What is the Lessons tool?

Lessons is a tool that allows an instructor to organize resources, activities, and media on a single page. You can have as many Lessons pages in your site as you see fit. Each Lessons page can be customized to suit the needs of the lesson, including links to other site tools, conditional release of items and content, student content pages, LTI tools, and more.

With Lessons, you can organize your course by unit, module, week, topic, or any other grouping that makes sense for your site.

To access this tool, click on the Lessons page title in the Tool Menu of your site.

To access this tool, click on the Lessons page title in the Tool Menu of your site.

The Lessons tool is often renamed to something else, and may appear multiple times in a given course. Click on the Lessons Page Title (e.g. Unit #1) in the Tool Menu to display the page.

Note: The default or blank Lessons page contains text and images that explain the basic functionality of the Lessons tool.

Example of a Lessons page.

Example of a Lessons page.

Lessons pages may contain any of the following items:

  1. Page title
  2. Text item (i.e. content on the page)
  3. Content links to items in Resources such as files or URLs
  4. Links to published assessments
  5. In-line question items on the page
  6. Items may be designated as required
  7. Links to forum topics
  8. Student Comments on the page
  9. Links to Student Pages where students may create their own content
  10. Links to subpages
  11. Items may have prerequisites (i.e. conditional release)

Example of a Lessons subpage.

Example of a Lessons subpage.

Subpages in Lessons may contain all of the same types of items as the top level page. Some additional examples of items you may see in Lessons are:

  1. Embedded video
  2. URL links to external websites
  3. Links to course assignments
  4. Embedded YouTube clips
  5. Back and Next navigation buttons at the bottom of the page