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Hi Zack,
The problem is that - like many - you want to use a new tool (Moodle) to replicate an old one. I suggest a different approach: exploring the whole range of resources and activities offered by the new tool (Moodle) to envisage a new teaching strategy, make the most of the new tool and maybe, into the bargain, provide your learners with a better learning experience.
All the best,
Joseph
PS.- On this topic of new tools and old ways, may I recommend my favorite article once again? Colleges Should Tap the Pedagogical Potential of the World-Wide Web by ALISTAIR B. FRASER

Hi Zack,
I would pay attention to Glenys and Joseph's suggestions. Initially, I was thinking you might want Activity Lockingas an alternative toHotPot, then I realized you were switching from a higher priced LMS that basically did not have some of these advanced features.

Chico State says "{Vista}Learning modules are an organizational tool useful for connecting course content, such as lecture outlines and files to activities within the course such as quizzes, discussions, and chat rooms...so it's helpful to think of a module as a list of things to read, use, or do within a particular timeframe, such as a week, or within a course content section such as a textbook chapter.." My translation: a Vista Learning Module is a Moodle Topic/Section, absolutely not a Lesson module.

As Joseph said, you have to rethink things. I have the same issue with other LMSs, they use the same language but meanings are entirely different. I am not seeing any dependency/conditional criterion other than time in Vista, thus HotPot, Activity Locking and Lesson conditions/dependencies base upon grade/score will be an entirely new feature or tool for you in a LMS.

Give the above, I would using activity locking to set criterion for advancing, if necessary (which if the Moodle course and Vista module is supplementing a F2F classroom probably is not required). And/or similar to Vista, in Moodle I would hide and reveal elements of the course, if necessary either manually or via activity and other time/date settings available within Moodle.

You could put your outline above in a single Course section. The HTML intro is either in the topic heading, or a description page as the first page in the Quiz, or added as a resource (compose web page) link.

The PDFs could be individual resource links or they could be accessed by a link to a resource directory.

I would not use Lesson at all, unless I wanted to present (remedial) instructional material based upon a student's answer to a specific question, or had some security issues with PDFs and had a long term project to convert them to HTML pages.

Again, I think this is off topic for this forum because your post is really about how to convert another LMS into Moodle. However, the forum moderator is not going to move it, because the post seems to be an increasingly FAC (frequently asked concept) in this forum.

Best wishes in your conversion and Welcome to Moodle!

Chris