Moodle's Lesson activity 

  1. Within the course page you seek to add a Lesson, ensure to toggle Edit mode on in the top right corner of the course page.


  2.  Navigate where you want to add your Lesson and click the plus icon or the +Add and activity or resource. at the end of a section

    Or
    Add an activity or resource button

  3. In the Add an activity or resource menu, in the All tab, select Lesson.Add an activity or resource menu with lesson highlighted
  4. In the editing page for your lesson input the lesson name and description, set the appropriate appearance, and select the flow control for appropriate user experience.  Other settings can be explored and set as necessary. Save and return to course to see your course home page, or Save and Display to continue working on your lesson and add content.
Name of lesson and description box highlighted
Appearnace, flow control and save and return and save and display highlighted

  • If you chose to Save and display and continue editing your lesson you will be taken to a page where you may add content.

Lesson edit page after clicking save and display

  • You can import questions in a number of formats:
  • Aiken format
  • Blackboard
  • Embedded answers (Cloze)
  • GIFT format
  • MS Word 2010 Table format (wordtable)
  • Missing word format
  • Moodle XML format
Import questions menu


  • You can add a content page:
  • You can add text and multimedia to this page as normal. 
  • Under the numerical content tabs you can write the keywords a student will click on to move to the next part of the lesson.
Add a content page editing options.

  • Once you have saved you can see your pages. 
Lesson pages, with types, jumps, and dropdown menu for additions indicated.