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This page is about lesson settings that can be changed by the teacher. Some settings maybe shown by clicking on "These settings can be changed when in a lesson by the ''[[Settings block]] > Lesson administration > Edit settings''.  There are excellent help files once Lesson settings window has been open.


When creating a new lesson with the "Add activity" pull down menu, Moodle will first show the lesson settings page.  
This page explains the settings involved when first creating a lesson.
To add a lesson to your Moodle course page:
*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.


After reviewing the lesson settings and saving them, you (the teacher) will jump back to the page list with its insert, edit, move or delete potentials.  See [[Building Lesson]] for more help.
==Lesson administration settings==


== General ==
===General===
There is a "Show or Hide Advanced" toggle button(s) that is found in many other activities.   Remember to click on this button to see features.
*''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.


===Name===
====Time limit====  
Lesson name. HTML code will not work in this field.
 
===Time limit===  
[[Image:Lesson Timer.png|right]]
[[Image:Lesson Timer.png|right]]
Allows teacher to set a time limit on the lesson. Students are shown a count down counter and the time is recorded in the database. The timer does not evict a student from the lesson when the time is up, but does not score a question after the time limit reaches 0:00:00. The time in the database is checked each time a student submits a question.
*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====
===The Maximum Number of Answers / Branches in a Lesson===
*Here you can set a start and end date and time for your Lesson.
This value determines the maximum number of answers the teacher can see and use when editing a lesson or a page. The default value is 12.  This is a useful feature in older versions of Moodle that have no collapsed view.  This value can reduce the number of screens a teacher might see in the lesson edit mode.
====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.
This parameter also sets the maximum number of buttons with descriptions and jumps that can be seen by the teacher in a Content (Branch Table) page.
 
It is safe to change the value of this parameter at any time. It only effects what the teacher sees, not the data. For example, a teacher starting to enter a series of multiple choice questions with 6 answers, might set this value to 6.  Then when the teacher starts to enter a series of questions with 2 answers,  they might set this value to 2 because they don't need to see 4 blank answers for every question in the design phase.
 
In a similar manner, changing the value does not effect what the student sees when they view a content page, nor does it change previous information put in by the teacher.
 
===Password protected===
Change to "Yes"  and enter the password if you want to protect the lesson
 
== Grade Options ==
 
===Practice Lesson===
A practice lesson will not show up in the Gradebook. A practice lesson can not be a dependent lesson.
 
===Custom Scoring===
This will allow you to put a numerical point value on each answer in a question page. Answers may have negative values or positive values. Imported questions will automatically be assigned 1 point for correct answers and 0 for incorrect, though you may change this after the import.
 
===Re-takes allowed===
This setting determines whether the students can take the lesson more than once or only once. The teacher may decide that the lesson contains material which the students ought to know thoroughly. In which case repeated viewing of the lesson should be allowed. If, however, the material is used more like an exam then the students should not be allowed to re-take the lesson.
 
===Handling of re-takes===
When the students are allowed to re-take the lesson, the grades shown in the Grades page are either their average grade over the re-takes or their best grade for the lesson. The next parameter determines which of these two grading alternatives is used.
 
:Note that the Question Analysis always uses the answers from the first tries of the lesson, subsequent re-takes by students are ignored.
 
===Display ongoing score===
This setting will allow the student to see their current score.
 
== Flow Control ==
Please see [[Using_Lesson#Some_Flow_control_scenarios_.26_their_implications|Some flow control scenarios]] for some examples that use these settings.
===Allow Student Review===
This will place 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.


===Display Review Button===
====Password protected====
This will display a button after an incorrectly answered question, allowing a student to re-attempt it.
*Change to "Yes"  and enter the password if you want students only to access it when they know the password.


:''TIP:'' It is not compatible with essay questions, so leave this off if you are using essay questions.  Sometimes this setting will override any "display default feedback" lesson setting, where the default feedback will always be displayed when the review button is shown.
===Grade===
*Set a grade and grade category here.


