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:
- Click Turn editing on.
- Select Lesson from the Add an activity... menu.
- Customise the available settings.
- Click Save and display so you can start adding pages (or Save and return to course page to finish editing).
Next steps
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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