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*''Note: Click the "Show Advanced" toggle button to the right if you don't see all the options below.'' | *''Note: Click the "Show Advanced" toggle button to the right if you don't see all the options below.'' | ||
*[[Using Lesson]] gives examples of how these settings may be put to best effect. | |||
====Allow Student Review==== | ====Allow Student Review==== | ||
*This puts a "Review Lesson" button on the last screen of the lesson to encourage the student to navigate through the lesson again from the start. Be sure to check other settings to allow them to change their answers. | *This puts a "Review Lesson" button on the last screen of the lesson to encourage the student to navigate through the lesson again from the start. Be sure to check other settings to allow them to change their answers. | ||
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To add a Lesson:
- As an editing teacher for a course, click "Turn Editing On", and go to the topic or week section in which you want to create the Lesson.
- From the dropdown menu labeled "Add an activity", select "Lesson". This will take you to the Lesson settings page titled "Adding a new Lesson" page.
Lesson administration settings
General
- Note: Click the "Show Advanced" button to the right if you don't see all the options below.
Name
- The name you add here will be the link the students click on to get to your Lesson.
Time limit
- This allows you to set a time limit on the lesson. Students will see a count down counter as they work.The timer does not stop them doing the the lesson when the time is up, but correct answers are no longer scored.
Available from/Deadline
- Here you can set a start and end date and time for your Lesson.
Maximum Number of Answers
- Here you can set the default number of answer boxes available when you add your question or content pages. For instance, if you are only going to use True/False, you would only need 2. You can change this at any time so it's not crucial.
Password protected
- Change to "Yes" and enter the password if you want students only to access it when they know the password.
Grade
- Set a grade and grade category here.
Grade options
Practice lesson
- Use this if you don't need the lesson to be scored/graded but just need students to work through some pages.
Custom Scoring
- Use this to give a particular number score (negative or positive) to each answer
Re-takes allowed
- Choose this if you want your students to be able to do the lesson more than once.
Handling of re-takes
- If you allow your students to re-take the lesson, then decide here if the grade for all lesson attempts is the mean or the maximum.
- Note that the Question Analysis always uses the answers from the first tries of the lesson. Re-takes by students are ignored.
Display ongoing score
- Choose this to let students see their score as they work through the lesson.
Flow Control
- Note: Click the "Show Advanced" toggle button to the right if you don't see all the options below.
- Using Lesson gives examples of how these settings may be put to best effect.
Allow Student Review
- This puts a "Review Lesson" button on the last screen of the lesson to encourage the student to navigate through the lesson again from the start. Be sure to check other settings to allow them to change their answers.
Provide option to try a question again
- This displays a button after an incorrectly answered question so that the student can try again (but not get credit for it)
- TIP: Leave this off if you are using essay questions.
Maximum Number of Attempts
- Decide here how many times you want students to be able to attempt each question. When they reach the maximum, they will be taken automatically to the next page.
Action after a Correct Answer
- Choose here where you want a student to be sent to if they get a question right. See Using Lesson for more details on this setting. The options are:
- the next part of the Lesson (default setting)
- a random, unexpected page
- a random page which they have not yet answered.
Display default feedback
- Choose this if you want to show a set phrase regardless of their answer. If you have set your own default feedback such as "well done; correct" or "never mind; better luck next time" etc it will appear. If you have not, then Moodle's default feedback will appear.
Progress bar
- Choose this to show a bar at the bottom of the page showing how far into the lesson the student has got.
- Choose this if you want to show a list of the pages in the Lesson so a student can see what is coming up.
- Choose this if you want the student to go through the lesson (and get a grade) once and then, on review, to be able to see and navigate through all the different pages.
Minimum Number of Questions
- Set here the minimum number of questions that will be used to calculate a student's score.Students will be told how many they have answered and how many more they need to answer.
- If you are using Content pages, then set this to 0.
- If you use this setting, then add some explanatory text at the start of the lesson so the student knows how many questions they must answer as a minimum. (They may answer more.)
