Getting Started with Materia

Materia is a platform and ecosystem for interactive study tools and games called widgets. This page is a quick-reference guide to help you learn more about Materia as a student.

Where do I find widgets?

Your instructor may choose to include Materia widgets in your course in a variety of places: they can be embedded as assignments, as module items, or directly in page content. Materia widgets are designed to help demonstrate course concepts in an engaging, interactive way, or help reinforce prior learning as supplemental material.

Playing Widgets

Depending on how your instructor embedded their Materia widgets, you may be prompted to login to Materia beforehand. Many widgets are embedded in a way that lets Materia and your LMS communicate with one another; in these circumstances, the widget will load immediately already knowing who you are!

Viewing Your Scores

At any time, you can review your prior play history in Materia by logging in and visiting your Profile page. Your Profile provides a chronological history of all of your widget play sessions, and clicking a completed play session lets you review the score screen for that attempt.

Making Your Own Widgets

Students can create their own widgets too! You use Materia widgets as study material, practice, or to share with your friends. Your instructor may choose to task you with authoring a widget as part of a discussion activity or supplemental learning.

Keep in mind, even if your widgets collects scores, you will not be able to see who played your widget. Student-authored widgets are restricted to guest access, which means the data they collect is anonymous.