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Add content to a lesson

Fill a lesson's sections with text, video, quotes, card decks, story slideshows, drills, audio, knowledge checks, PDFs and writing worksheets.

Every section of a lesson is a stack of content blocks. Mix block types to keep a lesson moving — a short video, then a quick knowledge check.

Add a block

  1. In the section, click the dashed plus button, Add content.

  2. Choose a block type from the list.

  3. Fill in its form and save.

Rearrange blocks with their arrows, or send one elsewhere with Move to section…. Change one with Edit block.

Video

Choose Add video and paste a link into YouTube video URL. Only YouTube videos work here. To skip an intro or an ad read, trim the video.

Card deck

Choose Add card deck. The deck opens with an intro card and one card already written for you to replace.

  • Edit each card's Title, Text and optional image.

  • Add more with Add card, then click Save deck.

Students see the intro, then one card at a time.

Multiple-choice quiz

Choose Add knowledge check: multiple choice. In the quiz editor:

  1. Click Add question and type the question.

  2. Fill in the options and mark the correct one.

  3. Add an Explanation (optional, shown after answering) if a wrong answer deserves a reason.

  4. Click Save quiz.

Students must finish a knowledge check before they can continue past it.

  • Scores are saved: the best try counts, and Retake works any time.

  • A score is a guide — the answers reach the student's device.

  • Require one with a minimum score.

What comes back for review

Multiple-choice quizzes, quick checks, match pairs and number practice — including the numbers students hear — all feed a student's review. What they miss on a first try returns in a later lesson.

  • Edit a question or pair freely — a student's review history stays with it.

  • Delete one and it leaves everyone's review.

  • Narrow a number range or drop a direction, and the numbers it no longer asks leave review too.

  • Remove a number's recording, and students stop hearing it in review.

Best-answer questions and true-or-false statements don't feed review, but their scores are saved like any knowledge check.

Match pairs

Choose Add knowledge check: match pairs. Write the Question, then add each Term with its Definition.

  • Keep every pair unique, so students can tell which one you mean.

  • Students line up each term beside its definition, then submit.

Best answer

One question with one right answer, and feedback for every option.

  1. Choose Add knowledge check: best answer.

  2. Write the Question, then fill in each option.

  3. Mark the Correct answer.

  4. Write the Feedback when picked for every option.

Students see the feedback for whichever option they pick, so explain why a wrong one is wrong — "half right" answers deserve the most care.

True or false statements

A list of statements. Students pick every true one, or every false one — your choice.

  1. Choose Add knowledge check: true or false statements and write the Question.

  2. Choose whether students pick the true or the false statements.

  3. Mark each statement True or leave it unmarked. You need at least one of each.

  4. Write the Explanation. Every student reads it after Submit, right or wrong.

Switching only changes what students pick, not which statements are true.

Pictures and quotes

  • Pictures — a hero banner or a photo beside text — have their own guide.

  • Add quote shows a passage on its own. To credit someone, put "— Name" on its own last line.

Text, drills and audio

  • Add text for explanation and instructions.

  • Add memory drill for a passage to learn by heart, with an optional pronunciation recording.

  • Add audio to upload or record a clip.

  • PDFs and writing worksheets have their own guide.

Language practice activities have their own guide.

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