It would be great if the following two features would also be considered:
1. Ability for the student to see the submitted answer for essay questions.
We use the Lesson module quite extensively particularly in our online courses and one of the issues is that when using Essay Questions into the various pages of the lesson, the student cannot go and review what they already submitted and/or review the feedback from the instructor. For a while we used the Lesson Essay Feedback add-on module which served as a workaround (not ideal but somewhat worked), but that module is no longer supported in Moodle 3 thus a slight problem.
2. Ability for Essay questions to not show up in the Gradebook until graded.
Currently, until Essay Questions are graded, the student will see an F in the Gradebook and thus panic.
FYI, for those of you wanting to figure out the lesson module, I have created an extensive tutorial from