Activities give students a focused task to work through with Bloom. You decide what students should do, how the tutor should help, and what counts as completion. Afterwards, use Results to see who has completed the activity and explore each student's feedback and session summaries.
Before you start
Use an account with permission to manage activities for your Bloom. Open Activities from the sidebar and select the Bloom you want to work with. Have a clear task or learning goal in mind. Learning components are only required if you want completion to depend on proficiency in those components.
1. Choose an activity that fits your goal
Activity ideas are starting points for an editable brief. Adapt the task, context, and level of support to your students. Examples include:
- Writing feedback: students share an excerpt and receive specific feedback while keeping their own voice.
- Role play: Bloom takes a role, such as a customer, so students can rehearse a situation and reflect on their response.
- A debate: students take a position, respond to a counterargument, and explain or revise their reasoning.
- A guided lesson: Bloom introduces an idea, guides practice, and invites a further attempt.
- Explain it back: students teach a concept to Bloom and answer questions about their explanation.
- Recap and recall: students revisit a topic through recall or application questions and feedback.
2. Create your draft
- Choose Create activity.
- Under What would you like students to do?, describe the task, who it is for, and how Bloom should help. Select an idea to populate the brief, or write your own. More ideas reveals additional starting points.
- Select Create draft to generate an editable activity, or Start manually to fill in the fields yourself.
- Review the title and choose how students participate: Conversation for discussion and practice, or Written response for work they write and submit. Both formats allow conversation with Bloom.
3. Set instructions and completion
Instructions for students appear above the conversation or writing area. State the task, relevant materials, and what students should produce. For example: predict what happens to a cell in salt water, explain which substance moves, then apply the explanation to a more dilute solution.
Under When is this activity complete?, choose the finish point that matches your task:
- After feedback: available for Written response. One submission and feedback completes the activity, even if the answer needs improvement.
- When students complete what's asked: Bloom checks their work against Instructions for students and gives feedback if more work is needed.
- When custom criteria are met: write explicit requirements, such as submitting a revision and explaining one change. Students also see these criteria.
- When learning components reach proficiency: select the knowledge and skills to practise. Every selected component must reach Bloom's proficiency target. You can reorder the components to set the teaching sequence.
4. Guide the tutor
Expand More options to add Instructions for Bloom. These guide the tutor and are not shown directly to students. Specify its role, how much help to provide, and any steps to follow. For example, ask Bloom to prompt for a prediction before offering hints and to let the student explain their reasoning.
You can also choose who starts the conversation and add Feedback guidance to describe what feedback should focus on. Keep the student task, tutor guidance, and completion requirements consistent.
5. Preview the student experience and publish
Select Save draft and preview for a new activity, or Preview for an existing one. Try the task as a student: read the instructions, answer Bloom's opening question, or write and submit a response. Check whether the tutor offers the intended level of help and whether the completion requirements are clear.
Revise the activity as needed, then select Publish when it is ready. To list it on students' Activities page, leave Show in Activities enabled under More options. Turning it off removes it from that list so it can be presented through programs that use it.
Students open a published activity in their Bloom, read the task, and work through the conversation or written response. Depending on your settings, they may receive feedback, revise their work, or continue practising selected learning components.
6. See who has completed the activity
Open the activity and select the Results tab. The summary separates students who are complete, in progress, or not started. Use the status filters and student search to focus on the people you want to review.
The roster shows each student's status, session count, last session, and completion information. Where the activity tracks learning-component proficiency, it also shows progress and components reached.
7. Explore each student's performance
Select a student with results, or View feedback, to open their detail panel. Review Bloom's feedback, concepts discussed, open misconceptions, and summaries of individual sessions. These help you see what the student explained and where a follow-up conversation may be useful.
Session details include timing, message counts, and learning evidence where available. Select Write feedback to ask Bloom to generate a feedback summary from the student's reviewed activity sessions. Successful generation uses your Teaching Space's AI-generation allowance. Bloom's observations support your review; they do not assign a mark or establish that the student can perform independently.
Common questions
Why can't students see an activity?
Check that it is published, belongs to the Bloom students are using, and has Show in Activities enabled if you expect it to appear in their list. An activity created for a program may have this option turned off.
Do I need learning components?
Only for proficiency-based completion. You can use another finish point without them. To prepare components, see how to build a course knowledge graph.
Why does a completed student have no feedback yet?
If completion depends on proficiency, prior learning can satisfy the requirement without a session in this activity. The roster may show completion while no activity session results are available to open.