Lesson module/draft

Other links: Lesson module or Lesson module/Lesson questionsor Lesson module/draftoutline

The new outline

1. General information about the lesson and its methodology
2. Presentation Lesson
   1. Pages- questions, answers and responses
   2. Edit order and navigation order
      1. Ordered branches
      2. Classic branches Classic branches Ordered branches
3. Building lessons

1. After the Lesson - evaluating/review
   1. Teacher' programming
      1. Answers Out of place, why?
      2. Grading Out of place, own subject? Grading (lesson)
   2. Student Views
      1. Re-takes Mention, covered in settings
2. Questions Short and sweet
   1. Types of questions available within a lesson (Needs own page in template-The Quiz/Lesson conflict over questions)
      1. Multiple choice
         1. With multianswer box checked
      2. Short answer
      3. True / false
      4. Matching questions
      5. Numerical Question
      6. Essay Questions
3. Branches and branch tables (Example of short overview)
   1. Tips when using branches
4. The Flash card lesson Ok but
5. Lesson dependencies and linking (new feature)
   1. Dependency (Page by itself, remember 2.0)
   2. Links to other places
6. See also

New words

The lesson module presents a series of HTML pages to the student, who is usually asked to make some sort of choice underneath the content area. The teacher can set a link (called a "jump") to another lesson page for each choice the student makes.

There are 2 basic Lesson page types that the student will see: question pages and branch table pages. When a student answers a question they have made a choice. The teacher can have a link/jump and a response associated with each choice. When a student selects a labeled button on a branch table page they have also made a choice, with a link/jump.

The teacher also has several advanced navigational pages they can use to suppliment the way a student will move though part of the lesson.

• The significant difference between a Lesson and other activity tools available in Moodle comes from its adaptive ability. With this tool, each answer to a question may send the student to a different series of pages in the lesson. The teacher's response and the next page the student will see has already been thought out by the teacher. Thus Lesson can deliver content in interesting and flexible ways to each student, with no direct or time sensitive action required by the teacher once the lesson has been created.

General information about the lesson and its methodology

For a student, a lesson is a series of interactive pages that require a choice on their part before the next page appears.

There are two basic modes: presentation and flash card. Most of the descriptions of a lesson in this document are about the presentation mode and the use of questions and branch pages. The Flash Card section describes how to make lesson pages appear randomly.

A presentation lesson can be a series of pages shown to the student in a linear fashion, like a slide show, or presented in a non-linear, branching manner, or a combination of the two.

For example, a particular answer might send the student back in the lesson for a review, while another answer will advance the student to a new page. Sometimes the student will only be given the choice to "continue".

The lesson can be scored with the use of questions for a grade, or be used simply as a resource of non-graded pages or a combination of both.