2. Lesson settings

2.2. Flow Control

  • Note: Click the "Show Advanced" toggle button to the right if you don't see all the options below.
  • Using Lesson gives examples of how these settings may be put to best effect.


Allow Student Review

  • This puts a "Review Lesson" button on the last screen of the lesson to encourage the student to navigate through the lesson again from the start. Be sure to check other settings to allow them to change their answers.

Provide option to try a question again

  • This displays a button after an incorrectly answered question so that the student can try again (but not get credit for it)

    TIP: Leave this off if you are using essay questions.

Maximum Number of Attempts

Decide here how many times you want students to be able to attempt each question. When they reach the maximum, they will be taken automatically to the next page.

Action after a Correct Answer

  • Choose here where you want a student to be sent to if they get a question right. See Using Lesson for more details on this setting. The options are:

    • the next part of the Lesson (default setting)
    • a random, unexpected page
    • a random page which they have not yet answered.

Display default feedback

  • Choose this if you want to show a set phrase regardless of their answer. If you have set your own default feedback such as "well done; correct" or "never mind; better luck next time" etc it will appear. If you have not, then Moodle's default feedback will appear.

Progress bar

  • Choose this to show a bar at the bottom of the page showing how far into the lesson the student has got.

*Note: There are currently some issues with the lesson progress bar not displaying as expected. MDL-26016

Display left menu

  • Choose this if you want to show a list of the pages in the Lesson so a student can see what is coming up.

Display left menu only if grade greater than ...%

  • Choose this if you want the student to go through the lesson (and get a grade) once and then, on review, to be able to see and navigate through all the different pages.

Number of pages to show

  • You only need this if you have set "Action after a correct answer" to show an unseen or unanswered page. Otherwise, all pages will be seen.

Minimum Number of Questions

  • Set here the minimum number of questions that will be used to calculate a student's score. Students will be told how many they have answered and how many more they need to answer.
  • If you are using Content pages, then set this to 0.
  • If you use this setting, then add some explanatory text at the start of the lesson so the student knows how many questions they must answer as a minimum. (They may answer more).

Link to an activity

  • Choose this to give students a link to another activity when they reach the end of the lesson. (Note: this can also be achieved using Conditional activities)

Other options:

Pop-up to file or web page

  • If you want to include a link to a file on the lesson page for students to refer to, upload it here.

Dependent on

  • This allows access to the lesson to be dependent on students' performance in another lesson in the same course. (Note: this can also be achieved with Conditional activities)