Teacher notes on using FFL online interactive tutorials
Introduction
This guide is intended for teachers who plan to use the online interactive
tutorials.
The interactive tutorials have been designed to engage students and to
enhance their learning.
Students will require a low level of technical knowledge in order to
complete the tutorials. The aim is to build and assess student knowledge
of food and nutrition rather than their ability to use ICT.
Layout of the interactive tutorial
The interactive tutorials have been designed to allow self paced,
differentiated learning to take place.
The student must first enter their name. The next stage is a short quiz of five
questions to assess the prior knowledge of the learning objectives. After
completing the quiz, the student is automatically guided to one of the
three tiered tutorials. The student will not be aware of their quiz results until
the very end of the tutorial.
The next stage in the tutorial is a series of information screens integrated
with interactive activities to consolidate and test student knowledge.
Feedback is immediately provided on each of the activities via a
comment box. The comment box provides the student with a score, the
option of repeating the activity or moving onto the next screen.
Student progress cannot be saved during the activity; therefore the
student must either start again next lesson or complete the activity and
print the report in the one session. It is estimated that a tutorial takes
approximately 20 minutes to complete.
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The final report cannot be saved, but can be viewed online or printed. By
entering the student’s name at the beginning of the tutorial, each report
printed will be personalised.
The results of the quiz, the number of interactive activity attempts and the
score for each activity will be provided.
Further descriptions of the interactive activities found within the tutorials
are found below.
Menu page
The menu page allows the student to choose which area he or she will
investigate. This allows the student to select their own route through the
tutorial. In order to complete the tutorial, the student must click on the
final quiz section after each area has been investigated.
Drag and drop
The student will need to identify and match one set of items with another
into pairs. Items can be laid out in rows or can be positioned around an
image. Sometimes decoy options, are provided where the picture or word
is an incorrect answer.
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Fill in the gap
The student will be required to read a piece of text. Within the text there
will be gaps in a word, sentence or paragraph, for the student to click on.
Once the student clicks on the gap, there will be either a predetermined
bank of words from which to select, or an area to type the missing word/s.
Ordering
The student will be presented with a series of either pictures or words out
of sequence. The student will need to click and drag each picture/word
into the correct order.
Linking lines
Two sets of items will be presented to the student. The first set must be
linked with an item from the second set using a connecting line. Items will
have images or text and can be laid out in simple rows or around an
image.
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Question
The question page requires the student to complete a multiple choice
question. There can sometimes be more than one correct answer. The
student must identify the correct number of answers before clicking the
‘Next’ button.
Feedback
Immediate feedback is provided after each interactive activity via a
comment box, which provides a score and the option to try the activity
again.
The final report provides a summary of how many attempts were made on
each activity. Remember, the final report cannot be saved. It must be
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printed, otherwise the information will be lost. It is important the student
enters their name to ensure each report is identifiable. The student’s
names or data is only recorded for the final report. Once the student exits
the tutorial, all the data will be lost.
How to use the interactive tutorials
There are many different ways to make use of this resource. The teacher
may choose to:
 integrate the tutorials into the scheme of work in classroom lesson;
 use these on an ad-hoc basis for revision;
 use the tutorials for relief or cover lessons;
 assign the tutorials for homework, where the student brings the
printed final report in from home;
 support students who miss lessons or class time.
All tutorial content is in pilot format. If you have any comments, please
send these to Georgine Leung on g.leung@nutrition.org.uk.
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