Creating New Activities

Activities Builder gives Administrators the ability to create customized assignments for their users.

Here’s how it works:

1. In Activities Builder, click the Create a new Activity button.

2. Select the Category from the drop-down menu. This is where the activity will be saved.

3. Provide a Name and Description for the activity.

4. Determine the Options for the activity:

• Allow self assign makes the activity available at all times for users to complete without having it assigned.
• Allow recording as complete allows an Administrator (or Supervisor with rights to the Record Completed Activities application) to record that the activity was completed by a group of users. For example, if the activity contained a Powerpoint presentation that was viewed by a group of people at an in-person training session, a single Administrator or Supervisor could record that it was completed for all attendees at one time.
• Require validation upon completion requires an Administrator (or Supervisor with rights to the Validate Completed Activities application) to verify the information provided by the user is accurate before it is recorded in the users’ history.

5. Determine the Privacy settings:

• Edit the components in this activity allows administrators to restrict others from being able to manage the components that are currently in an activity. 
• Assign the activity allows the administrator to decide if others with access to this activity are able to assign it to users. 
• Run reports on the activity allows the administrator to determine if the data entered into the activity is reportable by anyone other than the creator. 
  
  Note: Selecting ALL options under "Custom" is equivalent to selecting "Default". We recommend that you keep the privacy settings as default. If you create custom privacy settings, it will restrict what other administrators or supervisors can do with the activity such as editing, assigning and reporting an activity.

6. Select the Tags that pertain to your activity. Tags act as filters on your reports. To add or remove tags from your site, click Manage Available Tags.

7. If you would like to upload a Certificate, check the box for 'Attach custom certificate completion'.

8. Click Save to save your activity, which will take you to the Activities Builder where you can begin adding Components to your activity.  We recommend using Reportable Components where you can, to assist you when running reports on your activity. 

Please see the following links for more information about Activities Builder:

Activities Builder Overview 

Assigning Activities

Adding a Resource to an Activity

Creating Categories for Activities

Reportable Components

Self Assigning Activities

Validating Completions 

Recording Completions

Delete Completions 

Modifying Activities

Request a File Component

Attach a Custom Certificate to an Activity