Using a learning app in a lesson
Add a published learning app to a lesson, set it up for your class, and add it again with other settings for another class. Students work in the app, their progress is kept, and their submitted work reaches your results.
When to use it
A learning app is built outside Praktikal for a specific need, such as an investigation in which students predict, experiment and explain. Use one in a lesson when no standard question type does what your class needs.
You can add the apps you made yourself and the ones you have added to your materials. Building an app is covered in the guide Building a learning app with your own coding agent.
Adding the app and setting it up
Open the lesson in editing mode, use the + inside a module and choose the Learning apps tab. The tab is offered inside a module, not inside a worksheet.
Search for the app and click its card. It is added to the module as an item of its own.
Open the new item and switch on Edit. The app shows its own settings: in the water investigation, the title, the water in the tank and the amount used each day.
Fill them in and save them in the app.
For another class, add the same app again and give it different settings, for example a bigger tank. Each item you add keeps its own settings, so changing one does not change the other. If the app asks for a correct answer in its settings, students do not see it unless the presentation shows correct answers.
What students do
Students open the lesson in a presentation or an assignment and work in the app the way it was built. In the water investigation they predict how many days the water will last, water the garden one day at a time and watch the log grow.
The app saves where each student got to. If they close the page and come back later, they carry on from the same place. When they have finished, they submit their work in the app; what it asks for, such as a written explanation, depends on the app.
Checking the work
In the presentation, click Results on the app to see what each student submitted. Next to each answer is the app’s own assessment: App says: correct, App says: incorrect, a score, or No claim from the app. It is there for information only; you award the points yourself. The version label, such as Version 1, shows which version of the app the student answered in.
Tips
Set up each class’s copy before the lesson and open it once as a student would.
A written explanation always needs you to read it, even when the app checks a number. Plan time for it.
When the app’s author publishes a new version, your lessons switch to it automatically. Answers already given keep the version they were given in.
If the app shows as unavailable, its author has stopped sharing it or made it an app for its own page only.