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Assigning Activities

Create recurring goals, assign specific passages, or start a classroom competition—all from the Activities tab. 📚

ReadTheory adapts to each student’s level automatically, but the Activities feature lets you take control by setting goals, assigning passages, or launching competitions to boost engagement and structure learning. 

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Recurring Weekly Activities

Use Recurring Activities to create ongoing reading routines that refresh automatically each week.

How to Create a Recurring Activity:

  1. Go to the Activities tab activities-1
  2. Click Create New Activity create new activity
  3.  Select Recurring Weekly Activityselect activity weekly recurring
  4. Click Proceed, then choose your class or specific students
    select class or students
  5. Click Proceed again
  6. Adjust your settings (see below), name your activity, and select Finish.customize assignment

Settings:

  • Free users: 5 quizzes per week (Monday–Sunday, EST). Settings are fixed.

  • Premium users:

    • Choose the number of quizzes

    • Set a custom due date range

    • Customize rules: Must Complete or Must Pass

When students log in, they’ll see a pop-up:

“You were assigned a new activity” with options to Start Now or Do Later.

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If they choose Do Later, they can find it under My Progress → Start Activity.

📽️ Check out our quick tutorial

 

💡 Tip: To cancel a recurring activity, go to the Activities tab, click the three dots next to the activity, and select Cancel.

Assigning a Specific Passage (Premium Only)

Want all students working on the same text? Here's how:

Steps:

  1. Go to the Activities tab activities-1

  2. Click Create New Activity create new activity
  3.  Select Assign a Specific Passageselect activity assign specific passage
  4. Click Proceed, then choose your class or specific students select class or students

  5. Browse through the available passages. You can search by title, reading level, or tags. Select Proceed. select passage

  6. Set start and end dates. You can also select if you want to have written responses at the end of the selected passage. Select Proceed.select start date

  7. Name your activity and click Finish

Students will see the activity in their My Progress tab.

Starting a Classroom Competition (Premium Only)

Motivate students with a fun Knowledge Point challenge:

Steps:

  1. Go to Activities activities-1

  2. Select Create New Activity create new activity

  3. Choose Start a Competitionstart competition

  4. Select which students or class you want to host the competition for select class or students

  5. Set a date rangeselect date range

  6. Then, name the competition name your competiton

  7. Click Finish

Students join through their My Progress tab. A live leaderboard appears on your Activities dashboard.

leaderboard

 

👑 Whoever earns the most Knowledge Points during the competition wins!

Retake Pre-Test Assessment (Premium Only)

Have students retake the pretest, without erasing their quiz history!

Steps:

  1. Go to the Activities tab activities-1
  2. Click Create New Activity create new activity
  3. Select Retake Pre-Test Assessment retake assessment
  4. Click Proceed, then choose your class or specific students select class or students
  5. Click Finish reset progress warning
The selected student(s) will be prompted to retake the pretest the next time they log in. Their existing quiz history and progress will not be reset—only their original pretest score will be replaced.

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