This document introduces the SmartLesson plugin for Moodle, which expands the capabilities of Moodle's Lesson feature. SmartLesson allows content in different Lesson resources to be combined and reused across lessons. It enables adaptive content based on student knowledge and individualized learning paths. The key features of SmartLesson highlighted are its focus on reusable, granular content and adaptability. Menus and navigational maps are discussed as potential additions to improve SmartLesson's user interface. Development of SmartLesson is ongoing with an invitation for others to test the existing functions and provide feedback.

1. SmartLesson Plugin:
expanding the Lesson
resource's potential in
the Moodle
Carlos Adriano Cardoso

2. Summary
• The Lesson feature
• What is SmartLesson?
• SmartLesson x Lesson
• Why SmartLesson?
• Add Ons of SmartLesson
– Menu-Box
– navigational map

3. The Lesson feature
• The Lesson feature allows you
to create pages and content;
• Question pages;
• Allows you to group and create
clusters of questions for
random access;

4. The Lesson feature
• It allows to create content
branches and / or questions
that lead to different paths;
• It allows to set prerequisites
as condition for access to
others resource;

5. The Lesson feature
• It allow to connect to another
activity after finish a lesson;
• It allows the insertion of
several kind of media;

6. The Lesson feature
• Lesson is based on HTML and
allow to create web-pages with
media, images, links, forms,
and all kind of strategy to
build and deliver contents
and activities;
• It allows style setting with
Cascade Style Sheet (CSS).

7. The Lesson feature
• The statistics logs allow
inferences about the
activities, it allows tracking
the time the student takes to
read certain content, verify
the difficulties of content and
of questions;

8. The Lesson feature
We could say that is the
Lesson feature is an
authoring tool.

9. What is SmartLesson?
• The plugin SmartLesson is the
adaptation of the resource of
Moodle Lesson, that adds to
this feature the possibility to
"jump” from a SmartLesson to
all other SmartLessons in the
same Course.

10. What is SmartLesson?
• The SmartLesson enables the
development of granular
Learning Objects focusing on
reuse in different
instructional level;

11. What is SmartLesson?
• Enables adaptability of the
content according to the
previous knowledge of the
student;
• It allows you to create a
system of individualized
content and activities for each
student;

12. What is SmartLesson?
• A SmartLesson can jump to any
page of another SmartLesson in
the same course;
• The jumps can be setup on the
selection option box of the
view edit form;

13. What is SmartLesson?
• All the created page titles
become also links in the body
of content if they are present
on it;

14. SmartLesson x Lesson
• All the SmartLesson setup
follows exactly the setup of
the Lesson feature, they have
similar setup forms and the
same parameters;

15. SmartLesson x Lesson
• The great advantage of
SmartLesson is the ability to
create granular content-based
topics;
• Instead of having a collection of
screens in a single resource
Lesson, we have a collection of
features of SmartLessons that can
be combined and recombined;

16. SmartLesson x Lesson
– When the jump occurs from one
SmartLesson to another, the
SmartLesson undestand that this
resource ended;

17. Why SmartLesson
• Focus on reuse;
• granular content;
• Adaptability.

18. Add on of SmartLesson
–Menu-Box
It will allow the inclusion of
all SmartLesson screens titles
be included on one Block for
navigational control, such as
the Lesson menu.

19. Complementos do SmartLesson
–Navigational map
Block that will enable the
graphical display of the route
made through the pages, it
means through of several
SmartLesson in a course.

20. SmartLesson
• The SmartLesson is under development;
• We have developed some functions and
it are being tested;;
Soon we will make it available
to those who want
test it and we welcome
suggestions;

21. Thanks!
cadrianocardoso@gmail.com