===The Maximum Number of Attempts (by a Student)===
===Grade options===
This value determines the maximum number of attempts a student (not a teacher) will have to answer any question in the lesson. Once reached, the student will not see the question again.
====Practice lesson====
*Use this if you don't need the lesson to be scored/graded but just need students to work through some pages.


The default value is 5. Smaller values may discourage the student from trying different answers about a question. Larger values may lead to frustration when the student "does not get it".  For example with a short answer or numerical question, the student is not given an opportunity to try different answer choices. This value provides an escape route to the next page in the lesson.
====Custom Scoring====
*Use this to give a particular number score (negative or positive) to each answer


Setting this value to 1 gives the students just single chance to answer each question. This would be similar to a question in the Quiz module.
====Re-takes allowed====
*Choose this if you want your students to be able to do the lesson more than once.


:''Note:'' this value is student global parameter and that it applies to all the questions in the lesson regardless of their type. However it does not apply to teachers checking of questions or navigating through the lesson. Checking the number of attempts relies on values stored in the database and question attempts by teachers are not recorded. The teacher should after all know the answers!  So teachers should switch their roles to that of a student to observe this feature.
====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.


===Action after correct answer===
:Note that the Question Analysis always uses the answers from the first tries of the lesson. Re-takes by students are ignored.
"Normal", "Show unseen", "Show unanswered"


===Action after a Correct Answer===
====Display ongoing score====
The usual action is to follow the jump as specified in the answer. In most cases this will probably show the Next Page of the lesson. The student is taken through the lesson in a logical way, beginning at the start and ending at the end. (In 2.0 this is an Advanced feature.)
*Choose this to let students see their score as they work through the lesson.


However, the lesson module can also be used as a type of Flash Card assignment. The student is shown some information (optional) and a question in basically a random order. There is no set beginning and no set end. Just a set of Cards shown one after another in no particular order.
===Flow Control===


This option allows two very similar variants of Slide show (Flash Card) behavior. The option "Show an unseen page" never shows the same page twice (even if the student did not answer the question associated with the Card/Page correctly). The other non-default option "Show an unanswered page" allows the student to see pages that may have appeared before but only if they answered the associated question wrongly.
*''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.


In either of these Flash Card-type lessons the teacher can decide to use either all the Cards/Pages in the lesson or just a (random) sub-set. This is done through the "Number of Pages (Cards) to show" parameter.
====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)


'''If you want a student to be taken directly from one question to the next irrespective of their answer being correct or incorrect''': in the Lesson Settings, set Maximum number of attempts: to 1. Please note, however, that a message "correct / incorrect" will still be displayed to the student upon answering each question. If you do not want this (default) feedback message to be displayed then enter your own feedback message (i.e. "continue", "---", etc.) In case you want no visible message displayed then enter a non-breaking space as feedback, so you'll have to put a # after the answer which may be ~3 and write & n b s p ; after that.(without spaces between these characters) To find out how Moodle works - you may export a sample of your questions with GIFT and check them out!
:''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.


===Display default feedback ===
====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.


Feedback to a specific answer to a question can appear on the next page after the student makes a choice and submits it. The question, the student's answer and the feedback appear on a page with a continue button at the bottom. This lesson setting controls what appears as the feedback response and if the page appears at all.
====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.
''*Note: There are currently some issues with the lesson progress bar not displaying as expected. MDL-26016''


When this option is set to Yes, the standard default response will appearIn most lessons, when this is set to yes, Lesson first looks for the teachers custom feedback and if it does not find one, will put in the default feedback. It is possible to change the words used in the standard [[Language editing|default feedbacks]] for the entire Moodle Site.
====Display left menu====
*Choose this if you want to show a list of the pages in the Lesson so a student can see what is coming up.
====Display left menu only if grade greater than ...%====
*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.
====Number of pages to show====
*You only need this if you have set "Action after a correct answer" to show an unseen or unanswered page. Otherwise, all pages will be seen.
====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.
====Slideshow====
*Choose this if you want your Lesson displayed as a slideshow with fixed width, height and custom background colour. The administrator sets the defaults for these in ''Settings>Site Administration>Plugins>Activity modules>Lesson.''


