Social-inspired stream for your course
Activity Feed is a homepage widget that can be used to create a central place for users to engage and stay up-to-date on what’s happening in their course. Activity feed is similar to announcements, but you can easily add assignments and content to your posts.
How to add an activity feed
To add an activity feed to your course: Click the ellipsis on the bottom right hand corner of your course site and choose the activity page homepage. (Learn more)
Why use the activity feed?
- Communicate to students about the week’s content all in one place / in one place.
- Social-media style activity feeds are often familiar to students which makes them easy to use and navigate.
- Useful way to share information dynamically (rather than posting it all ahead of time).
- A social media-style communication tool that can encourage communication and collaboration.
- Engage students by asking students to comment on your post with their biggest takeaway or a question they have going into class.