The block picker and the block menu

A lesson is a column of blocks: text, media and activities. Add one with Add a block here, under any block. Pick from the 20 types in Add a block, grouped as Text, Media and Data. Each block's menu holds what you can do with it.

What's on it

The name

Click it to rename the block. For a quiz, poll, assignment, discussion, audio, thread, collapsible section or chart, students see this name as its title.

Drag

Drag a block to move it within the lesson.

Duplicate

A copy below, with all its settings. A copied required quiz or assignment is a second requirement for the lesson.

Add edit note

A note about your change, kept with the block's next saved change.

Version history

Every saved version of the block, with who saved it, when, and their note. Restore this version adds the old one as a new version.

Hide block

Takes the block away from students without deleting it. It shows Hidden to you.

Prerequisites

Make something else required before this block opens.

Delete

Removes the block from the lesson after you confirm.

Rules and limits

• Changes save 1.2 seconds after you stop, and a moment later for quizzes, polls and other activities.
• Deleting a block cannot be undone from the Editor. Its versions and the answers students gave stay on record.
• A block missing something students need shows Not ready for students to you, with what is missing. Students still see it.
• A collaborator sees View only on blocks their role does not let them edit.

If something goes wrong

"Your last changes to "…" were not saved…"

The lesson changed somewhere else. Choose Reload lesson and make the change again.

"Delete a block that is required elsewhere?"

Another lesson requires it. Delete anyway removes the requirement too.

"You cannot add blocks to this course."

Your collaborator role does not allow adding blocks.