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Working through a course

How a course is put together​

Four levels, and they are consistent everywhere:

Course
└── Topic            a section of the course
    ├── Lessons      what you read or watch
    ├── Quizzes      knowledge checks
    └── Assignments  work you hand in

Opening a course lands you on its overview: what it covers, who teaches it, how long it is, and a Curriculum tab with the whole structure. The curriculum is the map. It is worth a look before you start, because it tells you where the assignments are before they arrive.

Lessons, quizzes and assignments all sit inside a topic and are numbered, so their order is the order your instructor intended.

The lesson page​

A lesson is the screen you will spend the most time on. It has:

The content. Written material, with images, tables, code and mathematics rendered properly. Long lessons scroll; the outline stays available.

A video, if the lesson has one, above the written content.

Tabs beside the content:

TabWhat it holds
DescriptionThe lesson body — this is the default
TranscriptThe video's transcript, if there is one
ResourcesFiles and links the instructor attached
FeedbackRate the lesson and say what you thought
RukiaAsk the assistant about this lesson

A contents drawer listing every lesson, quiz and assignment in the course, so you can move around without going back to the curriculum.

The Rukia tab​

The assistant, docked beside the lesson rather than floating over it. It knows which lesson you are on, so "I don't follow the second example" is a question it can actually answer.

The conversation belongs to the lesson. Come back next week and it is still there.

Downloading and offline​

Attached resources download normally. Lesson content itself is read in the browser.

Marking a lesson complete​

At the end of a lesson there is a Mark as complete button. Press it when you have finished.

Nothing marks it for you. Scrolling to the bottom does not count, and neither does having the page open for an hour. This is deliberate: your progress should say what you decided you had learned, not what your scrollbar did.

Completing a lesson is worth 5 XP, once.

Completing a topic​

When every lesson, quiz and assignment in a topic is complete, the topic is complete, and you will see a message saying so. That is worth 25 XP.

It is also the moment worth pausing on. A completed topic is a coherent chunk — if something in it is still fuzzy, that is the point to go back, not three topics later.

Rating lessons and courses​

The Feedback tab on a lesson takes a rating and a comment. A course's Reviews tab takes the same for the whole course.

This is read. Instructors use lesson ratings to find the lesson that is not landing, and a specific comment — "the second example skips a step" — is worth more than a star rating on its own.

Submitting feedback earns XP, up to once a week.

Picking up where you left off​

The platform remembers the last lesson you opened in each course, and the course card takes you back to it. You do not have to find your place manually.

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