activity using the LAB Student Contribution Activity dialog window on their computer or mobile device browser, the Activity response window opens.

  1. Students enter their contribution in the text window. A student may enter up to 150 characters into the window including spaces, and can contribute the number of times specified by the teacher.

    If you previously selected Categorized placements, the text window includes a category menu.

    After making their contributions, students select the category to which they wish to contribute from the Select a category drop-down menu.

  2. Students press Send Response to send their contributions to the Notebook Lesson Activity Builder activity page.

    The student contribution appears on the Notebook LAB activity page.

    In Categorized view, click the to minimize the activity ID window to view contributions that appear in the window on the right of the activity page. Click to reopen the window.

Tip 

You can move a student contribution from one category to another by pressing the student contribution and dragging it to the other category. (This feature is available in SMART Notebook v.15.2.)

ClosedAdding student image contributions

  1. After a student has signed in to the activity using the LAB Student Contribution Activity dialog window, the Activity response window opens.

  2. The student presses Select an image.

    The device file explorer opens.

  3. The student selects the image and presses Open.

    As with the text contribution, the image contribution appears on the Notebook Lesson Activity Builder page.

    To enlarge the image contribution, the teacher can press the image on the Notebook page, and the image will enlarge.

    To return the image to its normal size, press outside the enlarged image, or press the X in the top right corner of the enlarged image.

Important 

A student may contribute 50 images per activity. If the student exceeds this amount, a warning appears, and additional image contributions by that student do not appear for the current activity.

Note 

To delete a contribution, drag it to the Recycle bin at the top left of the Lesson Activity Builder activity page. After a contribution is deleted, it cannot be retrieved.

  1. To leave the activity, students can press the application exit symbol on their device browsers .