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Hi Deborah,
I am just leaving for a vacation/holiday. 

1. It is possible to change any word or "page" in Moodle. I believe that the congratulations is a screen.   If I have some time I will find the offending page/screen and tell you where to find it or at least change the words.  It is probably in a php file maybe moodle/mod/lesson/lesson.php.  

If you want the words to change you are going to have to be brave and learn to edit a php file. Takes a text editor or some free php editors and some searches for text.   Sorry.  I may have some time tomorrow to give you some pointers.

1b. Ditto comment about removing the grade link.  Possible but you are going to learn how to do a little programming  around text.  It is probably located in lesson.php as well.   Hey how hard can it be.  This bald guy still doesn't know how to program in php but still manages to fumble around.

2. I do similar stuff, dull branch pages with question pages at the end of every lesson just to make sure they read the material.   Remember that others may have more than just lessons in a course or even in a week/topic.   So what you are really asking is for jumps to the next activity in the logical order (just made that up).   In 1.6 you can make a lesson dependent upon another lesson.   You should check out activity locking.   This is not going to jump to the next lesson, but the next lesson will not appear until the student has finished the lesson. 

I there is a forum called Conditional Activities.  Or you can go to MoodleDocs and the activity locking page.   

I don't think I helped much. If I have time  between packing up my beach gear, I will do another followup post.  Us less than programmers need to support one another

Deborah,
1. Just fired up my Moodle 1.5.3 localhost and created a 3 page lesson, (branch, question, branch).   I did not get any congratulations message.  That would lead me to believe a setting needs to be adjusted.  But which one?

There are lesson settings, logical choice.  but nothing I switched on or off gave me a congratulations.  Note my default is to leave custom scoring on, max score 0 and min # of questions 0.   There are course settings.  See the Show Grades?  Say no.   When that says yes, a Congrats screen comes on at the end of an activity.  That solves your lesson activity issue.  But it will impact other activities in that specific course.

You are in luck, I did not spend any time finding the php file (suspect it is some type of course php file), so you can put off learning how to tweak  language that is imbedded in the  code   

I said it before, but Moodle is used by a wide range of users.  At times I still think some things are dumb, but after I see what other people are doing, my dumb list is getting shorter.

Hope this helps.  Well off to packing my boogie board, wet suit, fishing gear and drawing up menus.

Hi Deborah,

An easy way to change the congratulations text is to find the file called lesson.php found  in the language folder of your moodle in: \lang\en_utf8 directory or \lang\en
You can use an FTP program for this, or File Manager in Cpanel.

Transfer the file called lesson.php to your workstation computer. - don't forget to re-upload this in the same place later......
Open the file called lesson.php , prefferably using a program such as dreamweaver, but a text editor like word pad will do.

do a search and find the text - congratulations . (you can hold ctrl and press f to get the find function up on screen easily)... the line will look like this:
on around line 50.

$string['congratulations'] = 'Congratulations - end of lesson reached';

You can simply delete the text in between the quotation marks ' ' or replace it with something like:
$string['congratulations'] = 'end of lesson';

Don't forget to re upload this file again in the same directory, i use an FTP program to do this, but you can also use 'File manager' in 'Cpanel' or some other host file manager interface.

Getting rid of the View Grades button is beyound me and i have been told it will take a lot of adjusting of the code to remove it. I think this might be found in continue.php, but i can't remember...

 Although, you can always do the same as before - find the text - view grades , in the language file. and delete the text within the quotations or replace the text with a full stop '.' , that worked enough for me, a blank button will appear, people are less likely to push a button with no text on it .

For jumping to the next lesson you can click on the lesson you wish to modify. click on the update / edit short cut button (looks like a hand with pencil in it)
then find the part that says jump to: like this
Jump 1: This page Next page End of lesson Health and safety foundations 1.4 Common safety terminology Question 1.1 Question 1.2 1.5 The moral, legal and financial arguments for maintaining good standards of health and safety 1.5.2.1 The legal arguments for maintaining good standards of health and safety Question 1.3 Question 1.4 1.5.2.3 The employer's common law and statutory duties 1.5.2.4 Criminal liabilities 1.5.2.5 Civil liabilities Question 1.5 1.5.2.6 Application & Key differences between Criminal and Civil Law Question 1.6 Question 1.7 1.5.3 The financial arguments for maintaining good standards of health and safety Question 1.8 1.6 The legal framework for regulating health and safety 1.6.1 The role of the European Union in harmonising standards of health and safety 1.6.2 Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 and other health and safety regulations 1.6.2.2 Other key regulations Question 1.9

From the drop down menu you can select a lesson for the page to jump to after this lesson has been compeleted. Before this if you create another lesson first you will be able to find it listed in this drop down menu, click on that lesson and then click the update button at the bottom of the page.

I hope i helped Deborah, i'm no PHP expert either but this works for me.
Just post back if it gets confusing..

Steve B