Lessons
Set a lesson's details, write its content in the editor, and control which classes can see it.
A lesson is one teaching unit inside a chapter of a course. It has two parts: its details (type, duration, objectives) and its content — the actual material a teacher writes for students. You also control who can see each lesson.
Who this is for
Teachers preparing and sharing lesson material.
Lesson details
Each lesson carries some structure, set when you build the course:
| Detail | What it is |
|---|---|
| Type | The kind of lesson — Theory, Practical, Lab, Exercise, Review, Assessment, Project, Presentation, Discussion, or Field trip. |
| Duration | Roughly how long the lesson takes, in minutes. |
| Objectives | What students should learn by the end. |
| Prerequisites | What students should already know first. |
| Activities | What students do during the lesson — reading, exercises, a video, a quiz, homework, group work, an experiment, and so on. |
Write the lesson content
You can add or edit a lesson's content if you're assigned to teach that subject to a class this year (administrators always can). You reach the subjects you teach from My Courses, then open a lesson. This is separate from who manages the curriculum — see Courses.
Each teacher writes their own version of a lesson's content in a rich editor:
- Format text — headings, bold and italic, lists, quotes, and code blocks.
- Add media — images, videos, and YouTube embeds.
- Insert equations — mathematical formulas, inline or as blocks.
- Attach files — worksheets, slides, or any supporting document.
Your work saves automatically as you write.
Each teacher keeps their own content
Two teachers teaching the same lesson to different classes each have their own content for it. Your content is yours — other teachers don't change it.
Publish and control who sees a lesson
Two things decide whether a student sees a lesson:
Publish your content
A lesson's content stays a draft until you publish it. Drafts are visible only to you.
Choose which classes can see it
Set each class — or each group within a class — to Can view or No access. This is how you decide which of your classes see this lesson.
A student sees the lesson only when both are true: the content is published and their class is set to Can view.
Publishing is immediate
There's no scheduled publishing. A lesson becomes visible the moment you publish it and the class is allowed to view it. To reveal a lesson later, publish it then.
Common use cases
- Prepare ahead — write several lessons as drafts, then publish each as you reach it.
- Different pace per class — publish a lesson to one class now and another class later by changing each class's view access.
- Reuse last year's material — carried-over lessons keep their content, ready to update.