Collections and the Study
How to enable the Study Dashboard for your users and configure quizzes in Collections to be added to a users available items
Collections deliver quizzes (and other content) to users at their own pace for a self directed style of learning and studying. Combining quizzes in collections with the Study page gives users a place to manage generate their own quizzes and manage all questions they have access to in one place.
By default any quiz in a collection a user has access to will show as available to add to their study, only quiz type collection items can be added to a users study. Disable add to study to prevent users adding specific quizzes.
Learn more about collection configurations and settings below, Zapier actions are available for auto adding items to study.
Study page
To enable the Study page go to Settings > User access > Students > Study and enable. The Study will pool all the eligible quizzes in collections a user has access to and allow students to add them into their study items via the available items tab.
Study overview - a snapshot of progress and the launchpad for generating Self-practice and Spaced learning quizzes
Study items - the quizzes currently in a user's study, removable at any time
Available items - eligible quizzes not yet added, ready to pull in
Only items added via Study items / Available items count towards Spaced learning - just being in an accessible collection isn't enough on its own.
Spaced learning
If users want more from their study they can enable Spaced learning, items in your spaced learning contribute towards different mastery levels.
Spaced learning is a system developed by Synap to help individuals learn information and recall it in the long term. It is based on the neurological principle of Spaced Repetition. Spaced Learning personalises learning based on Spaced Repetition.
Spaced learning Quizzes are regenerated when there are enough questions which need answering to ensure retention of knowledge at that point. This can vary depending on the number of questions in your Study but is usually every couple of days. Unlike Self-practice quizzes you cannot manually add questions to the Spaced Learning quizzes. They are auto-populated based on which questions you are weakest/strongest on. Users can customise how many questions they get each day through the cog on the Spaced learning settings box.
⚫️ Unseen = questions you have never seen before, these will appear the most often in your spaced learning if they are active in your study
🔴 Novice = questions you've answered before, but you haven't been answering them correctly or at big enough intervals to show you've progressed on them. You will see these very frequently in your spaced learning quizzes
🟡 Intermediate = questions you've answered correctly a few times now, you're starting to answer them correctly in increasingly bigger time intervals too. You'll see these fairly often in your spaced learning quizzes
🟢 Advanced = questions you've shown you answer correctly most the time, you're answering them correctly between reasonably larger periods of time. You'll not see these very often in your spaced learning
🔵 Mastered = questions you've demonstrated you can always answer correctly. You'll no longer see these in your spaced learning quizzes
Questions may move down the mastery levels as well as up if:
Users are consistently answering them wrong
Users have had a large break from studying
Users requested a reset
Self-practice
Self-practice quizzes are generated by users as and when they want to take them - they draw from the items in a user's study, but let students choose their own length, mastery level and, if enabled, tag facets like Subject, Topic or Subtopic to zero in on one area rather than the whole study.
Tag filtering here only works well if your questions are consistently tagged with facets, and needs turning on at the portal level - see the guide below for how to set up facets and tags as well as configuring the portal to allow tag selection in self practice attempts.
Generate collection attempts
Collections can be configured to allow users with access to them to generate their own attempts based on tag breakdown and length on individual quizzes are all quizzes in a given collection. From a collection configure page use the tag selection display mode and other configs around results to set up your users collections.
Users then can generate an attempt based on all questions in a collection and configure it with the difficulty levels and tags they want.
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