8. Ideas for Using Lesson

Generally speaking, because of its "branching" nature the Lesson activity lends itself to a wide variety of activities. Not all of them need to be graded.

Here are additional ideas for using the Lesson activity in your course: 

  • Use the Lesson to introduce a new topic. The learner can progress at their own pace, reviewing what they are not sure of and moving on when they feel ready.
  • When using the Lesson to introduce a new topic, offer pages that deliver the content in different mediums and allow students to select a preference. For example, the button "Do you prefer to read?" goes to a page of text; "Do you prefer to watch a video?" goes to a screencast; "Do you prefer to listen to instructions?" goes to a podcast and so on.
  • Use the Lesson to set up situations where the learner has to make a choice each time, and the scenario changes according to their selection. This could be a medical emergency (for example, deciding upon the correct treatment), or a customer relations exercise ( learning how best to deal with an aggressive client). Lesson can also work well for exploring moral and ethical issues.
  • The Lesson can be used to create a "choose your own adventure" type of experience where the learner reads a page (or watches a video/listens to an audio file), then decides their "character's" next move. This could be used in an HR training to help guide employees to behave responsibly by taking decisions for a character who is in a potentially problematic situation.
  • Learners can be taken to different sets of revision questions according to their answers, allowing them to progress from basic to intermediate to advanced according to their demonstrated prior knowledge.