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# Activity Guide

## What is an Activity Guide?

Use an Activity Guide if you want to provide your users with instructions on how to complete specific interactions, including: dragging & dropping, selecting & matching, or swiping.

## Quick steps: how to create & edit an Activity Guide

1. **Open Authoring.** Create or open a [Learning Story](/authoring-docs/authoring/content-types/learning-story.md), [Assessment](/authoring-docs/authoring/content-types/assessment.md) or [Survey](/authoring-docs/authoring/content-types/survey.md) [content type](/authoring-docs/authoring/content-types.md).
2. **Add or open a Story, Assessment or Survey.** Open the Editor.
3. **Add an Activity Guide and place it directly in front of a** [**Drag & Drop**](/authoring-docs/content-pages/content-page-library/drag-+-drop.md)**,** [**Memory Game**](/authoring-docs/content-pages/content-page-library/memory-game.md) **or** [**Swipe Card**](/authoring-docs/content-pages/content-page-library/swipe-card.md) **page.** Select the + icon and choose Activity Guide from the Add Page options. 
4. **Update the Activity Guide page to edit.** Select the page to view the [Page Options](/authoring-docs/content-pages/story-and-page-settings.md#what-are-the-page-options), and select Update to add and edit text. 
5. **Choose a Guide Type and customise.** You can customise the colour, heading and text instructions (optional). 

## Activity Guide Type, Options & Custom Text

### Guide Type & Options

**Guide Type**\
Select the Guide Type you would like to add:

* Dragging & Placing Guide, 
* Selecting & Matching Guide, or 
* Swiping Guide.

**Highlight Colour**\
The guides are presented in grayscale and will make use of one highlight colour. Select an alternative if you do not wish to use the theme default.

### Custom Text (Optional)

**If you do not add custom text, the default Guide Activity instructions will be used.**

**Heading**\
Each guide is presented with custom text (to see this text, simply save the page).

**Guide Text**\
If you wish to write your own copy, you can enter a heading and some text in the spaces provided.


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