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SoftChalk LessonBuilder is an authoring tool that helps create digital learning objects for e-learning. This will provide an overview of how to create a Sorting Activity.

A Sorting Activity allows a learner to organize or categorize information according to their understanding. It allows them to practice this for as long as he or she needs.

Start the software.  Go to the menu bar  and select Insert, Activity, and then Sorting.

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SoftChalk LessonBuilder is an authoring tool that helps create digital learning objects for e-learning.  This will provide an overview of how to create a “Seek a Word” activity.

A “Seek a Word” activity is a typical “word find” experience.  This is a light way of helping learners to memorize spelling and terminology.

Start up the SoftChalk LessonBuilder program.  Go to Insert, select Activity, and then Seek a Word.

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SoftChalk LessonBuilder is an authoring tool that helps create digital learning objects for e-learning. This will provide an overview of how to create an Ordering Activity, which is where learners will practice the order of steps in a process.

Once you have opened the software program, go to the menu bar and select Insert, then  Activity, and then Ordering.

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SoftChalk LessonBuilder is an authoring tool that helps create web-based digital learning objects for e-learning. This will provide an overview of how to create a labeling activity.

A labeling activity allows learners to drag and drop labels onto an image to label the various parts.

Open this software program. Click Insert, then select Activity and then Labeling.

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SoftChalk LessonBuilder is an authoring tool that helps create digital learning objects for e-learning.  This will provide an overview of how to create a “Hot Spot”.

A Hot Spot taps into spatial understandings by having a learner look at an image or a map and learn about different regions.

After you have started the SoftChalk LessonBuilder software, go to Insert -> Activity -> Hot Spot. 

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SoftChalk LessonBuilder is an authoring tool that helps create digital learning objects for e-learning. This article provides an overview of how to create a DragNDrop.

A “drag and drop” is an activity that tests a learner’s ability to match related items.

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