Create a Lesson

With Lessons, you can teach to achieve significant learning results and boost student engagement.

You can also embed questions and Interactive Videos within a Lesson to assess students' understanding, identify gaps in teaching, and update your instruction on the go. 

There are three ways in which you can create a Lesson:

• from scratch
• by importing & syncing a Google Slides Lesson
• by importing a PDF file

👉 To learn how to start a live Lesson or assign a Lesson as homework, read: Start & Assign Lessons

Create a Lesson from scratch

To create a Lesson from scratch, follow these steps:

1. Click on the 'Create' button from the left navigation pane of your Explore page
2. Choose 'Lesson' 
3. Select '+ Add a blank slide'
4. To add a new slide, click on the '+ Add slide' button at the bottom left corner of your screen and choose a slide type
5. To add a question, click on the '+ Add question' button at the bottom left corner of your screen and choose a question type
   
   
   
   
6. From the left menu, you can choose to:
   1. Click on 'Slides' to explore the different types of slides you can use
   2. Click on 'Wayground Library' to import slides and questions from resources in the Wayground Library
   3. Click on 'Text' for text formatting needs
   4. Click on 'Media' to add videos, images, audio, etc., to your Lesson
   5. Click on 'Elements' to add elements like shapes, columns, etc., to your slide
      
7. Click on '+ Add Slide' to create a new slide or '+ Add Question' to insert a question slide (choose from various question types)
   • You can click on the 'Import' button to import a file to add more slides
     

Import, sync, & generate questions from a Google Slides Lesson

1. Click on the 'Create' button from the left navigation pane of your Explore page
2. Choose 'Lesson'
3. Select 'Import content' 
4. Click on 'Import from Google Drive'
5. Sign in to your Google account and review the list of permissions required 
6. Once signed in, click on the required Google Slides lesson and click on the 'Select' button
   
   
   
   
7. All the slides will now be imported. You can unselect and select slides for import by clicking on them
8. If you want Wayground AI to generate questions based on the content of the Google Slides you are importing, check the box before 'Generate questions with Wayground AI'. Jump to this section to learn more
9. Click on 'Import'
10. Once the slides are imported, click on '+ Add new slide' to add more slides and questions as desired. You can also click on the ' Import' button to import a PDF
11. To add more slides from the imported Google Slides file to this Lesson,
    1. Click on the three-dot icon () followed by ' Select Google Slides'
    2. Select or deselect the slides by clicking on them
       
       
       
    3. Click on 'Import'
12. To edit the imported slides in this Lesson,
    1. Click on the ' Edit' button. You will be redirected to the original Google Slides file, where you can make edits and modifications
    2. Once you have made the edits on Google Slides, return to the Lesson on Wayground, and click the ' Update ' button 
       
       
       
       
    3. Select if you want to update the current slide or all slides from the drop-down menu
    4. Wayground will now synchronize all the changes made to your Google Slides file with the Lesson

Import a PDF file to create a Lesson

To create a Lesson by importing a PDF file, follow these steps:

1. Click on the 'Create' button from the left navigation pane of your Explore page
2. Choose 'Lesson' 
3. Click on 'Import content'
4. Select 'Upload from your device' or 'Import from Google Drive'
5. Select and import the desired PDF file
6. Once the file gets imported, select or deselect the slides you'd like your Lesson to have
7. If you want Wayground AI to generate questions based on the content of the PDF file you are importing, check the box before 'Generate questions with Wayground AI'. Jump to this section to learn more
8. Click on 'Import'
   
   
   
   
9. Once the slides are imported, click on '+ Add New Slide' to add more slides and questions as desired. You can also click on the 'Import' button to import a PDF
   
10. These slides will be imported as static images. Click on the trash icon () to delete a slide, and click on the duplicate icon () to duplicate a slide 

Add AI-generated questions to Lessons imported from Google Slides or PDFs

If you had checked the box for 'Generate questions with Wayground AI' while importing your PDF file, 

1. Wayground AI will start generating questions based on the content of your Google Slides
2. You can either:
   • Wait for the question generation to finish, or
   • Click on 'Start editing' to continue working on your Lesson while the questions are generated in the background
3. Once the questions are ready, make sure to review them
4. The generated question slides will be placed next to the relevant content slides in your Lesson.
5. Click on the 'Start editing' button to open the Lesson editor.
6. From there, you can rearrange the slides as needed 
   
   

Save your Lesson

Once you are happy with your Lesson,

1. Click on the 'Save Changes' button in the top-right corner of your screen 
2. Give your lesson a name, and set the relevant subject, grade, language, and visibility preferences
   • You can choose to give your Lesson and image
3. Click on 'Save'

Your Lesson is now ready to be hosted live or assigned as homework! Learn more about this here: Start & Assign Lessons

Types of slides and questions available

The formats of slides supported in a Lesson are:

• Blank slides: Best suited for slides that are used in between different topics
• Title slide: Best suited for presenting titles and topics 
• Text slide: Best suited for text content
• Text and media: Best suited for a mix of text and media content
• Full screen media: Best suited for multimedia content that requires full-screen attention
• Web page link: Best suited for links (to reach another site)
• Interactive video: Great for embedding questions within videos in the lesson to keep students engaged and reinforce learning as they watch

Question types available for a Wayground Lesson are:

• Multiple-choice
• Fill-in-the-blank
• Reorder
• Match 
• Drag and Drop
• Drop-Down
• Math Response
• Labeling
• Hotspot
• Graphing
• Categorize
• Draw
• Open-ended
• Audio Response
• Video Response
• Poll
• Word Cloud

👉  To learn about the functionality of these question types, read this article: Question Types Explained

👉 To learn how to start a live Lesson or assign a Lesson as homework, read: Start & Assign Wayground Lessons

Keyword: How to host a lesson, how to add slides, how to add another lesson from library, can I import a lesson to Wayground, can I import presentations slides to lessons, can I add my slides to lesson, can I assign lessons as homework, How to use lessons