Selecting No, will only show the teacher's supplied feedbacks for each specific answer.  If the teacher has not entered a response for a specific answer, then the feedback page is not displayed and the student will immediately go to the page that the specific answer's jump is set to.
====Link to an activity====
 
*Choose this to give students a link to another activity when they reach the end of the lesson. ''(Note: this can also be achieved using [[Conditional activities]])''
:''TIP:'' Under some versions of Moodle, other lesson settings may cause the default feedback to appear, even when the teacher has supplied their own feedback.  Changing the "Review button" lesson setting to "No" will show the teachers custom feedback.
 
===Progress bar===
A simple bar at the bottom of the lesson which will give an approximate percentage of completion.  Since lessons vary greatly in their navigation, this works best with lesson that follow the logical order and do not jump around.
 
:''Tip:'' While calculating the percent completed, Content and Question pages that are answered correctly count toward Lesson progress. While calculating the total number of pages in the Lesson, clusters and pages within clusters only count as a single page and End of Cluster and End of Branch Table pages are excluded. All other pages count toward the total number of pages in the Lesson.
 
===Display left menu options===  
If you want the left menu to display, then you can set the grade level that it will appear.
 
If grade greater than - select number from 0% - 100%
 
=== Minimum Number of Questions ===
This value determines the '''minimum''' number of questions that will be used to calculate a student's score.  It does not force students to answer that many questions in the lesson.  When a lesson contains one or more [[Adding a branch table| branches]], the teacher should normally set this parameter.
 
:For example, setting this parameter to 20, will ensure that grades are given as though the students have seen at least this number of questions. Take the case of a student who only looks at a single branch in a lesson with 5 pages and answers all the associated questions correctly. This student then choose to end the lesson (assuming there is that option in the "top level"Branch Table, a reasonable enough assumption). If this parameter was set to 0 their grade would be 5 out of 5, that is 100%. However, with it set to 20 their grade would be reduced to 5 out of 20, that is 25%. In the case of another student who goes through all the branches and sees, say, 25 pages and answers all but two of the questions correctly, then their grade would be 23 out of 25, that is 92%.
 
If this parameter is used, the teacher might want to add  a statement on the opening page of the lesson.  For example, if the teacher set the value to 20 they might say:
 
:In this lesson you are expected to attempt at least ''20'' questions. You can attempt more if you wish. However, if you attempt less than ''20'' questions your grade will be calculated as though you attempted ''20''.
 
When this parameter is set to a value more than 0,  students are told how many questions they have attempted and how many they are expected to attempt.
 
===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.
 
===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.
 
== Lesson formatting ==
 
===Slide Show===
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. (In 2.0 moved to Advanced flow control options, with width, height and backgrounds part of [[Lesson defaults]])
 
===Display Left Menu===
This will show a list of the pages (Branch Tables) in the lesson. Question pages, cluster pages, etc. will not be shown by default (you may choose to show question pages by checking that option on the question).
 
By specifying a grade greater than 0, the user taking the Lesson must have a grade equal to or greater than the grade set in order to view the Left Menu. This allows Lesson designers to force users to go through the entire lesson during the user's first attempt. Then, if a user retakes the Lesson after meeting the required grade, s/he can see the Left Menu to help with review.
 
===Progress bar===
A simple bar at the bottom of the lesson which will give an approximate percentage of completion.  Since lessons vary greatly in their navigation, this works best with lesson that follow the logical order and do not jump around.
 
:''Tip:'' While calculating the percent completed, Content and Question pages that are answered correctly count toward Lesson progress. While calculating the total number of pages in the Lesson, clusters and pages within clusters only count as a single page and End of Cluster and End of Branch Table pages are excluded. All other pages count toward the total number of pages in the Lesson.
 
