CLIO Activity Types
Overview
CLIO Activities are created through easily customizable activity templates, called Activity Types. You can make your own, or utilize the ones that are provided. The CLIO web application suite comes pre-installed with seventeen Activity Types that are designed specifically for use in an informal education or exhibit context.
They range in complexity and customization options. There are simple interactive activities with very little customization, as well as more complex activities that can be extensively customized to assist in the creation of a narrative. Simple interactive games like quizzes, flashcards, and tile matching are included for younger audiences, while other activities like timelines enable older audiences to have a more in-depth informational experience.
Media
Media Activity Types are designed to heavily rely on media and the contextualization surrounding it. These types of activities are great for using collections media and re-using media that you've already created for in-person exhibits.
3D Render
This activity type allows the user to interact with a digital three-dimensional object.
Annotated Image
This activity type can provide additional context to an image through the inclusion of ‘Look Closer’ buttons. Each ‘Look Closer’ button can display open to display rich text, an image gallery, or a video.
Collections Objects
This activity type displays a list of objects, such as collections artifacts, that opens a full-screen gallery of images of that object with captions. This activity is designed to draw connections between a museum’s “home” collections and the objects on display in outreach programming.
Image Gallery
A collection of images can be combined into a gallery that users can look through, with brief descriptions for each image.
Rich Text with Narration
This activity displays rich text with an optional voiceover.
Slideshow
This activity allows users to navigate through a slideshow, with optional “basement” slides that exist below the primary slide.
Video Playback
This activity plays an MP4 video. It can be configured to disable the audio or the control bar.
Interaction
Interaction Activity Types focus primarily on the interaction experience the user has with an activity. These activities work well to reinforce concepts taught through physical exhibits or live facilitation.
Card Match
This activity type is designed to draw connections between two sets of objects, images, or ideas by trying to match cards.
Flash Cards
This activity displays topic cards that can be flipped to view a brief description, or opened to look at a longer rich text description.
Image Comparison
This activity can be used to compare, contrast or overlay one image over another, allowing a user to interactively decide how much of each image they would like to see. You can also add ‘Look Closer’ buttons to highlight specific areas of the image.
Media Dichotomous Key
This activity type presents a gallery of images to the user and a series of questions. Using the images, they will answer to the best of their ability and, when there have been enough questions asked to reach a conclusion, they will be presented with their answer versus the correct answer based on their responses.
Pathfinder
This activity type is a visual activity that uses a series of multiple choice questions to chart a path from an origin to a destination. Each question’s options can have additional information that is used to provide context to the choice and help shape their answer. As the user progresses, they can view the correct answer from the previous questions to help build connections.
Tile Match
This activity is designed to draw connections between two sets of objects, images, or ideas. Each set contains four cards that users can try to match, with configurable correct and incorrect responses.
Timeline
This activity creates an ordered timeline that users can navigate through, date by date.
True or False Quiz
This activity type can be customized to prompt users to select from a binary set of choices with correct and incorrect responses.
Visual Thinking
This inquiry-based learning activity can be used to highlight a collection of images and provide prompts for users to learn more about what they find most interesting.
Exhibit
Exhibit Activity Types combine multiple Activities into one and works well to contextualize Activities together.
List
This Exhibit will display the included Activities as scrollable list.
