Customizing lesson settings

In this section, you will learn how to customize your exploration settings with:

Watch this video to learn how to customize your exploration, or if you prefer reading the instructions instead, keep scrolling down.

Basic Settings

Before publishing an exploration, you will be required to fill out certain fields in the Settings page.

  1. To access the Settings page, click the Settings button Settings button in the navigation bar.

  1. Fill out the fields under Basic Settings.

Basic Settings

Fig. 1

  1. To see a preview of your exploration and how it would appear to a learner as they search in the library, click on the Preview Summary button. The Title and Goal fields are displayed in the preview.

Preview Summary Card

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Advanced Features

Automatic Text-to-speech

This setting is available under Advanced Features. The Automatic Text-to-speech feature is enabled by default and automatically generates audio from the text in your cards.

When the feature is enabled, learners will see an Audio button as they play through the exploration, which will generate a computerized reading of your card. If you disable the feature, the button is not visible to learners.

Audio button

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Tip

Disable the text-to-speech feature if your exploration content consists of multiple languages.

Correctness Feedback

The Correctness Feedback feature lets students know when they have selected a right answer by displaying a short animation that looks like this:

Correctness feedback

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  1. To enable this feature, click on Settings button, go to Advanced Features and click the button next to Correctness Feedback so that it is ‘On’.

  2. In the Editing pencil screen, you will now see an option to identify an answer group as correct in the Learner’s Answers and Oppia’s Responses section. Checkmark the box within the correct answer group. You can add several possible answers to a group if there is more than one correct answer.

Correct answer group

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  1. Save your changes. Now the learner will be able to view the ‘Correct’ animation if they input an answer you have identified as ‘correct’.

Changing Email Preferences

The default setting in Oppia is for an exploration creator to receive notifications whenever a learner submits feedback or suggestions for your exploration.

You can stop these notifications by clicking the Mute button under Feedback/Suggestion Email Preferences.

Mute email preferences

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Delete an Exploration

Finally, you can delete your exploration if you wish by clicking the Delete Exploration button button at the bottom of the Settings page.