Lessons
A lesson teaches one technique. See the candidate's view for what it looks like when it is finished.
The fields
| Field | Notes |
|---|---|
| Slug | Unique across all lessons |
| Module | Reading or writing |
| Group | Foundations, question types, or advanced |
| Title | Sentence case |
| Summary | One line, shown in the index |
| Minutes | Your honest estimate of the reading time |
| Question kind | Links the lesson to a drill — see below |
| Order | Position within its group |
The question kind link
Setting a question kind does two things:
- The lesson's Practice stage gets a button straight into that drill.
- The study plan will teach this lesson before drilling that question type, for any candidate weak at it who has not read it.
That second one is why the field matters. A lesson about matching headings with no question kind set is a lesson the plan will never reach for.
The six stages
Every lesson fills the same six stages, and they are not interchangeable:
- Understand — what the technique is and when it applies.
- See — it done once, worked through.
- Try — one for the candidate, with the answer and the reasoning.
- Practice — the link into the drill.
- Check — what they should now be able to do.
- Improve — where to go if it did not work.
Each stage is built from blocks: prose, steps, a checklist, a callout, a worked example, or a "try this". The example and try blocks take a source, a question, an answer and a why — the why is the part that teaches.
A lesson needs at least one non-empty stage to publish
The completeness check rejects a lesson where every stage is empty. It does not require all six — a short lesson is allowed — but an empty shell is not.
Listing a lesson you have not written
A lesson row with no stages at all shows in the candidate's index as Not written yet, with no link. That is a legitimate thing to create: it tells candidates what is coming without pretending it is there.