Hi Katie,
#1.- I expect the reason why you ask this question is that your question pages consist of a text of a certain length, such that when the student has responded to the question asked at the bottom and the page is re-drawn, they have to scroll down to the bottom of that page to see the question and their response and the feedback message. The problem we have with question pages in the Lesson activity is that the "reading" contents of such pages can display a wide variety of "length" (text, images etc.). Sometimes - as I presume in your case - the "reading" contents will be large, at other times they will be minimal. It would be feasible (although not easy) to modify the Lesson activity script (programme) to obtain the behavior you want. But, that behavior may not be desired by other Moodle users.
#2.- For your second request (taking the student directly to the next page upon a correct response) this feature may be desireable in some cases and not at all in other cases. You are forgetting the importance of the positive feedback messages in computer-aided instruction (or maybe you don't need such feedback at all in your teaching strategies with Moodle's Lesson activity).
Here is the scenario when you ask e.g. a multiple-choice question.
- Student selects one of the incorrect choices -> teacher provides a so-called "negative" feedback message which normally has 2 parts:
- telling the student why that choice is incorrect;
- guiding the student towards the correct choice (hinting, etc.).
- Student selects the correct choice -> teacher provides a so-called "positive" feedback message which may have one or more of the following parts:
- congratulating the student;
- confirming that the choice was correct (so-called "re-inforcement" function)
Note-. for the benefit of the student who randomly selected the correct choice, the congratulations are not deserved, but the re-inforcement part is essential.
I hope that helps.
Joseph
