# Make your first activity, from a blank page to a link

> Create an activity, add a quiz to it, try it, publish it and copy its link.

This walk-through takes you from nothing to a link your students can open. It takes about ten minutes.

1. On the **Dashboard**, select **New activity**. A panel opens on the right.
2. Type a **Title**. This is what students see at the top of the activity. Leave **Folder** as it is and **Start from** on **Blank**, then select **Create**. The new activity is a draft: students cannot open it until you publish.
3. On **My activities**, select the activity's title to open it, then the **Activity** tab.
4. Select **Add a page**. Under **Build a new one**, choose **Quiz**. In the next panel, give the quiz a **Name** and select **Create and open**. The quiz goes on a new page at the end of your activity, and its editor opens.
5. Select **Add to this quiz**, then **Multiple choice**. Type the question in **What you ask**, type the options, and tick the right one. Add as many questions as you like. Everything saves by itself a moment after you stop typing.
6. Open the **Used in 1 activity** tab and select your activity's title to go back to it.
7. Select **Preview** at the top right. Your activity opens in a new tab exactly as a student meets it. Nothing you answer there is saved.
8. Select **Publish**. If something would stop students using the activity, such as a question with no right answer, Taktyl lists it instead. Fix each one and select **Publish** again.
9. Select **Share**, then **Copy** beside the link. Paste the link wherever your students look: an email, a course page or a slide.

From now on, when you change the activity, its header says **Unpublished changes**. Students keep the version you published until you select **Publish changes**.

To put the activity in your LMS instead, see the guides under **Your LMS**.