Controlling students’ flow with gates
Gates are a great way to control the students flow and how they progress through a LAMS lesson. Gates are represented by a stop sign in the design above.
There are a five different types of gates:
- Permission gates: you as teacher, can decide selectively which and when students can continue to the next activity
- Condition gates: you can set up a condition and only if the students meet the condition, they can go through the gate (ie: if a student attains 8 out of 10 in the previous test, she’s allow to continue)
- Synchronise gates: the gate only opens when all the students have reached it -allowing all the students to begin the next activity at the exact same time.
- Schedule gates: you can set times to allow students to continue. These gates are very flexible: as you can either set an absolute time (ie: Monday 10AM) or relative time(ie: 1 hour after the student finished the previous activity) for student
- Password gates: only students that entered the correct password can proceed.
All of these different gates give you very flexible control over student progression and lesson flow.
Using Permission gates, for instance, you can either selectively open the gate to specific students or open the gate for all students at once.
New feature
Up until very recently, once a gate was opened, there was no way to close it.
This was a problem when gates were opened accidentally or you wanted to restrict new students to continue with the lesson.
Now all gates can be closed once they are open at any time. Just use the “Close gate” button so the gate returns to its previous closed state.
