Sakai: Lessons

Lessons

Lessons is a flexible tool for adding content to your Sakai site.

• With the Lessons tool, you can share all kinds of content with students, including web links, documents, videos, and links to assignments, tests/quizzes, and forums.
• You can also create weekly subpages to organize your content, so students can find the week's materials and assignments all together in one place.

If you're teaching an online or hybrid course, it's important to use the Lessons tool to organize the content for each week of the course. (The Lessons tool can be useful for face-to-face courses as well.)

Basics

• Sakai Lessons Basics: Create Subpages/Add Text and Links Video | Handout
• Getting Started with the Lessons Tool (Duke University) Instructions | Video
• How to link to an assignment, test/quiz, or forum topic from a Lessons page

Working with Sections and Columns

• How do I create multiple sections on a Lessons page?
• How do I create two columns on a Lessons page?
• How do I merge columns and sections to one block?

Interactive Features

Checklist

With the new Checklist feature, instructors can add a "to-do" list to any Lessons page, which helps students stay on track and allows instructors to view the their progress.

• How to create a checklist in Lessons (UNC) Instructions | Video

Question

Instructors can add a Multiple Choice or Short Answer question directly to a Lessons Page. The questions can be graded or used for polling.

• How to add a question to a Lessons page

Student Content (aka Student Pages)

The Student Content feature in Lessons is a great for student projects. If you enable this feature, students (or groups) will be able to create their own pages in Lessons, containing text, web links, pictures, videos, and links to documents.

• How to allow students to add content to Lessons

• Sakai Lessons Basics: Create Subpages/Add Text Video | Handout
• Build a Well-Designed Subpage Video | Handout
  • Find out how to add Headings, Due Dates, Textbook info to your subpage plus
  • Add links to documents and web sites; Display YouTube videos and
  • Add links to Tests & Quizzes, Forums/Topics, and Assignments.
• How to Organize Lessons and your Course video | Handout
• Lessons (Lesson Builder) (Rutgers)

Lessons and Course Design Tips

• Tips for using Sakai Lessons

Lessons Student Projects (Student Pages)

• What are Student Pages? Are they for Student Projects? (Durham Tech Instructional Technologies Blog)
• For Instructors: How to Set up Student Pages in Sakai Handout

This handout provides the steps to add Lessons to your course, add Student Pages to Lessons, and optionally, allow students (and instructors) to comment on Student Pages. The handout also reviews how to view student work and add your comments. Note: Both instructor and student comments are visible to all students, as are the student pages.

• For Students: How to work with Student Pages Handout

The handout provides students with step-by-step instructions for how to create your Student Page (and rename it), find and display a YouTube video, create and display a link to a web page, add text and headings to your Student Page, reorder items on your Student Page, find and display an image effectively, and add a link to a document.

• Link to Help for Students: Working with Student Pages information