Universal Review Activities

Time:
This exercise will take about 15 minutes to complete. In total, allowing for discussion, we recommend allowing 30 minutes for completion.

Aims:
• To review knowledge, share feedback or quiz participants.
• To assess current awareness of a situation or challenge.

Group Size:
This module can be used with groups of up to 24 participants.

Useful For:
Any situation where you want to inject some fun and humour whilst testing your participants’ knowledge or awareness.

You'll Need:
• To pre-prepare a series of questions, each with multiple answers.

Notes:
Developed to share customer feedback with our team, this is also a great activity to use in any situation where you want to run a quiz where questions have more than one answer. For example, you could use it to test participants’ knowledge of the main features of a product or service, or to remind teams of their successes.

Remote/Virtual Delivery:
There is a Remote Delivery version of this module available in Trainers’ Library called Let's See if it's There.

Time:
This exercise will take about 25 minutes to complete. In total, allowing for discussion, we recommend allowing 30 minutes for completion.

Aims:
• To articulate what participants have learnt and what the subject means to them now.

Group Size:
This module is suitable for use with groups of up to 20 participants.

You'll Need:
• Flipchart paper, colourful pens and coloured stickers or shapes.

Notes:
As a variation, you can ask your participants to create a collage, instead of a drawing. If you choose this option you will also need a collection of old magazines, postcards, birthday cards etc., scissors and glue.

Time:
This exercise will take about 15 minutes to complete. In total, allowing for discussion, we recommend allowing 20 minutes for completion.

Aims:
• To remind participants of their key learning points and action points from the course or workshop.

Group Size:
This module is suitable for use with groups of almost any size.

You'll Need:
• A4 sheets of paper in various colours.
• Glue sticks.
• Fine black marker pens.
• One A4 envelope.

Time:
This exercise will take about 10 minutes to complete. In total, allowing for discussion, we recommend allowing 25 minutes for completion.

Aims:
• To creatively summarise their key learning points from the course or workshop.

Group Size:
This module can be used with groups of almost any size.

You'll Need:
• Nothing other than the materials provided.

Time:
This exercise will take about 10 minutes to complete. In total, allowing for discussion, we recommend allowing 15 minutes for completion.

Aims:
• To remind participants of key learning points from the training and/or their action points.

Group Size:
This module is suitable for use with groups of almost any size.

You'll Need:
• A selection of picture postcards, one postcard per participant, and a few spare ones. (Select postcards with a variety of images: Animals, countryside, coastal scenes, historic buildings, modes of transport, etc.)

Notes:
Thank you to Barbara Buffton for suggesting this exercise.

Time:
This exercise will take about 10 minutes to complete. In total, allowing for discussion, we recommend allowing 15 minutes for completion.

Aims:
• For participants to feel confident that they can successfully implement what they have learnt.

Group Size:
This module can be used with groups of almost any size.

Useful For:
Staff at all levels.

You'll Need:
• 2 cardboard stars or star shaped post it notes for each participant.
• Blu tack will also be needed if you use the cardboard stars.

Notes:
The perfect time to use this exercise is just before participants make final adjustments to their action plans.

Time:
This exercise will take about 10 minutes to complete. In total, allowing for discussion, we recommend allowing 15 minutes to complete this review.

Aims:
• To encourage participants to review the learning and remind themselves of key learning points or action points from the course or workshop.

Group Sizes:
This module is suitable for use with groups of up to about 20 participants.

You'll Need:
• A selection of sweets with various coloured wrappers – enough sweets for each person to take at least two. (Avoid using nut-based sweets due to the risk of allergy.)