You can customize your Amplify Desmos Math lessons with the Copy and edit feature. Use the interactive features of the Activity Builder to modify your lessons to fit your teaching style and your students' needs.
Navigate to the lesson.
Click the three-dot menu to the right of the activity title.
Click Copy and edit.
This creates a copy of the activity and opens the copy for you to edit in the Activity Builder.
The Activity Builder has several components that you can use to edit your lessons.
Graph | Table | Sketch | Media | Note | Responses | Multiple Choice, Checkboxes, and Ordered Lists | Graphing Calculator | Card Sort | Polygraph | Polypad | Challenge Creator | Additional options
Graph
Graph components are the core element of most Amplify Desmos Math activities. Use them alone or combine them with other components like Note.
Table
The Table component allows students to explore connections between multiple representations—graph to table, table to equation, text to table, and more.
Sketch
Sketch components offer an easy way to gather informal student thinking. With three background options (blank, graph, and custom image), the possibilities are endless.
Media
Use the Media component to add images and video to your activity. Click Choose a file to upload, or drag-and-drop the media into the box.
You can add image descriptions and video captions to the media you upload. Image descriptions are an alt-text description of the image for people who can’t see the image.
This is helpful for people who use screen readers.
Note
Whether you’re calling attention to some feature of a graph or asking students to reflect on something they’ve just done, Note components can play a key role in an activity. Add text, math, or a combination of the two.
Responses
Use the Free Response component to collect student responses as text, image, or recorded audio.
Use the Math Response component to collect student responses in numbers, expressions, and equations.
Use both in combination with a graph, image, and/or note to drive class discussion.
Multiple Choice, Checkboxes, and Ordered lists
Multiple Choice, Checkboxes and Ordered Lists can be used to spark, capture, and discuss student thinking.
Graphing Calculator
The Graphing Calculator component gives students full access to the power of the Desmos Graphing Calculator. Use it to set up some initial equations for students to explore or leave it blank for students to create anything they like.
Graphing Calculator is a Fullscreen component. To use it, you must delete the existing components on the screen, or click the + icon to add a new screen with no components.
Card Sort
Card sort activities can generate rich discussions. The Card Sort tool allows you to create, deliver, and facilitate discussions around card sort activities.
Card Sort is a Fullscreen component. To use it, you must delete the existing components on the screen, or click the + icon to add a new screen with no components.
Polygraph
Polygraph is a partnered guessing game that helps boost language skills and vocabulary use. In each round, paired players take turns as the 'Picker,' who chooses a card, and the 'Guesser,' who asks yes/no questions to find the selected card.
Create your custom Polygraph by designing 16 unique cards. You must have 16 unique cards, or the Polygraph screen will not show to students.
Polygraph is a Fullscreen component. To use it, you must delete the existing components on the screen, or click the + icon to add a new screen with no components.
Make your custom Polygraph by entering an equation in the expression list or adding an image.
Between rounds, students answer questions that focus their attention on vocabulary and strategy. You can incorporate premade reflection questions, or create custom reflection questions for students.
You will be able to see all the rounds your students have played from the teacher dashboard. Click the game to see the details of the round.
Polypad
Use virtual manipulatives in your activities to explore brilliant mathematical ideas with students. Start with a blank canvas for students to experiment with or lay some tiles down to guide their experience.
Polypad is a Fullscreen component. To use it, you must delete the existing components on the screen, or click the + icon to add a new screen with no components.
Choose from different types of tiles: Geometry, Numbers, Fractions, Algebra, Probability and Data, and Games and Applications. Clicking on a type of tile will expand the options for that tile.
Challenge Creator
Add a Challenge Creator to your activities to give students the social and creative learning experience of making, solving, and sharing math problems with their peers. You can design the Challenge Creator using screens and Computation Layer (CL). The Computation Layer is a powerful tool that can increase interactivity in your activities. It can link different components together, personalizing your content and offering dynamic feedback to enhance learning experiences in your classroom.
Challenge Creator is a Fullscreen component. To use it, you must delete the existing components on the screen, or click the + icon to add a new screen with no components.
Additional options
Click on the title of the activity while editing to find additional options.
Radians/degrees toggle: Use this to change the default angle measurement for all calculations in an activity, including math inputs, tables, graphs, and Computation Layer.
Note that graph settings will not change if the activity settings do. If your activity is in degrees, but has a graph in radians, you’ll receive a warning.
Add a calculator (Grades 6–A1): Turn this on to add a Desmos Calculator on all screens for students to use while working in the activity. Choose between the four function, scientific, or graphing calculators.