The most commonly used activity type is the Lesson activity. Within a Lesson Activity you can add both content parts and questions (with and without score).

Below you will find an explanation of all the settings that you can enable for a Lesson Activity.

1) Add content to the activity

On the Activity content tab you add content to the activity. These can be both questions and content parts.
You can add questions with and without a score here.

2) Set the correct settings for the activity

Under the Properties tab you can change the settings of the Lesson activity.

Standard settings


a) Set who will assess the essay questions
The essay questions can be assessed by an instructor or by the learner themselves.
If the instructor assesses the activity, you can also indicate whether the activity can be reassessed.

Please note: This setting cannot be changed once the activity has been published.

b) Make questions MemoTrainable after lesson is completed
If you check the Make questions MemoTrainable after the assignment has been finished check box, the questions from the Lesson activity will become available in the MemoTrainer when the MemoTrainer is enabled the learner has completed the activity.

c) For evaluation questions, show that there is no right or wrong answer
If you use evaluation questions in the activity, you can determine whether these questions should display the text 'There is no right or wrong answer to this question.'
Check this option if you want to show this text for evaluation questions.

d) Allow learners to edit their given answers to evaluation questions
By checking the box Allow learners to edit their given answers to evaluation questions, you determine whether learner can change their answers of evaluation questions.

e) Determine if the table of contents should be shown
The Show the index page option determines whether learner see the table of contents in the Lesson Activity. If you do not want to show this to participants then uncheck this box.

f) Determine whether learner are allowed to take notes in the activity
If you have enabled the option that learner can take notes in activities in your environment, you can use this setting to determine whether the learner is allowed to take notes in this specific Lesson Activity.

You first have to enable this setting on the Settings page of the learning environment. Enable the option Notes under Additional features on the Settings page if you want to enable the option that learners can take notes in activities.
The option to allow learners to take notes also should be enabled on template level.

g) Determine whether learners are allowed to discuss in the activity
If learners are allowed to discuss with each other in the activity, then enable this option.

h) Determine whether the Lesson Activity can be printed
If you enable the Lesson is printable option, learners can print the content parts of a Lesson Activity.
A print icon will appear in the activity on the overview of the learning journey.

Explanation at the start of the activity

You can add an explanation at the start of the activity. When the learner opens the activity for the first time, a pop-up will appear with this explanation.

Explanation at the end of the activity

You can also add an explanation at the end of the activity. This explanation is shown after the learner has navigated through all pages in the activity and then closes the activity.

Advanced settings

Here you can add an external ID to the activity that will generate a QR code . Learners can scan this QR code in the aNewSpring app and they will directly navigate to the activity.

3) Add learning objectives to questions

Under the Learning objectives tab you can add learning objectives to questions in the activity.
Read in the article below what learning objectives are and what you can use them for:

○ What are learning objectives

4) Add additional MemoTrainable questions

Under the Extra MemoTrainable questions tab you can add questions that will become available in the MemoTrainer after the learner has completed the activity.

5) Add conditions

Under the Conditions tab you can add conditions to the activity. This sets the activity to only become available after the set condition(s) has/have been met.

○ Adding conditions to an activity/block
○ What conditions can be added to blocks and activities?