Find out how to set up a lesson and improve the experiential and consequential learning experience for your students, a webinar by Eworks Australia

1. Moodle Lessons
Sarah Phillips

2. What are Moodle Lessons?
Lessons are an activity type in Moodle that integrates a resource with
an activity for a more advanced approach to student engagement.
Lessons are a combination of presentation slides and questioning to
allow for a range of different uses including:
• Content and quiz combinations
• Consequential scenario activities

3. Content and quiz combinations
The first of these two options is the content and quiz combinations.
• Allow for a scenario or content section
• These are followed by questioning
• Can be used for formative and summative assessment
• Records into gradebook
• Allow for building question banks so that can randomize questions
• Questions can be imported from previously set up question banks

4. Consequential scenario activities
This is the more powerful way to use the Lesson function.
• Used to provide options to students based on a scenario
• They follow the principles of decision trees
• Not based on right or wrong answers
• Outcomes are presented after the student’s choice
• Students can have opportunities to rectify poor decisions

5. They are tricky
Lessons are extremely difficult to design while building.
To save time and frustration:
• Plan out your process
• Develop a storyboard
• Identify your questions, answers and outcomes

6. Process plan
This can be complex or it can be simple..
• Identify your outcomes
• Identify your clusters
• Identify your path, branches and loops
• Identify your questions and where they live

7. Plan the path – Scenarios
Story
Decision 1 Not ideal outcome
Decision 1 Not ideal outcome
Decision 2 Ideal outcome
Decision 2 Ideal outcome

8. Content and
questions
Content
Random Question
Wrong answer
New Random
Question
Right answer
Wrong answer
Wrong answer
New Random
Question
Right answer
Wrong answer
Wrong answer
Right answer
Wrong answer
Random question
Wrong answer
Right answer
Wrong answer

9. Storyboarding
Storyboards are documents that provide a framework for developing
digital learning resources.
They are designed to plan the interaction of content and activities.
Storyboards come in many different formats and are used to control
different factors depending on their purpose.
These include:
• PowerPoints
• Tables in document – This is best for branch scenarios
• Use of Heading styles in a document

10. Storyboarding
Scenario story
Content page with question
Response 1 landing page
Another question leading to 2
options
Response 2 landing page
This is a dead end with a sad end.
Response 3 landing page
This is a dead end with happy end.
Response 1 landing page scenario
continues
Response 2 landing page – end of
scenario (Lesson). Sad ending.
Story continues
Next content page with question
Response 1 landing page
Another question leading to 2
options
Response 2 landing page
This is a dead end with a sad end.
Response 3 landing page
This is a dead end with happy end.
Response 1 landing page scenario
continues – Happy ending
Response 2 landing page – end of
scenario (Lesson). Sad ending.

11. Building the lesson at the start…
You will see the lesson name at the top.
You will work between the tabs Preview and Edit. In the edit page, you
will see:
What would you like to do first?
• Import question
• Add a content page
• Add a cluster
• Add a question

12. What order to develop
This can be complex or it can be simple..
• Build out your clusters
• Upload or build your questions within their clusters
• Build out your pages and choices
• Return to the pages last and add the jumps and test.

13. Importing questions
Questions can be imported
from question banks within
the Moodle course.
Simply back up existing
questions as a Moodle XML
format, and reload into this
space.

14. Content pages
Name the page,
Add the main content,
images, videos, what
ever you like.
Choose the branch
options:

15. Clusters
Clusters are the main
feature allowing
scenario building and
question banks.
Think of a cluster as
being a self contained
topic.
Clusters allow for movement between different pages and questions
within a group

16. Jumping
Jumping is the move that is made
based on the selection the
student has made.
Jumping can be based on
sequential flow or based on
random or unseen options.
Jumping can be at the end of a
content page or a question page.
It also allows for completion if the answer is right for a quiz, or may if
the answer is wrong for a scenario.

17. Where the jumps go
You will be asked where you want a particular jump
to go.
As you add pages, jumping options increase.
You will have more options to link to a specific page
rather than a random or non specified page.
Planning will assist in setting up in the right order.

18. Question pages
There are a number of
different question types
available.
Essay questions cannot
be used for scenario’s
that need immediate
responses for
progressing.
Be careful of short answer for this purpose also.

19. A lesson structure in collapsed form

20. How to prepare a content and quiz
combination Lesson
• On the main page, add an activity or resource
• Seek out the Lesson item from the options
• Provide a name to your Lesson
• Provide a description if you want
• Select No for Progress bar and Display menu if using for summative
assessment
• In Flow control, You can select Allow student review to yes if you
want them to review
• Don’t provide the option to try a questions again

21. How to prepare a content and quiz
combination Lesson
• For summative assessments, the Maximum number of attempts should be set
to align with your organisational policy. However you will need to set up banks
of questions to align with this.
• In Grade, set to Type to Point and Maximum grade set to the number of
questions you will require to be completed.
• Set this number as the Grade to pass also.
• Don’t allow a practice lesson or retakes allowed
• Set the minimum number of questions to the same as Max grade and Grade to
pass
• Finally in completion tracking, set ‘Show activity as complete when conditions
are met and select Require View, Require Grade and Require end reached.

22. Background wall photo by Joe Woods on Unsplash
Thank you
Sarah Phillips
www.popeducation.com.au