Designing lesson activities
    • 01 Nov 2022
    • 1 minute to read

    Designing lesson activities


    Article Summary

    Content pages and branches

    Content pages contain a set of links to other pages in the lesson. Each link in a content page has two components; a jump and a description that the learner sees as a button. A content page can effectively divide the lesson into a number of sections known as branches.

    Within a lesson each branch can contain a number of pages and the end of a branch is usually marked by an End of branch page. Branches can be nested within each other, for example, a lesson might be structured so that specialist points are sub-branches within the main subject branch. Working on sub-branches can get complicated without a plan.

    Content pages can also be used to hold content in a lesson as a simple page with a Continue button at the bottom of the page.

    Below you can see an example of how you could structure a simple narrative with branches.
    A diagram showing a narrative structure with decision points and branching pathways showing outcomes.

    Planning a lesson

    It is a good idea to plan your branched lesson out on paper before you try creating it in Totara. There are three basic pages that you can create:

    • Question pages: There are six question types to choose from: multiple choice, true/false, short answer, numerical, matching, and essay. You can create different jumps based on the learners’ answers
    • Content pages: A page with a set of links to other pages in the lesson
    • Simple page:  A Content page without the set of links. By default a Continue button will appear, with a jump to the next page

    The lesson activity allows learners’ answers to be scored and feedback to be given. Question types include:

    • Multiple choice
    • Multi-answer
    • True/False
    • Numeric
    • Short answer
    • Essay

    Next steps

    C026 - Lesson(1)The Totara Academy has a whole course dedicated to using the Lesson activity in Totara. Here you can learn more about using the lesson activity, find out about best practice, and give it a go yourself.

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