Lessons

The lesson editor: text, headings, lists, tips, images, video and files.

Lesson blocks

A lesson is built from blocks, like in modern editors. There are three ways to add a block:

• The “Add” bar under the lesson: click a block and it appears where the cursor is (or at the end).
• The / key on an empty line opens the block menu with search: start typing a name, pick with the arrows and press Enter. Esc closes it.
• The “+” button to the left of a line.

Select text to make it bold, italic or a link. Drag blocks by the ⠿ handle, or move them with “Move up” and “Move down” in its menu.

• Text with bold, italics and links.
• Headings at three levels to split the lesson into parts.
• Lists: bulleted and numbered.
• Checklist that learners tick off themselves, such as a first-week onboarding plan (see below).
• Tip: a highlighted note of two kinds, “Tip” and “Important” (change it in the block's ⠿ menu).
• Quote with a caption.
• Divider between parts of the lesson.
• Image with a border, a background or full width.
• Video from YouTube or Vimeo: choose “Video” and paste the link; the block is created for you.
• File to download: slides, a PDF, a spreadsheet. Up to 25 MB per file.

At the top of the editor you see whether everything is saved (it saves automatically) and the lesson's estimated reading time.

A checklist for the learner

A checklist is a to-do list learners tick off themselves: get a pass, set up email, meet your buddy. Ticks are kept for each person, and the checklist shows progress (“2 of 5”). Ticks the author puts in the editor aren't shown to learners.

To allow completing the lesson only once everything is ticked, open the block's ⠿ menu and turn on “Required checklist”. “Mark as complete” then becomes available when every item is ticked. The lesson report (“Who completed”) shows how many items each person ticked.

How a learner takes a lesson

The learner reads the lesson and clicks “Mark as complete”. The lesson then counts as complete, and “Next” takes them to the course's next activity.

Quiz questions from lessons

AI can write quiz questions from the course's lessons: in the quiz editor, click “Generate questions” and choose “Course lessons”. More: AI generation.