Edit course lessons

Courses are made up of multiple lessons. You can set up a lesson with a title, preview text, slug, passing percentage, text, videos, images, and questions.

Before you begin

Remember to click Save at the top of the page before going to a different tab in the editor. Otherwise, you’ll lose your changes.
If you can’t edit something, it might be locked because the course has started. See Why does lesson editing lock?

Who can edit lessons?

Create a new lesson

In the Lesson Plan tab, select Create a lesson.
Give the lesson a Title.
The slug is automatically created based on the title. You can edit it if you want to.
Select Save.
The new lesson appears at the bottom of the list.
Select the Settings icon to open the lesson editor.

Creating a lesson.

Add a title, slug, and preview text

In the lesson editor, fill out these fields:

Title: Learners see this on the lesson page and in the list of all lessons on the course home page.
Preview text:
Slug: This was created automatically when you created the lesson, but you can change it if you want.

An example course home page with lesson titles and preview text.

Set up grading

Lessons can be graded or ungraded and have a passing percentage. Ungraded lessons aren’t included in the total course grade calculation. See Edit course grading settings for a complete guide to course and lesson grading.

Add lesson content: Banner image, description, and lesson parts

Banner image

To upload an image:

Go to the lesson editor.
Either select the Banner Image section or drag and drop an image into the designated area.
Select + to upload an image from your computer.
1. Once uploaded, you can edit any image in the following ways:
  - You can change the aspect ratio to one of the following: 1:1, 4:3, 16:9, 3:4, 9:16.
  - You can zoom into or out of the image.
  - You can straighten the image.
Select Save.

Image size (w x h):

Description

In the lesson editor, edit the Description field. There are many editing tools, similar to Microsoft Word or Google Docs. Below are instructions for some we find useful.

Question (Lesson part)

In the lesson editor, select Create a lesson part then select Question. Fill out these settings:

Question Title:
Description:
Question Type: See the table below for details.
Answers: The answers that learners will choose from. Not all questions have answers (see the table below for details). For those that do, select Add Answer and type Answer Text for each answer you create.
Score: The points that learners earn for answering the question correctly. If there isn’t a correct answer, they earn points for any answer. See Edit course grading settings for a complete guide to course and lesson grading.

When you’re done, double-check the Question Preview to see what learners will see. Then select Save.

You can choose from the following types of questions.

Video (Lesson part)

Videos added as lesson parts have pause/play, rewind, and restart controls. (Learners can only fast-forward once they complete the lesson.) Progress on these videos is tracked in analytics and you can require learners to watch a certain percentage of the video.

In the lesson editor, select Create a lesson part, then select Video. Fill out these settings:

Video Title:
Mp4 Upload:
Drag and drop, or browse your local files to upload and select Mp4 files of sizes up to 10GB. Non-MP4 files are not supported, and error messages pop up for those invalid file types. The uploaded video files are hosted on Amazon IVS.
Video URL:
% Required to Watch:
How much of the video learners must watch before going to the next lesson. You can select from increments of 10. (For example: 0%, 10%, 20%…)

Blurb (Lesson part)

Blurbs are a space for text, images, HTML, and other media.

In the lesson editor, select Create a lesson part then select Blurb. Fill out these settings:

Title:
Description: This is the blurb’s content. There are many editing tools, similar to Microsoft Word or Google Docs. Below are instructions for some we find useful.

Resource (Lesson part)

In the lesson editor, select Create a lesson part then select Resource. Select Add Resrouce in the next window and fill out these settings:

Title: 67 characters max. Give your resource a title learners can see when viewing and interacting with it.
Description: 78 characters max. Give your resource a description learners can see when viewing and interacting with it.
Image: Size (w x h): 800 × 450 px. Select the gray box or select and drag to add a cover
Upload: Select Upload File to choose from files on your device.

Edit, reorder, or delete lesson parts

In the lesson editor, click and drag lesson parts (questions, videos, and blurbs) to reorder them.

Select the Settings icon to edit it. Select the Delete icon to delete it.

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