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General

Give the lesson a meaningful Name and a Description.

Appearance

In appearance you have a range of options on how the lesson will behave:

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In terms of the other options, in the example below we have selected Yes for Display ongoing score and Display menu and left the rest as default. This means the students will see a score as they progress and there will be a navigation menu on the left to provide them with the ability to select individual pages rather than being guided through in a set sequence.

Availability

Use Availability to set a time period for the lesson if required.

Use Prerequisite lesson if students need to complete a prior lesson.

Flow control

Flow control is quite important even for simple lessons such as the one exemplified in this guide. We have changed Allow student review to Yes to allow students to review the lesson (see also Re-takes allowed under Grade). We have also selected Yes on Provide option to try a question again. However, we have limited the number of attempts on a question to 4.

Grade

In Grade, choose how to handle grading and attempts. In the example below, we have chosen Custom scoring as opposed to using Grade for automatic scoring. This means we can allocate different scores per question. We are also selecting Yes to allow the students to re-take the lesson and leaving Handling of re-takes as the default Use mean.

On completion, click Save and Return to course.

N.B. As with other Moodle activities, it is not always possible to grasp the significance of some of the settings until you have seen them in action, so set what you can on your first attempt and then revisit these settings when you have had a chance to experiment with your lesson content.

Having set up a lesson, you are ready to populate it with content and question pages

Step 3

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: Add pages to a Lesson 

Lessons require some preparation before you try to set them up in Moodle. Even for simple ones, you are advised to produce some kind of flowchart of the instructional paths. 

Once the lesson container has been set up you can populate it with content and question pages.  Turn editing on and click the lesson to start the page creation process. You will be asked how you want to proceed. In this guide we will look at question and content pages. For the other options see more information on lesson content types section at the bottom of this page. Select Add a question page to follow the example being used in the guide.

You are then prompted as to the type of question you would like to create from Essay, Matching, Multichoice (default), Numerical, Short answer or True/false. See Question types on Moodle Docs for more information for more information.

Accept the default Multichoice and click Add a question page.

Give the page a title, which you may also want to repeat in Page contents as the title of a question page is not displayed to students. You can also add a picture if you wish. Then type the question text. This example is a single correct answer, so Multiple-answer is unchecked.

Next, add the answers and responses. Note that because Custom scoring was selected in lesson settings, it is possible to vary the scores per question and allow for Answer 2 to be partially right. In Jump, specify the page that the question response should link to if other than Next page. Both answers 1 and 2 link to Historical context, whereas Answer 3 (the wrong answer) takes the student to a different page. (See below.)

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