
{"id":5577,"date":"2018-01-05T12:23:05","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T12:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/asti\/?p=5577"},"modified":"2020-01-03T15:27:07","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T15:27:07","slug":"lesson-activity-in-moodle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/digital-education\/lesson-activity-in-moodle\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson activity in Moodle"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>What is it?<\/h2>\n<p>A Lesson is an activity in Moodle. Lessons are a series of pages that link together, they can include content pages as well as question and answer pages. In the simplest form, learners can click the &#8216;continue&#8217; button to move to the next page\/section within the lesson. Pages within the lesson can include text, quizzes, images and multimedia etc. for more interaction.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5590\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5590\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/digital-education\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/96\/2017\/12\/Student-View.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5590 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/digital-education\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/96\/2017\/12\/Student-View-1024x450.png\" alt=\"Moodle Lesson - Student View\" width=\"560\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/digital-education\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/96\/2017\/12\/Student-View-1024x450.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/digital-education\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/96\/2017\/12\/Student-View-300x132.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/digital-education\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/96\/2017\/12\/Student-View-768x337.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/digital-education\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/96\/2017\/12\/Student-View-624x274.png 624w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/digital-education\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/96\/2017\/12\/Student-View.png 1776w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5590\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Moodle Lesson &#8211; Student view showing content page<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Why would you use it?<\/h2>\n<p>Each choice the students makes can show a different response\/comment and send the student to a different page in the lesson. Lessons can be used for branching activities, taking the student to different content depending on their answers, for self-directed learning to take place.<\/p>\n<p>A lesson can include questions for students to self-assess their learning. Students can then be automatically directed to further questions, feedback pages or other content pages depending on their response. Lesson are also used for scenarios or simulations\/decision-making exercises and for differentiated revision, with different sets of revision questions depending upon answers given to initial questions.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5589\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5589\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/digital-education\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/96\/2017\/12\/Staff-Setup.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5589 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/digital-education\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/96\/2017\/12\/Staff-Setup-1024x494.png\" alt=\"Moodle Lesson - Staff Setup\" width=\"560\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/digital-education\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/96\/2017\/12\/Staff-Setup-1024x494.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/digital-education\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/96\/2017\/12\/Staff-Setup-300x145.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/digital-education\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/96\/2017\/12\/Staff-Setup-768x370.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/digital-education\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/96\/2017\/12\/Staff-Setup-624x301.png 624w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/digital-education\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/96\/2017\/12\/Staff-Setup.png 1327w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5589\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Moodle Lesson &#8211; Staff setup demonstrating page types available and other options such as branching<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>How do you use it?<\/h2>\n<p>You&#8217;ll need to have a clear idea beforehand of what you want to do with this lesson. Some questions to consider include:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Is it to be a graded, linear learning experience?<\/li>\n<li>Or an ungraded, non-linear practice session?<\/li>\n<li>Will students be able to go back and revisit areas or is it just a once-only opportunity?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>As lessons in Moodle can become complex, a good tip is to sketch out your pages on paper before you begin to create the lesson itself, this will help during the set up stage.<\/p>\n<p>As with other Moodle activities, turn \u2018editing on\u2019 on the course page you want the lesson to appear, click \u2018add a activity or resource\u2019 and click \u2018lesson\u2019. This page will guide you through the <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.moodle.org\/32\/en\/Lesson_settings\">lesson settings.<\/a> This page outlines <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.moodle.org\/32\/en\/Using_Lesson#What_the_teacher_sees\">how students and teachers interact with Moodle lessons<\/a> once they have been created.<\/p>\n<p>Frequently Asked Questions relating to the Lesson activity can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.moodle.org\/32\/en\/Lesson_FAQ\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is it? A Lesson is an activity in Moodle. Lessons are a series of pages that link together, they can include content pages as well as question and answer pages. In the simplest form, learners can click the &#8216;continue&#8217; button to move to the next page\/section within the lesson. 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