Number of Pages to Show
This setting only works when "Action after correct answer" is set to "Show an unseen page" or "Show an unanswered page". Lesson will then show a specific number of random pages to a student. For example, setting this to 10, will show 10 random pages and then bring the student to the end of the lesson with their grade. (In 2.0 this is an Advanced feature.)
If this parameter is set to a number greater than the number of pages in the lesson then the end of the lesson is reached when all the pages have been shown. When set to the default of 0 (zero), all pages are shown.
Slideshow
This enables the display of the lesson as a slide show, with a fixed width, height, and custom background color. A CSS based scroll bar will be displayed if the width or height of the slide is exceeded by the content of a page. Questions will 'break out' of the slide show mode, only content (branch tables) pages will be shown in a slide by default. Buttons labeled with the default for "Next" and "Previous" will be shown at the far right and left of the slide if that option is chosen on the page. Other buttons will be centered below the slide. You can also decide on the width, height and the background colour of the slide show. See site administration settings below for more information.
Link to an activity
You may pick another activity link that will appear on the end of lesson page that shows the student their score.
Pop-up to file or web page
At the start of the lesson, this creates a popup window. For example this might be a music file, an agreement or text which the student can refer while in the lesson.See site administration settings below concerning width and height.
Dependent on
A lesson can be dependent upon another lesson. There are 3 possible dependencies which can be use separately or in combination with each other. Time Spent (minutes) refers to how long the student was in the lesson on their last attempt (it is not cumulative). Completed means the student has attempted one question. Grade as a percentage of a specific lesson means just that.
- Note: This feature was developed before but is similar to the site wide "Restrict access" feature below.
- TIP: When dependency does not seem to work when it is set to "Completed" on another lesson, you must have a question for lesson to recognize that it is complete. Put a multiple choice question at the end of the lesson and ask: "In this lesson you learned A, B, and C." Do not put in an answer or a jump. The student will see "Continue" at the end and go to the end of the lesson and fulfill the requirement of completing the lesson. The dependent on lesson can not be a practice lesson.
Common module settings
- Groupings: Groups must be turned on in the course
- Available for groups only check box (advanced)
- Visible (moved from Access Control section)
- ID number
- Grade category
Restrict access
This group of settings will show when the site administrator has activated two advanced settings in Site administration > Advanced settings. For more information see:
- Completion tracking = marks activity complete based upon criterion.
- Conditional activities - controls entry into the lesson based upon criterion.
Site administration settings
The lesson module has additional settings which may be changed by an administrator in Settings > Site administration > Plugins > Activity modules > Lesson.
Slideshow width
Sets the width of the slideshow only when this feature is enabled in a Lesson's "Change settings".
- Variable name: lesson_slideshowwidth, Default 640.
Slideshow height
Sets the height of the slideshow only when this feature is enabled in a Lesson's "Change settings".
- Variable name: lesson_slideshowheight, Default 480.
Slideshow background colour
Background colour to for the slideshow if it is enabled.
- Variable name: lesson_slideshowbgcolor, Default #FFFFFF.
Popup window width
Sets the width of the popup displayed for a linked media file
- Variable name: lesson_mediawidth, Default 640.
Popup window height
Sets the height of the popup displayed for a linked media file
- Variable name: lesson_mediaheight, Default 480.
Show close button:
Displays a close button as part of the popup generated for a linked media file
- Variable name: lesson_mediaclose, Default No.
Number of high scores displayed
Sets the number of high scores to display
- Variable name: lesson_maxhighscores, Default: 10
Maximum number of answers/branches
Default maximum number of answers/branches per page for site
- Variable name: lesson_maxanswers, Default: 4.
Action after correct answer
The default action to take after a correct answer
- Variable name: lesson_defaultnextpage, Default: Normal - follow lesson path
See also
- Creating a Lesson video tutorial
- Lesson defaults - site wide defaults in Moodle 2.0
