Moodle 2.6 lesson configuration and how it confuses our moodle customers

prerequisite lesson.... that seems to be the culprit.

One of the teachers on one of my moodle sites is using the prerequisite lesson feature to add some control over how a course is experienced.  A good idea in concept, but will predicatably cause confusion to some users.

Most of the course content is stored in pages of a lesson, which is fine.  Each lesson 2 - 5, have a condition that must be meet before the user (student role) is allowed to continue in the course.

This is what the relevant part of the course home page looks like.

 When you click on Topic 3 as a student (having not completed Topic 2), you get this message from moodle.

This is what the criteria in lesson 2 looks like (in teacher role with editing on)

ITS ALL GOOD.  The functionality is working fine.

The problem I am seeing is upon completion of each lesson, the users is *returned to the course home page, from the lesson.  With instruction on the previous page that say click on the next lesson......The Lesson links are at the bottom of the course home page, out of sight!  Not great design of the course home page.

Better course page design to the rescue.

I recommended to my customer that they move the content from the home page, adding a Page resource and moving the content from the home page to the course page. - this is what it looks like now.

 Create a leaner course home page.  Move content, detail into a sub page.  Think of the home page as a portal or jump point.  Links to content do not get lost when the home course page is brief and organized like a summary.