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Complete Activities

Practice what you learn with MindTap activities. Each answer to a question is called an attempt. Some activities give you multiple attempts to answer correctly.

  1. Click an activity to open it.
  2. If a password is required, enter the password and click Launch Assignment.
  3. If the Activity Overview page displays, review the activity settings and grading policies, then click Start.

    This is not available in all MindTap classes.

  4. Follow the instructions and answer each question.
  5. Click Submit.

    If your activity does not have a Submit button, it will be automatically submitted.

    Note

    Most activities are automatically submitted if they are in progress when the due date passes, but some are not. Be sure to submit your activity to receive a grade.

Completed activities display your score.

Grading

  • Manual grading – Some activities, like essays, short answers, and audio recordings, are manually graded by your instructor. Manually graded activities display manually graded.
  • Automatic grading – Some activities, like multiple choice, matching, and true or false, are automatically graded after each answer attempt.

Scoring

  • Credit only – Some activity scores are for credit only. To receive credit for the activity, you must complete all sections and score 100% on each question.
  • In-progress – Some activities with multi-part answers display scoring results as you progress through each part.