Lesson - Basics

The lesson activity presents a series of HTML pages, similar to Moodle book. Underneath the content area of each page the student can be asked to make some sort

of choice. The choice will send them to a specific page in the Lesson.

A lesson can be set up in the usual way via the 'Add activity or resource' button. During the set-up process lots of different settings are available, most of which can be safely ignored. All setting options are described here:

Lesson administration settings

There are 2 basic Lesson page types that the student will see: question pages and content pages.

moodle lesson design first screen

Add a content page

    • This is a page where you can provide information to move the lesson forward but without requiring the student to answer specific questions.

    • The student sees the page's title, some information and then one or more buttons at the bottom to select.

    • When the student clicks on a button, they go to the next page but their choice is not scored.

Title

The title of a content page appears to the student at the top of the page. The title in a content page is also used with the display left menu setting.

Page contents

This is where you can add information for the student, making use of the text editor and its multimedia features.

Content 1

In the 'Description' box you write the words you want the student to click on to get to the next part of the lesson. These words will appear to the student as a button. The buttons can be set to appear horizontally, or centred vertically.

You have several options available for Content buttons. How many of these you have depends on your choice in the Maximum Number of Answers setting in Lesson settings

Jump

Each Description in a Content page has a Jump menu. Jumps take a student from one page to another.

The image below shows what this first page looks like. It has three 'Descriptions' (= choices), which allow to jump to different pages within the lesson:

moodle lesson example page

When a student clicks on a description button (Page, Book or Lesson), they are sent to the page defined in the Jump associated with this button.

Add a question page

This allows you to add a variety of question types. (Similar to the Quiz activity, but with fewer choices).

The Question types available are Multichoice, Essay, Matching, Numerical, Short answer, True/false

Each answer choice the student makes also allows a 'Jump' to another page within the lesson.

Important:

A lesson requires careful planning and testing. This might seem time-consuming at first, but once a lesson is set up, it is re-usable and easy to update!