Colons_ collaborative tasks

Colons: collaborative tasks

Now that you know the rules for using colons, collaborate with a classmate to practise using colons in sentences.

Use Notepad to compose five sentences. Make sure that four of the five sentences need to have a colon added and one of the sentences does not. Notepad is useful for this as it does not have a spelling or grammar checker.

  1. Share your Notepad file with your classmate via email, USB drive or simply showing them your screen.

  2. Ask your classmate to add colons to the sentences where they are needed. When they have completed this, check their work and give them a score out of five.

  1. Have a look at Task 4 in this Captivate tutorial to learn how to create Captivate quizzes.

  2. When you have done this, open Captivate and select Blank project > set the Width to 980 and Height to 490 (to fit the laptop screen) > OK.

  3. Choose Quiz menu > Question Slide > Short answer > Graded Question.

  4. The New short answer question dialogue box will appear. Change the following:

    1. In the Name section, type Rewrite the sentence adding a colon in the correct place.

    2. In the Question section, type a sentence that needs to have a colon added to it.

    3. Change Points to 1.

    4. In the Acceptable Answer section, type the sentence with the colon in it and then click OK.

  5. You can edit the font, size and colour of your slide once the question slide has been created.

  6. Repeat steps 3 to 5 to create at least five quiz questions.

  7. When you have completed the questions, click on Preview and check your quiz. When you are happy with it, click on Publish.

  8. Share you published quiz with your classmates. How did they go?