== Access control ==
This section features have been moved to other sections in 2.0.
 
===Password Protected Lesson===
This will not allow a student to access the lesson unless they type the password. (See Advanced general options in 2.0)
 
=== 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.
 
:''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.
 
===Available from & deadline dates===
Determine the dates for the opening and closing of the lesson.  For example it is possible to close the course in the year 2020. (Note: in 2.0 this is part of "General options" section).
 
===Link to activity===
A pull down menu will allow the teacher to create a link to another activity when the lesson is finished.  This link will appear as a button on the [[Lesson_Pages#End_of_Lesson_Page|"end of lesson page"]], with links to grades or back to the homepage of the course. (Note: in 2.0 this is part of "Flow Control" section.)


===Pop-up to file or web page===
===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. (Note: in 2.0 this has it's own section, width and height are site administration settings [[Lesson defaults]] in 2.0)
*If you want to include a link to a file on the lesson page for students to refer to, upload it here.
 
===Use this lesson's settings as defaults===
Select yes before Saving the lesson, and the settings you have chosen for this lesson will be the default settings for the next time you create a lesson for this course. In 2.0 see [[Lesson defaults]]
 
==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


==Save the settings and add the the first page in a Lesson==
===Dependent on===
*This allows access to the lesson to be dependent on students' performance in another lesson in the same course. ''(Note: this can also be achieved with [[Conditional activities]])''


After you decide on the lesson settings (above), you are taken to the lesson and you are asked which of the following you want to do now: import questions, add a Content (Branch Table) page or add a Question Page. To read more about adding pages go to: [[Viewing_a_lesson]]. If you would like more information about lesson pages in general go to [[Lesson Pages]] or select something from the index at the top of this page or one of the overall indexes below.
==Other settings==
There are the usual [[Common module settings]] and - if admin has enabled them - the Restrict access settings and Activity Completion settings in [[Conditional activities]].


==Site administration settings==
==Site administration settings==
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*Variable name: lesson_maxhighscores, Default: 10
*Variable name: lesson_maxhighscores, Default: 10


===Maximum number of answers/branches===
===Maximum number of answers===
Default maximum number of answers/branches per page for site
Default maximum number of answers per page for site
*Variable name: lesson_maxanswers, Default: 4.
*Variable name: lesson_maxanswers, Default: 4.


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==See also==
==See also==
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xjXelUZguw Creating a Lesson video tutorial]
*[[Lesson defaults]] - site wide defaults in Moodle 2.0


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Latest revision as of 14:52, 25 April 2012


This page explains the settings involved when first creating a lesson. To add a lesson to your Moodle course page:

  • 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

Lesson Timer.png
  • 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.

*Note: There are currently some issues with the lesson progress bar not displaying as expected. MDL-26016

Display left menu

  • Choose this if you want to show a list of the pages in the Lesson so a student can see what is coming up.

Display left menu only if grade greater than ...%

  • 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.

Number of pages to show

  • You only need this if you have set "Action after a correct answer" to show an unseen or unanswered page. Otherwise, all pages will be seen.

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.

Slideshow

  • Choose this if you want your Lesson displayed as a slideshow with fixed width, height and custom background colour. The administrator sets the defaults for these in Settings>Site Administration>Plugins>Activity modules>Lesson.

Link to an activity

  • Choose this to give students a link to another activity when they reach the end of the lesson. (Note: this can also be achieved using Conditional activities)

Pop-up to file or web page

  • If you want to include a link to a file on the lesson page for students to refer to, upload it here.

Dependent on

  • This allows access to the lesson to be dependent on students' performance in another lesson in the same course. (Note: this can also be achieved with Conditional activities)

Other settings

There are the usual Common module settings and - if admin has enabled them - the Restrict access settings and Activity Completion settings in Conditional activities.

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

Default maximum number of answers 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