Interactive content

Skillsail modules combine three kinds of learning content: native slides for presentation, interactive activities for unscored practice, and graded questions for assessment. All three use the same responsive learner player in preview, public shares, and exports.

Choose the right format

• Use a native slide when learners should read, watch, or inspect information.
• Use an interactive activity when learners should explore, sort, manipulate, decide, or rehearse without affecting their score.
• Use a graded question when an answer must count toward the passing score, pass or fail status, resume state, or LMS reporting.

If you ask for a quiz, test, assessment, knowledge check, graded exercise, or question, Skillsail uses the graded question path unless you explicitly request unscored practice.

Try the components

The gallery below uses the same learner components as a real module. Select an example and interact with it directly; practice answers stay inside the example and do not affect anything in your account.

22 purpose-built interactive activities

Practice and decisions

• Scenario — Present choices and consequences as a simple decision card or as a dialogue with managed backgrounds and character portraits.
• Matching pairs — Match each prompt to one corresponding answer.
• Sequence builder — Put steps or events into the correct order.
• Sorting task — Classify several items into shared categories by dragging or selecting them.
• Multiple-choice practice — Choose one answer and receive immediate, unscored feedback.
• Multiple-response practice — Select every correct answer and receive immediate, unscored feedback.
• Fill-in-the-blank practice — Enter a short response and compare it with accepted answers, without scoring the module.
• Spatial drag-and-drop — Place items onto positioned regions of a managed diagram or photograph, with an equivalent selection-based control.
• Guided reflection — Respond to private reflection prompts; responses are not submitted, saved, scored, or reported.
• Checklist — Rehearse a task or verify that every action was considered.

Exploration and explanation

• Process stepper — Walk through a procedure one step at a time.
• Timeline — Explore ordered milestones or events.
• Flashcards — Flip one card or move through a deck for recall practice.
• Guided screenshot simulation — Practice a sequence of actions on a managed screenshot.
• Labeled graphic — Select hotspots on a managed image to reveal explanations.
• Before-and-after comparison — Drag a divider to compare two managed images.

Data and resources

• Bar chart — Compare labelled numeric values in an accessible chart and data summary.
• Pie chart — Show parts of a whole with accessible labels and values.
• Line graph — Explain change over time with labelled points and an accessible summary.
• Navigation button stack — Offer a clear set of labelled routes or supporting links.
• Attachment download — Package a managed PDF, Word, Excel, or PowerPoint file for learners, or link deliberately to an external HTTPS resource.
• Web embed — Show allowed web content in a sandboxed frame when the external site supports embedding.

Accordion, tabs, cards, grids, stacks, image carousels, and quotation carousels are also available for advanced compositions. Use image or quotation carousels only when moving through one intentional sequence is part of the experience; an ordinary image gallery or separate quotation slides are usually better for presentation alone.

All activity choices and responses are session-local and unscored. They do not change the quiz score, passing status, or LMS question reporting. Multiple-choice practice, multiple-response practice, fill-in-the-blank practice, and matching pairs have graded question equivalents. Sequence builders, sorting tasks, and spatial drag-and-drop do not currently have scored equivalents.

6 native slide designs

Native slide designs present information without creating a learner answer:

• Statement — Emphasize one concise message.
• Note — Present a semantic callout such as a tip, warning, or reminder.
• Quote — Show attributed words and an optional source.
• Hero — Open a section with a strong title and short supporting copy.
• Two column — Compare or contrast two bodies of text.
• Image overlay — Place readable text over one managed slide image.

An ordinary slide can also combine up to four managed images in stacked, split, or gallery layouts. Learners can open each image in a larger view. That remains presentation content, not an interactive activity.

8 graded question formats

Every graded format counts toward the module's passing score:

• Multiple choice — Choose one correct text answer.
• Pick a side — Choose between two opposing options.
• Image choice — Choose the correct image option.
• Multiple response — Select every correct option.
• Fill in the blank — Enter one short answer that is checked against accepted responses.
• Cloze — Complete several blanks inside a passage.
• Matching — Match each prompt to the correct response.
• Image hotspot — Select one or more correct regions on a managed image, either on the image or through the equivalent keyboard-friendly choice list.

All eight formats use the same scoring, passing threshold, retake, feedback, and resume flow. The existing LMS adapters report their aggregate score. For typed fill-in-the-blank and cloze questions, resume data stores the graded result rather than the learner's entered text.

Prompt examples

Describe what learners should do and whether the result should be graded. For example:

• “Create a native hero slide that opens the lockout procedure section.”
• “Create an unscored process stepper for the five lockout steps.”
• “Build a flashcard deck for the main kite-surfing kite types.”
• “Create a private guided reflection about responding to safety concerns.”
• “Use my uploaded machine photo for a labelled graphic that explains each safety control.”
• “Let learners place safety equipment onto the correct areas of my uploaded workstation image. Keep it unscored.”
• “Add a graded multiple-response question about phishing warning signs.”
• “Create a graded hotspot question on my uploaded inspection photo and mark the two unsafe regions.”
• “Package my uploaded inspection checklist as a learner download.”

For managed visual activities, visual questions, and package-local downloads, provide or upload the media and describe how it should be used. Skillsail keeps the media reference stable across translations and includes the file in supported module packages.

Preview, translation, and export

The components use the shared player in editor preview, public modules, standalone HTML5, SCORM 1.2, SCORM 2004, xAPI, and cmi5 packages. Learner-facing text follows the module's translation workflow. Managed activity images, question images, captions, transcripts, and learner downloads travel with packaged exports.

External HTTPS downloads and web embeds still require network access. An external site can also block embedding through its own security policy.

Good practices

• Keep each slide, activity, or question focused on one learning goal.
• State explicitly whether practice should be graded or unscored.
• Prefer a native slide for presentation-only content.
• Use a graded question whenever the answer must affect completion or reporting.
• Ask for a simple first version, then refine wording, media, or feedback.