Curriculum & Content

Curriculum is organized as Class -> Unit -> Lesson -> Content.

Content inside a lesson can be either:

• Questions, which students answer.
• Information entries, which students read or view as context.

Questions and information entries share the same lesson sequence, so you can place a short explanation before practice items.

Curriculum Hierarchy

Level	Purpose	Examples
Class	The course container for a roster of students and instructors.	Fall 2026 Beginner Ojibwe
Unit	A group of related lessons.	Greetings, Food, Family, Places
Lesson	A student-facing assignment or practice set.	Introducing yourself
Content	One item in the lesson sequence.	Explanation, multiple choice, type answer

Start from a Class

Most curriculum work begins on the class detail page:

1. Open My Classes or Organization -> Classes.
2. Select the class.
3. Use the class detail page to manage units, lessons, students, instructors, and the calendar.

The class page shows:

• Class Instructors, when your role can manage them.
• Students, including progress and access codes.
• Units, with expandable lesson lists.
• Class Schedule Calendar, using the organization timezone.

Create a Unit

1. Open the class detail page.
2. In Units, select New Unit.
3. Enter a clear unit name.
4. Add a description if it will help other instructors understand the scope.
5. Save the unit.

Use unit names that describe the learning goal, not just the week number. For example, Greetings and Farewells is easier to reuse than Week 1.

Manage Units

The unit list supports:

• Searching by unit or lesson.
• Showing or hiding deleted content.
• Expanding or collapsing all units.
• Reordering units with the drag handle when the class is active.
• Editing a unit from the unit row.
• Switching unit status between draft and published.

WARNING

Publishing a lesson is not enough by itself. Students only see a lesson when the lesson is published and its parent unit is also published.

Create a Lesson

1. Expand the unit that should contain the lesson.
2. Select New Lesson.
3. Enter the lesson title.
4. Choose a lesson icon, or keep the default icon.
5. Add a description for instructor context or student-facing instructions, depending on how the field is used in your workflow.
6. Set availability and due dates when the lesson should be scheduled.
7. Save the lesson.

Lessons appear inside their unit with an icon, title, due date, and status. You can edit the icon later from the lesson edit dialog.

Manage Lessons

From the unit list or unit detail page, you can:

• Open a lesson.
• Reorder lessons with the drag handle.
• Edit lesson metadata.
• Publish or unpublish a lesson.
• View deleted lessons.
• Schedule lessons from the calendar.

The lesson detail page shows:

• Lesson status and visibility warnings.
• Available date and due date.
• Ordered lesson content.
• Lesson submissions.

Add Lesson Content

Open a lesson, then add content from the lesson content area.

Choose Question when students should answer a graded prompt. The question dialog lets you choose the question type and the language students answer in, so the same workflow covers translation practice, comprehension checks, cultural-context questions, and audio prompts.

Choose Information Entry when students need context, cultural notes, instructions, images, or reference text before continuing. See Information Entries.

See Lesson Content for the full Add Content workflow and Question Editors for each question type.

Plan a Lesson Sequence

A strong beginner lesson usually mixes explanation, recognition, production, and review.

Example structure:

Order	Content type	Purpose
1	Information entry	Introduce the phrase and context.
2	Multiple choice	Let students recognize the meaning.
3	Fill in the blanks	Practice a sentence pattern.
4	Type answer	Ask students to produce the answer.
5	Record audio	Let students practice pronunciation.

Keep each lesson focused. If a lesson has too many new words, split it into two lessons and publish them over multiple days.

Draft, Published, and Deleted

Status	What it means	Student visibility
Draft	Still being edited.	Hidden.
Published	Ready for students if parent content is also visible.	Visible when dates allow it.
Deleted	Removed from normal active views.	Hidden from the main student flow.

Deleted units and lessons remain available to instructors when Show Deleted filters are enabled.

Preview Before Publishing

Use preview from the unit or lesson page before publishing a sequence. Check:

• The content order matches the intended lesson flow.
• Prompts show in the expected language.
• Multiple-choice answers show in the expected language.
• Audio and images load.
• Due dates and availability dates are correct.
• Information entries give enough context before questions.

Recommended Workflow

1. Create the unit as a draft.
2. Create lessons as drafts.
3. Add information entries and questions.
4. Link translations instead of retyping words.
5. Preview each lesson.
6. Publish the unit.
7. Publish lessons as they become ready.
8. Use the calendar to adjust pacing.
9. Review submissions after students complete the work.

Common Issues

Students cannot see a lesson

Check all of these:

• The unit is published.
• The lesson is published.
• The lesson is not deleted.
• The available date has passed.
• The student is in the class.

A lesson appears in the wrong order

Use the lesson drag handle inside the unit. If drag is disabled, check whether the unit or class is deleted.

Content is hard to reuse

Move repeated vocabulary into the translation library and link questions to those translations. This keeps spelling, language direction, and audio consistent.