What is the Lessons tool?

Lessons is a tool that allows an instructor to organize resources, activities, and media on a single page. You can have as many Lessons pages in your site as needed. With Lessons, instructors can organize the course by unit, module, week, topic, or any other grouping that makes sense for the site.

Each Lessons page can be customized to suit the needs of the lesson, including links to other site tools, conditional release of items and content, student content pages, LTI tools, and more.

Selecting the Lesson tool

Lessons are often renamed based on content and can appear a few different ways in the left side navigation bar. Below are some examples:

Example of Lessons on the left side navigation space named for their content

Lessons as links in the content area rather than the left side navigation space.

Lessons as an expandable menu in the left side navigation space.

Lessons as modules set up as buttons in the content space.

More questions about the Lessons tool?

  Add a Checklist on a Lessons page

  Add a custom stylesheet to Lessons

  Add a file from Resources to a Lessons page

  Add a Resources folder on a Lessons page

  Add a website link to a Lessons page

  Add an external tool on a Lessons page

  Add an in-line question to a Lessons page

  Add assignments to a Lessons page

  Add content to Student Pages in Lessons

  Add forums or topics to a Lessons page

  Add subpages to a Lessons page

  Add tests and quizzes to a Lessons page

  Add text to a Lessons page

  Add video to Student Pages in Lessons

  Allow comments to be posted on a Lessons page

  Allow students to add content to Lessons

  Assign an "owner" to a Lessons page

  Change the background colour of a block on a Lessons page

  Create a Lessons page

  Create collapsible sections on a Lessons page

  Create multiple sections on a Lessons page

  Create two columns inside a block on a Lessons page

  Create two columns on a Lessons page

  Delete a Lessons subpage

  Delete a top-level Lessons page

  Delete items on a Lessons page

  Duplicate the content of a subpage

  Duplicating subpages in Lessons

  Embed a YouTube video on a Lessons page

  Embed an audio file on a Lessons page

  Embed an image on a Lessons page

  Embed Announcements on a Lessons page

  Embed Forum conversations on a Lessons page

  Embed the Calendar on a Lessons page

  Enable Lessons subpage navigation in the Tool Menu

  Export Lessons content

  Import Lessons content

  Limit access to Lessons page items to groups

  Merge columns and sections to one block on a Lessons page

  Record an audio clip in the text editor

  Rename a Lessons page

  Reorder the placement of items on a Lessons Page

  Require completion of a Lessons item

  Require completion of a Lessons page

  Share video from my computer

  Share video from Universal Capture

  Upload content in a zip file on a Lessons page

  View the Index of Pages

  What is the Lessons tool?

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This page is adapted from an equivalent Sakai Community help article.

The original Sakai Community help article, unedited, is available at https://sakai.screenstepslive.com/s/sakai_help