Skills Tutor's Advanced Assignment Options include an option called Students can choose the order they take activities. We have discovered that this option does just a bit more than allow students to choose the order of the assignment or not allow them to choose the order. In practice, when the option is UNCHECKED students have only the number of times specified to take the before they are sent on to the next assignment. Once they have done this lesson the number of times specified, they cannot take the lesson again until they have completed EVERY lesson in the assignment. Once they are done with all of the lessons in the assignment, then the student is free to go back and repeat any lesson in the assignment.
One of the implications of this setting is that if the assignment is very long, the student will not have the option of using any of the lessons for review for a long time. If the assignment is fairly short, then they will be able to go through the assignment and then, once they have done all of the components of that assignment, they can repeat any of the lessons in that assignment.
Please let us know if this is your experience with this option. We were a little surprised.
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