Planning a sequence of activities

It's quite normal for teachers to create a sequence of activities which reflect a range of skills.

A task-based or content-based approach is a good example of this. In their book, Doing Task-based Teaching, Oxford University Press, 2007, Dave and Jane Willis show how you might combine the following related activities:

The easiest way to provide navigation for learners to follow a sequence of tasks is to set the course view page to topics or weekly format. To do this, go to your course page, and select Administration | Settings | Format. Then choose Topics format or Weekly format.

Using the Topics format you could organize activities according to a given topic. You can hide topics you don't want users to see by clicking on the eye icon in the right-hand corner of the topic. By choosing Weekly format you can organize activities chronologically by weeks.

Once you have chosen your course format, you can set up a sequence of activities. A simple way would be to use...