Building and presenting a lesson
Create a lesson, fill its modules with slides and worksheets, bring in material you already have from the Repository, and present it to your class.
When to use it
A lesson is the plan for one class: the material in the order students will meet it. Build one whenever you teach with Praktikal, even if most of the material already exists.
A lesson is divided into modules, one for each stage of the class. A module holds the slides, worksheets and comments for that stage, for example an observation slide, a worked example and a short writing task. The outline panel on the left shows the whole lesson at a glance.
Building the lesson
In My materials, click Create new and choose Lesson. It opens with one empty module.
Click the lesson title and the module title to name them, for example “Comparing leaves” and “Observe and compare”.
Hover inside the module and click the +. On the New tab, choose Slide (type it into the search if it is not listed).
Write the slide heading, open the layout menu and choose a layout such as Two rows or Two columns. Add Text or Image from the bar under the slide. Select an element to change its zone and text size in the panel beside the slide.
To add something you made earlier, click the + after the last item, open the Repository tab, search for it and click it.
Check the order. Drag items by their handle, or use the arrows on it, until the lesson runs the way you will teach it.
Click Present to set up a session, or Present now to start one straight away. In the session, the play button (Start lesson) begins it, and students join with the code shown.
Tips
A worksheet from the Repository is placed, not copied. If you edit it inside the lesson, Praktikal asks whether to Change everywhere or Change here only.
Someone else's material asks first: Use original keeps it linked and read-only, Make an editable copy gives you your own version.
Students see the same slides and worksheets on their own device, without your controls, and type their answers into the worksheet.
Turn editing off with the crossed-out pencil in the toolbar to see the lesson without the editing controls before you present it.
Keep each slide to one idea. Two zones, a picture and one sentence, read better from the back of the room than a full page of text.