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title: "What are performance activities?"
slug: "what-are-performance-activities"
tags: ["Totara Perform", "Explainer"]
updated: 2022-11-09T12:02:09Z
published: 2022-11-09T12:02:09Z
canonical: "totara.help/what-are-performance-activities"
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# What are performance activities?

Totara Perform allows you to create flexible performance activities to suit your needs. These activities help you to carry out various performance tasks including appraisals, check-ins and other feedback. When [creating performance activities](/17/docs/create-a-performance-activity) you can configure the questions yourself, with many different [question types](/17/docs/performance-activity-content-and-question-types) available (from text answers to numeric and custom rating scales). You will also be able to set the frequency of the activity (for example you might set up weekly check-ins or yearly appraisals) and set up different triggers for activity creation (a fixed or relative date).

## Relationships

You can establish different participant relationships within a performance activity. When creating a performance activity the person the activity is about is considered the 'subject'. There will then likely be other users on the site who are also participants and they will have different relationships to the subject, such as manager, peer, mentor or appraiser (among others). You can also set up an external participant relationship if you would like someone who does not have access to your site to participate in a performance activity, an example of this might be getting customers to participate in a 360 review.

## Reporting

Once you have created performance activities and the subject and participant instances have been created, you can start to access [participation reporting](/17/docs/participation-reporting) about progress in these instances. You will also be able to access [question response reporting](/17/docs/question-response-reporting) once participants start to submit responses to your performance activities.

## Legacy

If you were using an older version of Totara (before Totara 13) then you can access [legacy performance activities](/17/docs/legacy-performance-management) if required. It is highly recommended that where possible you use the new and improved performance activities instead.

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