---
title: "Create a lesson activity"
slug: "create-a-lesson-activity"
tags: ["Totara Learn", "Content Creator", "How-to"]
updated: 2025-07-22T10:52:18Z
published: 2025-07-22T11:18:31Z
canonical: "totara.help/create-a-lesson-activity"
---

> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://totara.help/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Create a lesson activity

The lesson tool enables you to create a series of screens with links between them depending on the user's answer to questions or the pathway you have defined. In other words, the lesson tool can be used for a decision-tree approach to learning. Since the learner's pathway through the lesson activity could be quite complex, it is important to plan your lesson.

Follow these steps to create a lesson:

1. Click **Turn editing on**.
2. Select **Lesson** from the **Add an activity...** menu.
3. Customise the available [settings](/19/docs/lesson-activity-settings).
4. Click **Save and display** so you can start adding pages (or **Save and return to course page** to finish editing).

## Next steps

- [Add content pages to a lesson activity](/19/docs/add-content-pages-to-a-lesson-activity)
- [Add a question to a lesson activity](/19/docs/add-a-question-to-a-lesson-activity)
- [Manage lesson pages](/19/docs/manage-lesson-activity-pages)

![Course badge](https://cdn.document360.io/a007399b-031e-436b-999a-528240e16f58/Images/Documentation/course-badge_Lesson.svg?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-06T06%3A35%3A31Z&se=2026-11-06T07%3A35%3A31Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=Smx3VXL0DwTEdC0Zcvj2EcvUFP4h5jc3Edqn613VyLI%3D)The Totara Academy has a whole course dedicated to using the [Lesson activity](https://totara.community/course/view.php?id=433) in Totara. Here you can learn more about using the lesson activity, find out about best practice, and give it a go yourself.

Join the [Totara Community](https://totara.community/) for more resources to help you get the most out of Totara.

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