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Example Sprint 3: Activities

Rise intensives often ask the learner to do something beyond reading the page and watching videos. These are often contained within ‘actionboxes’ that emphasise the particular part of the text. There are three categories of actionboxes:

Highlights and Emphasis

These actionboxes simply emphasise or restate important information.

Note boxes like this one are a good way to show that a piece of information is particularly useful or worth remembering. The test in these should not be bold or italic, unless it’s emphasising something.

OPTIONAL

The most important information will be in bold in boxes like this one. The text should be bold.

OPTIONAL

Cross-References

These boxes send learners elsewhere, to things to read or explore.

Author (Year), Source

Readings should direct to external sources, and the title itself should be the hyperlink in the title. In general, these readings should be open-source rather than behind any kind of paywall (including the Man Met library site), although in some cases these sources might be included as an optional extra. If a reading is optional it will have the ‘optional’ label attached to it (see right).

OPTIONAL

This might send the learner to something other than a reading or a video; perhaps a website or a news story. The same formatting applies.

OPTIONAL

N.B. This category also includes ‘Watch’ actionboxes which we covered in Sprint 2.

Things to Do

Finally, these boxes highlight something for learners to do, often outside of the intensive itself.

These boxes ask the learner to stop and think or make notes about a topic.

This might be about connecting to existing knowledge, or thinking about how the intensive connects to the learners own attitudes or ideas. Often it will involve making notes, or writing a short response.

OPTIONAL

These boxes ask the learner to do something with the topic they’re covering.

This might be applying some theory to a case study, or actually going through the process they’ve just learned for themselves.

OPTIONAL

These boxes ask the learner to collaborate with others.

This is the rarest type of box as intensives are still largely self-contained self-study experiences, but these sometimes come up if there is an opportunity to work with others. Sometimes this might involve sharing their thoughts online via social media. If there are any links to forums within these, they will need to be checked.

OPTIONAL

You may find that there are instructions within an intensive that aren’t placed in one of these boxes. In these cases:

  • Check to see if it would fit into one of these boxes, and if it would then suggest that it is edited.
  • If not, double-check for coherence and styling – is the instruction clear, and is it also clearly demarcated from the rest of the text so it is clear what learners have to do?