Hello.
I am rather new to moodle. After looking through various documentation and FAQs I was unable to find what I was looking for. Maybe you can help me?
I am looking for a way moodle to automatically block and unblock lessons and material based on student progress. Is there a way to have lesson B inaccessible to students until they complete lesson A?
Maybe I am asking in the wrong forum?
Any feedback is appreciated.
Well - do you mean material on Moodle in general? Resources etc? If you want to control the student's learning path by only allowing them access to, say, task 2 once they have completed task 1 etc, then you need either to wait for Moodle 2.o which has a feature "conditional activities" which does just what you want OR do a search for "activity locking" which is a non-standard add in to Moodle you'd have to install but that also does what you want.
However... if you mean Moodle's actual Lesson activity module (as you are posting in the Lesson forum) then , yes - when you set up a lesson you see that you can make it conditional upon the student having done a previous activity. So if you did mean the Lesson module then you can do this - if you didn't, and were using lesson in a more traditional term , then the first paragraph applies but you might like to investigate the Lesson module
However... if you mean Moodle's actual Lesson activity module (as you are posting in the Lesson forum) then , yes - when you set up a lesson you see that you can make it conditional upon the student having done a previous activity. So if you did mean the Lesson module then you can do this - if you didn't, and were using lesson in a more traditional term , then the first paragraph applies but you might like to investigate the Lesson module
Hi Gregory,
Here some links to the concepts Mary has outlned. You did not say where you looked in the 1800 pages
And as Mary pointed out the word "Lesson" means different things inside and outside of Moodle.
Activity Locking - the contributed code modules (usually does not upgrade gracefully) that Conditional activities will sort of replace in Moodle 2.0.
Lesson dependency is a setting in the Lesson module. Grade is one dependency.
Not exactly what you are talking about, but in a similar manner, you can set up the navigation of pages in a Lesson module such that a student can not complete (or advance past) a "section" (or group of pages) until they answer some key questions correctly. This can be done by Jumps that are associated with choices (answers) students make. While each answer can be scored differently, the key with this concept is the jump, as opposed to a grade (say 70%) which guides/allows the student to go to a new area.
Best Chris
Here some links to the concepts Mary has outlned. You did not say where you looked in the 1800 pages
Activity Locking - the contributed code modules (usually does not upgrade gracefully) that Conditional activities will sort of replace in Moodle 2.0.
Lesson dependency is a setting in the Lesson module. Grade is one dependency.
Not exactly what you are talking about, but in a similar manner, you can set up the navigation of pages in a Lesson module such that a student can not complete (or advance past) a "section" (or group of pages) until they answer some key questions correctly. This can be done by Jumps that are associated with choices (answers) students make. While each answer can be scored differently, the key with this concept is the jump, as opposed to a grade (say 70%) which guides/allows the student to go to a new area.
Best Chris