First off, its full of capability. Big surprise there. Just like the assignment, forum and quiz activities - full of capability and conversely ambiguity. Moodle has so many options that it gets confusion. People can do a lot of different things with moodle, including getting confused.
The lesson activity is praised by the moodle community because it is adaptive. Adaptive is good. Adaptive means flexible. Adaptive means changes depending on outcomes.
I have a customer who has a *required course for lots of people. The required course is takes by about 1000 people per year. A couple years ago, there was another requirement that someone, probably at the state level made. Lets treat everyone like little kids, we cannot expect them to actually go through the content before taking a summative quiz and passing it then given credit for taking the course. Otherwise, sly or lazy people will figure out how to pass the quiz without reading the content. But, I digress.
That is the backdrop to which the lesson activity was used to solve this problem or shall I say meet the requirement.
The course content was chunked up into 5 topics each consisting of content and questions. After successful scoring of 80 % or higher in the topic lessons - the next topic was made available. In other words, the participant could not progress from topic 1 to topic 2 until they scored at least an 80% on the questions. Fine. Moodle will allow you to add what I call constraints - things that make if more difficult to complete. The cost of adding min. score costraints is confusion, since people will become frustrated by scoring too low, and having to start over or by trying to go backward in the lesson after then get a question wrong. Since, the lesson activity does show the user after each question, their status. Anyway - if the customer wants super smooth execution, then they cannot have constraints. If the goal is to ensure people are engaging the content as much as possible, then adding the constraints makes sense.Thorns and roses. Nothing is for free. With constraints comes issues. Get it? Got it? Good.
I enrolled myself into the course today, as a student and went through a couple of the topics to firm up the behavior. It acted as expected, when I scored below 80, I was not able to proceed to the next topic. The topic was not hidden, but if I attempted to access it without getting the required score on the previous topic, I was denied access.
If I had successfully completed the prior topic, then i would simply be allowed to take it again, attempt 2 - even though I did not need to, because I could see the passing score in the topic (moodle lesson) grade reporting.
The other very useful thing that I discovered about the lesson activity today was that it keeps historical records or grades. In other words, my customer can remove enrollments on a regular basis, from the course, she can even remove accounts from the moodle, and still, the historical reporting is possible. I discovered this by choosing the Grade view for the lesson and then finding the Detailed Statistics - see all course grades.
This report shows everyone who has ever taken the course and their grades, attempts, scores ect. Very nice!
I was able to create a report that I could even export to a CSV file for reporting! Super useful!!
I wondered if any of these reporting options were new to the lesson activity compliments of moodle 3.1 ? I am going to create a CSV for my customer just because. And then send it to my other customer, who asked for this type of report,
This is what lesson 2 or 3 or 4 look like that each have a pre-requisite.
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