Live Activity Overview

With Live Activity, you can follow your pupils' calculations and answers as they work through an assignment together. We recommend projecting Live Activity on the classroom screen so everyone can follow along, discuss strategies and work towards a common goal.

1. Open the assignment from the Assignments tab, just as you would to see the heatmap.

2. In the top-right corner, switch from Teacher view to Classroom view.

3. Classroom view is made for the big screen: pupil names are anonymised and the lesson is split into three steps – 1. Launch, 2. Heatmap and 3. Wrap-up. From here you can also set a timer or click STOP SOLVING.

4. Click ENTER LIVE ACTIVITY to start.

At the top of the screen you will see a progress bar for the whole class, with milestones at 10%, 25%, 40%, 60%, 80% and 100%. The Good calculations counter shows a running total of clear, well-presented calculations – a handy way to celebrate progress together.

Pupils' calculations appear live on the screen as they submit answers, together with encouraging messages from Lava. Seeing each other's work encourages pupils to show their thinking and sparks discussions about different strategies.

Click the anonymise icon (hat and glasses) in the top-right corner to hide or show pupil names on the calculations.

The icons in the top-right corner also let you open the Weekly Score (trophy), freeze pupil screens (snowflake) and open the settings menu (cog).

Click the cog to open the settings menu. From here you can:

· Pace pupils – choose which problems pupils can access, to keep the class together.

· Pupil attendance – deselect pupils who are absent so that the rest of the class can still reach 100% on the progress bar. The list resets automatically the next day.

· Sound – turn the celebration sound on or off.

· Common error notifications – turn notifications about common mistakes on or off.

· Remove solutions – click the ❌ on any solution you would like to hide from the screen. Once removed, a solution will not reappear, even if you re-enter the assignment.

The problem numbers are shown along the bottom of the screen. A small red dot next to a number means that several pupils have made the same mistake.

Click the problem number to see the problem, the common error and the pupils' incorrect solutions. Click START DISCUSSION to work through the mistake together – a great way to turn errors into learning opportunities.

Click EXIT LIVE ACTIVITY in the bottom-left corner to return to Classroom view, and switch back to Teacher view to see the full heatmap with pupil names.

Let us know via chat what is working well and what could be better. Your input helps us build an even better tool!
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