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	2: Re: Define in monitor question By: Neal Hirsig	In response to 1	08/30/09 12:44 PM	[ Reply \| Forward ]
Playing around with this further, it seems that there really is no reason to set “define in monitor” in the properties panel of an activity. It is possible to add content and instructions to an activity in the monitor panel regardless of check-marking the “define in monitor” or not. I just place a stop gate in the sequence to prevent the students from accessing the activity until I am ready to add the content to the particular activity. I guess this leaves me with the question: What does “define in monitor” mean? By default the stop, branching and grouping activities are all defined in the monitor and do not have this checkbox in the properties panel. What is the “define in monitor” checkbox refer to with all of the other activities (like notebook, noticeboard forum….)? Posted by Neal Hirsig

	4: Re: Re: Define in monitor question By: Ernie Ghiglione	In response to 2	08/30/09 03:13 PM	[ Reply \| Forward ]
> What does "define in monitor" mean? By default the stop, branching and grouping activities are all defined in the monitor and do not have this checkbox in the properties > panel. What is the “define in monitor” checkbox refer to with all of the other activities (like notebook, noticeboard forum….)? Define in monitor attempts to provide a solution to change content on the fly to ensure that all students doing the lesson get consistent content. Although you might be able to change the content after some students have passed a Q&A, this might be confusing if the teacher adds more questions to the activity after half of the students have finished the activity. While some might have got just the original questions, the rest would have either different questions or new questions all together. So "define in monitor" gives the teacher the option to stop the students before they enter the activity, so he/she can set up the appropriate content and then allow consistent content for all students. True, it is possible to do the same if you would put a stop point in front of the activity that you might modify. However, this stop point is visible by all students in the class and that might be a bit confusing as they might not know exactly why you are stopping them at that stage. But yes, a stop point before the activity pretty much does the same thing. Ernie Posted by Ernie Ghiglione

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