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Image Annotation
Updated onArticleImage annotation data panels receive student drawings on images that the instructor provides. This data collection type should only be used if students draw on images and should not be used if students are required to label an image.
They appear in Data Collection in the Experimentation tab and can be added to lessons through the Question Customization tool or the Custom Lesson Authoring tool.
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Order List
Updated onArticleOrder list questions are formative assessments and occur before Exploration content is presented. These questions should only contain terms and concepts that are presented in list format in the upcoming Exploration content pages.
They appear in Test Your Knowledge in the Exploration tab and can be added to lessons through the Question Customization tool or the Custom Lesson Authoring tool.
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Image Drag and Drop
Updated onArticleImage drag and drop questions are formative assessments and occur before Exploration content is presented. These questions should only contain labels/images that are presented in the upcoming Exploration content pages.
They appear in Test Your Knowledge in the Exploration tab and can be added to lessons through the Question Customization tool or the Custom Lesson Authoring tool.
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Cloze Drag and Drop
Updated onArticleCloze drag and drop questions are formative assessments and occur before Exploration content is presented. These questions should only contain fill-in-the-blank sentences with concepts and terms that are presented in the upcoming Exploration content pages.
They appear in Test Your Knowledge in the Exploration tab and can be added to lessons through the Question Customization tool or the Custom Lesson Authoring tool.
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Classification
Updated onArticleClassification questions are formative assessments and occur before Exploration content is presented. These questions should only contain phrases/categories that are presented in the upcoming Exploration content pages.
Classification questions classify items into different categories. They appear in Test Your Knowledge in the Exploration tab and can be added to lessons through the Question Customization tool or the Custom Lesson Authoring tool.
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What are the minimum technological requirements for accessing my SI course?
Updated onArticleScience Interactive courses are compatible with and can be accessed on Mac and Windows laptops and desktops (any version), tablets, and smart phones. Recommended browsers are Safari, Google Chrome, and Mozilla Firefox (make sure to have the latest versions). SI Cloud is not compatible with Internet Explorer or Edge.
Some Science Interactive lessons may require students to upload photos of your experiments to Cloud. Photos taken on a smartphone, tablet, or digital camera are sufficient for use in the lessons. Photos must be uploaded in JPG and PNG format. For more information on how to upload an image, see this article.
Some Science Interactive lessons may require students to upload a graph of their results. Graphs can be created using Microsoft Excel or any free graphing program available online. Students may also hand-draw graphs using graphing paper, and then take a photo to upload. Graphs must be uploaded in JPG and PNG format.
Supplemental information in your Science Interactive course may be provided as a PDF. PDFs can be downloaded and opened on any PDF reader (Adobe Acrobat, Foxit, Google Drive, etc.).
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Getting Started with Question Customization
Updated onArticleOur question customization tool allows instructors to add or remove questions throughout their lessons, as well as add new data collection tables.
Only courses that have Custom Lesson Authoring enabled are able to use this tool. If you have any questions about your course's status, contact your Account Representative.
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What is Question Customization?
Updated onArticleQuestion Customization is a new feature in SI Cloud that allows you as instructors to do the following:
- Write and add your own questions to our existing question sets anywhere in our lessons.
- Hide questions you don't want students to answer (no matter who authored them).
- Insert custom data collection in the Experimentation section, including photo uploads, data tables, and more.
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Was SI Cloud impacted by the recent Log4J vulnerability?
Updated onArticleSI Cloud does not use Log4J, so none of our systems could have been impacted.
Log4J is a Java utility; SI Cloud does not use Java, therefore this vulnerability did not affect us.
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Edit an Existing User's Information
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