Lesson Pages
Lesson Pages
There are two basic types of Lesson pages: Choice and Navagation. Most pages offer the student choices, "question pages" (related to Quizzes are the most common. Moodle calls another type of choice page "branch tables". Navigation pages create additional robust features that impact a student's choices. "End of Branch", "Start Cluster" and "End Cluster" are the Navigational pages.
In this section will cover the generic format for these types. We will focus upon the Choice pages format as seen by the teacher. The use of the specific pages will be referenced to other pages. A question page has all the elements of a Branch Table, plus the question pages has a few more features.
Choice Pages - Branch (Branch Table)
Branch (we will simply call it Branch)pages have content and buttons at the bottom that students can select. Branch pages can serve as netural content pages that don't count as a question page in grade or lesson completion calculations.
The basic parts of a Branch page are: Page Title, Page Content, Description(#) and Jump(#). In the edit mode there is an edit toolbar filled with icons directly below the Page Title. At the bottom of the edit mode screen are buttons to redisply, save or cancel. Small yellow buttons with question marks are help links.
The Page Title itself is used to located the page as we will learn in jumps or have learned in building our lesson -link-.
Page Content is where material is going to be presented to the student. Editing Page content will offer a more complete description for those not familiar with basic formating icons. Perhaps the simpliest form of content is text. Moodle also allows insertion of pictures of various types, links to documents or webpages. Not to mention blank tables, emoticons, and special text characters. And for the brave and HTML savy, there is a toggle that switches between HTML code and WYSIWYG (what you see it what you get).
In other pages you will read that Branch pages serve as an initial Table of Contents. You will read more about that in Descriptions and Jumps below.
Descriptions
Descriptions are the choices the student must make. In a branch page these show up as buttons below the page. They can be arranged vertically or horizontally in any branch page.
Choice Pages - Question
"Categories" tab.
