Lesson activity: Difference between revisions

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What is the Lesson activity?

The Lesson activity allows teachers to create 'branching' exercises where students are presented with content and then, depending on their responses, are directed to specific pages. The content may be text or multimedia.

Overview of the Lesson activity

How is it set up?

In a course, with the editing turned on, choose 'Lesson' from the activity chooser.
Give it a name and, if required, a description.
Expand the other sections to select the settings you want, including whether the Lesson is for practice or will be graded.
Click Save and Display and from the Edit tab, add your first page. This will usually be a Content page (where you add information) or a Question page (where you can select a question type.)
Make sure the 'Jumps' take you to the next page (if you want.) 'Jumps' direct the student to where they should go next. Once you have made all your pages, return and edit each Jump so it shows the correct page name
When you have saved your first page, continue adding pages from the Collapsed tab > Actions menu.

How does it work?

Student view

Students click on the Lesson icon in the course to access it and, depending on the teacher's settings see a page of information and are prompted to choose an option from a selection of possible responses.

The Lesson may be timed, and it may display a progress bar. It may have a table of contents showing all pages, or the navigation may be hidden.

Teacher view

Teachers see additional tabs when they access the Lesson. They can preview the flow, edit pages, view reports and grade essays (if Essay questions were used.)

More information

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-In the lesson page, you will have to decide the following:
+{{Activities}}
-the '''name''' of the lesson;
+__NOTOC__
-the '''maximum grade''' a student can get for doing the lesson;
+==What is the Lesson activity?==
-the '''maximum number of branches''' a student will be required to give in the lesson(also called '''the maximum number of branches''' (you can have 20 branches maximum).   You will also have to decide the following: if the lesson is '''timed''' (if you choose to time the lesson, you need to decide how much time students will have for the lesson);if students can '''retake''' the lesson or not (if you allow students to retake the lesson, you can choose one the two scoring methods: '''mean''' - average - or the max grade; AND between what dates the lesson is available to students.
+The Lesson activity allows teachers to create 'branching' exercises where students are presented with content and then, depending on their responses, are directed to specific pages. The content may be text or multimedia.
-Also, you can make your lesson '''a practice lesson''', which means that the lesson will not show up in the Gradebook.
-''The Maximum Number of Answers in a Lesson''
+{{MediaPlayer | url = https://youtu.be/pYJfz6vh_A0 | desc = Overview of the Lesson activity}}
-This value determines the maximum number of answers the teacher can use. The default value is 4. If the lesson uses only, say, TRUE or FALSE questions throughout then it is sensible to set this value to 2.
-This parameter also sets the maximum number of Branches that can be used in a Branch Table.
+==How is it set up?==
+#In a course, with the editing turned on, choose 'Lesson' from the activity chooser.
+#Give it a name and, if required, a description.
+# Expand the other sections to select the settings you want, including whether the Lesson is for practice or will be graded.
+#Click Save and Display and from the Edit tab, add your first page. This will usually be a Content page (where you add information) or a Question page (where you can select a question type.)
+#Make sure the 'Jumps' take you to the next page (if you want.) 'Jumps' direct the student to where they should go next. Once you have made all your pages, return and edit each Jump so it shows the correct page name
+#When you have saved your first page, continue adding pages from the Collapsed tab > Actions menu.
-It is safe to change the value of this parameter in a lesson with existing content. In fact if you want to add a question with many choices or a long Branch table changing this parameter will be necessary. After the (unusual) question or BranchTable has been added this parameter can be reduced to a more "standard" value.
+==How does it work?==
+===Student view===
+Students click on the Lesson icon in the course to access it and, depending on the teacher's settings see a page of information and are prompted to choose an option from a selection of possible responses.
+[[File:LessonStudentView.png|center|600px|Student view of a Lesson first page]]
+The Lesson may be timed, and it may display a progress bar. It may have a table of contents showing all pages, or the navigation may be hidden.
+===Teacher view===
+Teachers see additional tabs when they access the Lesson. They can preview the flow, edit pages, view reports and  grade essays (if Essay questions were used.)
+[[File:LessonTeacherView.png|center|600px|Teacher view of Lesson]]
+==More information==
+* [[Lesson settings]]
+* [[Building Lesson]]
+* [[Using Lesson]]
+* [[Lesson FAQ]]
+[[Category:Lesson]]
+[[es:Actividad de lección]]
+[[eu:Ikasgaiak]]
+[[fr:Leçon]]
+[[de:Lektion]]
+[[fi:Oppitunti (aktiviteetti)]]

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