Create lessons to organize course content

Edjet LMS Server 6.4

Create lessons to organize course content

Edjet LMS courses are structured into lessons of various types, which are used to divide the course content into smaller pieces.

Lesson types

Edjet LMS support a wide variety of lesson types, so you can choose the format that best suits the learning needs of your learners.

Here are the different types of lessons you can create in Edjet LMS:

Rich text – formatted text, tables, images, media and more
Video – MP4, WebM and Ogg videos hosted on Edjet LMS
Presentation – PowerPoint PPT and PPTx files hosted on Edjet LMS
Document – PDF, DOC, DOCx, XLS and XLSx files hosted on Edjet LMS
SCORM – ZIP archive - interactive module created using authoring tool like Adobe Captivate, Articulate Storyline and HTML5, hosted on Edjet LMS
Image – responsive JPG, JPEG, PNG and GIF image
Audio – WAV, MP3, and OGG audio
YouTube – video hosted on YouTube
Vimeo – video hosted on Vimeo
Test – test created in Edjet LMS
Custom code – embed any custom frontend code or any 3rd party service code

The most effective courses use a mix of different formats to convey each message in the most engaging way. The three most favorite formats are text article, video lesson and test.

Organize lessons in your course

Edjet LMS offer a flexible way of organizing your course content. It is up to you and requirements of your course, how your course will be organized.

Flat outline

Most basic course design will be to divide the course content into topics, where each topic is represented by a lesson. Lessons are organized as a flat list of lessons. This is very similar to a PowerPoint presentation.

Example of the simple course design with a flat outline:

Course

├── Lesson       // Topic "A" lesson

├── Lesson       // Topic "B" lesson

├── Lesson       // Topic "C" lesson

├── Lesson       // Topic "D" lesson

├── ...          // ...

└── Lesson       // Topic "M"

However the number of the lessons is not limited, you should keep in mind the reasonable amount of lessons is around 50.

Tree outline

If your course require a more advanced design, you can use sub-lessons to create a 2 level structure.

Example of the advanced course outline:

Course

├── Lesson              // Topic "A" intro

│   ├── Sub-lesson      // Topic "A" lesson 1

│   ├── Sub-lesson      // Topic "A" lesson 2

│   ├── Sub-lesson      // Topic "A" lesson 3

│   ├── ...             // ...

│   └── Sub-lesson      // Topic "A" lesson n

├── Lesson              // Topic "B"

├── Lesson              // Topic "C"

├── Lesson              // Topic "D"

├── ...                 // ...

└── Lesson              // Topic "X"

However you can create more than 2 levels, we recommend to limit the outline to maximum of 3 levels. If you need to accommodate more content, please consider creating more courses.

Notes

New lesson is added to the same level as initially selected lesson.
You can navigate existing lessons using lessons panel on the left.

Learn how you can rearrange lessons within your course.

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Edjet LMS Server 6.4