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Simple lesson
Activities ::: mod_simplelesson
Maintained by Richard Jones
Simple Lesson has features in common with Book, Lesson and Quiz. It has been designed as a formative assessment tool. For summative assessment Quiz and Lesson have more features such as timing and access restrictions.
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Current versions available: 4
Simple lesson Version 2 for Moodle 4 (only) features:
- Supports adding questions from the question bank
- Behaviours adaptive, immediate and deferred feedback supported
- Essay questions supported (manual grading required)
- Easy to add and then automatically sequence pages
- Consists of multimedia pages with simple hyperlinked navigation
- Summary lesson attempt reports for students and teacher's
- Manual marking of essay questions, updates to the gradebook.
- Implements GDPR privacy requests for reporting and deletion of user data
- Designed for Moodle 4.
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Could you please check and let me know what settings you have for Simple Lesson. If you have Do not allow incomplete with an adaptive strategy for example, the navigation won't appear until the question is correctly answered. If you uncheck that box then the navigation *should* always appear.
Did you select a question bank with questions in it under settings? Then did you go to the manage questions screen? If so which page is blank? Also note that questions will not appear in preview mode.
A few other issues I found: the deleting of attempts seems to not work. The "manage attempts" link takes you out of the activity context which seems annoying.
Thank you for your comments, I don't think you are missing anything in settings. You don't say which version of the plugin you are using or which version of Moodle. You are correct, only the teacher can access the student attempt reports. You could allow students to do this using the permissions but then they could access every report so probably not what you want. As a workaround, students could copy their review directly from the screen immediately after the attempt if you allow student review in the settings. I can probably fix this up for you if you are using the latest version for Moodle 4.
In respect of the quiz answers, adding this feature would require considerable work but I'm not ruling it out just yet, I will take a look. In the meantime if you use an adaptive mode, students can attempt a question until they get it right. Would this help?
thanks for your quick response! I am using Moodle 4.1 and latest version v2.00.4 of the plugin. I am trying to avoid the situation where students have to manually copy their attempts into some other document - and to depend on the fact that they only have one chance to do this and everything is gone with one click! This seems incredibly clunky and a frustrating user experience, especially since I have many essay questions. I would think that it should be easy to have students access their previous attempts also when they come back to the activity later (same problem I have with the core lesson module).
There is still the issue that I can't delete previous attempts (and then can't change any grading settings). And that the "manage attempts" link takes you out of the activity context. Maybe these could be fixed easily?
Other issues I also just found: When the student starts the lesson by clicking "Next page", it shows the index (which I like), but the embedded questions are not shown on pages, it only says "There is a question on this page". When the student starts the lesson by clicking "Attempt lesson", then the index is not shown but the embedded questions are there.
I think Manage Attempts must take you out of the activity context because it works across more than one Lesson - either that or I don't quite understand what you mean.
The embedded questions not showing in preview mode and index showing in preview but not attempt mode are features not bugs. More features can always be added but when is Simple Lesson not simple any more? I'm trying to avoid the complexities of Lesson and Quiz.
I think adding review for students is an excellent idea and I will try to find time to work on that. Unfortunately you hit me just before I'm taking a large slice of retirement time (6 weeks).
The idea of having students re-attempt with their answer data preserved is an example of when the Quiz module should be used (each attempt builds on the last I think is what you have in mind). It might be applicable to a lesson that has ONLY essay type questions since the text of those are saved for manual grading anyway.
When permitted in settings (allow incomplete question attempts) students can navigate back and forth between pages during an attempt and edit then re-save their answers.
thanks again for your quick response!
If I understand correctly the button "Next page" is supposed to be preview mode. If that is the case I guess the button "Next page" is misleading and better might say "Preview lesson". I guess that can also be fixed with language customization for now, though i just realize that will change the string for the "Next page" buttons within the lesson as well and is therefore not really a solution.
I still think the ability to see the index and navigate would be helpful for students in many cases (as in core lesson module).
Still can't delete any attempts and therefore also can't change the grading settings. That must be a bug, or am I missing something?
Happy retirement time!