- 06 Aug 2024
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Designing lesson activities
- Updated on 06 Aug 2024
- 1 minute to read
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.
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
- Create a lesson activity
- Add content pages to a lesson activity
- Add a question cluster to a lesson activity
- Import questions into a lesson activity
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.