After the activity
From Concept to Graded Activity
You just played One More Hour. Before AI built anything, three decisions shaped it. Make the same three decisions for a concept in your own course, and you will have a brief that is specific enough to hand to AI.
No AI yet. Your answers save in this browser as you type.
See how One More Hour answered the three decisions
- 1. The concept
- Telling fall things from summer things. Activity type: sort and classify, with a decode step and a reveal step.
- 2. Success
- A student who gets it can sort every item into the right season, and cannot win by clicking at random because wrong choices cost points.
- 3. Context
- Plays alone online or as a group in class. Graded in the LMS: 100 minus 5 for each wrong attempt, passed at 70 or higher. Packaged as SCORM so the score reaches the gradebook.
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Decision 1
What concept do students keep missing?
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Decision 2
What can a student who gets it do?
Write success as an action: sort, decide, explain, predict. That action is what the activity must require.
Break it down into steps
| Step | What the student does | What counts as correct | Points or completion |
|---|
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Decision 3
Where does it live, and what does it count for?
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Take it to AI
Your brief is now a prompt
These two prompts update as you type. Paste the first into Claude (or your AI tool). Read the draft as a student, ask for one change, then use the second to package it.
1. Build the activity
2. Package for my LMS
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Before you go live
Four tips
- Prompt for accessibility. Ask for WCAG 2.1 AA from the start. Retrofitting accessibility is much harder than building it in.
- Test and revise. The first output is a draft. Play it as a student, check what reaches the gradebook, then have a real student try it. Plan at least one revision round.
- Control your SCORM ending. Tell the AI to hold on the final screen instead of rolling to a completion slide. Students stay in the activity until they are ready to exit.
- Balance multiple choice answers. On multiple choice questions, tell the AI to make the answer choices similar in length so the longest answer is not always the correct one, and to shuffle the correct answer across all of the letter choices (A, B, C and D).
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