How to Create a Lesson

In this article we will show you how to create a lesson, and then attach that lesson to a course.

Remember from the “How to create a course” article, a course consists of the following structure:

• Creating a Course (the course name, settings, price etc)
• Attaching Lessons to the previously created Course.

We are therefore going to concentrate on how to create a lesson, and then how to attach it to your course.  We will presume you have already created your course, if you have not, look up the “How to create a course” article first, and follow the instructions.

HOW TO CREATE A LESSON

You can create lessons in two different ways:

1. You can go to menu item CREATE ONLINE COURSES > LESSONS.  Then click the ADD NEW button.  OR
2. You can add new lessons while adding or editing the Course itself. When you add or edit a Course (menu item CREATE ONLINE COURSES > COURSES.  Then click ADD NEW for a new Course, or “edit” for an existing course), scroll to the Course Curriculum panel, write the title for the Lesson and press Enter.  This creates a new BLANK lesson.  You can then click on the edit icon (pencil icon) to edit the lesson in a new tab OR you can go to menu item CREATE ONLINE COURSES > LESSONS.  From there you will see your blank Lesson in the list, select ‘edit’ to start giving it content.

HOW TO WRITE CONTENT (AND PROVIDE MEDIA CONTENT) FOR A LESSON

A Lesson consists of several simple components, all you have to do is fill them in:

• Title
  • The title of our Lesson
• Content
  • This is where you provide the main information you wish to convey in your lesson.  It supports both text and media.
    • TEXT – Simply use the text editor provided to create the content of your Lesson.  It should be self-explanatory, like a simplified version of Microsoft Word.  Menu items allow for different formatting, fonts, sizes, colours, etc.  You can also add tables and fax-buttons (items that look like buttons, but are essentially just website-url-links in the visual wrapper of a button-design).
    • MEDIA –  You can also add media to your Lesson content.  You can add multiple media items to each lesson.  For example, you could have 10 photos and/or 4 individual videos in a single lesson.  There are two ways to add media:
      • First (RECOMMENDED WAY): You can also add videos by pasting the video URL (say from Youtube or some other online platform) to the lesson content.  To do this, in your text edit, go to the INSERT menu item, select the MEDIA submenu item.  Paste in your URL for your lesson (for example ‘https://www.youtube.com/abc123def456ghi789’).  Click OK
      • Second: Upload your video to your Honeycomb Go’s media library. To do so, go to menu item MEDIA & LAYOUTS > MY MEDIA LIBRARY.  Select the “Add Media” button to add the videos to the lesson content.  IMPORTANT NOTE:  Your Honeycomb Go media library has both an individual upload limit and a overall ‘total space’ storage limit for media.  If you are intending to add large videos to your Media Library, you should note that your Media Library limits will not allow these.  At the time of writing this article, the max upload size for a 480p (SD) video is APPROXIMATELY 10 mins or 720p (HD) 4 minutes.  These are estimates only and should not be used as  exact values, every video is different.  To see what that limit is for your plan, search “media storage limits” in this Support site.

      As stated above, WE RECOMMEND YOU USE THE FIRST WAY, it will provide faster load speed for your video content, but more importantly it will allow you to use larger/longer video/media lessons ,as they will not be constrained by your Honeycomb Go plan’s media upload mb limit.

• Settings
  • Duration – Here you can set the duration (which is simply a publicly displayed value in minutes/hours/days/weeks) for how long you believe the lesson would take to complete.
  • Preview – If you tick this tickbox, the lesson will be FREELY available to view in your public Online Store.  This can be a great way to give potential customers an idea of why they should buy your Course.

• Once you have completed your Lesson, you can click PUBLISH to save it.  You can go back and edit it at any time.

HOW TO ASSIGN A LESSON TO A COURSE

As stated above, you need to assign a Lesson to a preexisting Course.  So, provided you have already created your course, follow these instructions to assign the Lesson to that Course.  If you have not created a Course yet, search for “How to Create a Course” in this Support Site.

To assign a Lesson to a Course:

• If you created your lessons (as blank lessons) during the creation of your Course, your lessons will already have been assigned to your Course.  You will not need to do anything.
• If you did not create your lessons (as blank lessons) during the creation of your Course, you will need to edit your Course.  Go to menu item CREATE ONLINE COURSES > COURSES.  Edit the relevant Course.  Locate the Courses Curriculum panel.  Click on the “Select items” button, then choose the lessons you want to add to the Course (note that you can only add lessons not yet assigned to any other course ) and click “Add”.  Locate the Update course panel (on a desktop computer it is in the top right position of the page), and Update your Course to save your changes.