What are lessons?

Lessons are interactive, fully digital, and turn-key. Built-in curriculum and reflective activities help your students build durable skills and knowledge employers value. Most lessons have prerequisite activities that students must complete in Xello before they can begin the lesson, like saving careers, completing assessments, or adding experiences. By automatically bringing in students’ own saved careers, schools, and interests, lessons provide a completely personalized, seamless, and relevant learning experience.

Xello provides a recommended grade for each built-in, interactive lesson based on the topic area and the complexity of the content. Like other Completion Standards tasks, you can assign a lesson to another grade, or shift the order of lesson tasks based on your district’s goals and objectives.

You can also Create a custom lesson for additional learning objectives and activities not covered by Xello’s interactive lessons. Like Xello’s built-in Lesson, custom lessons can also have prerequisite activities to ensure that students are completing the work you want them to.

If you’re looking for grade-by-grade recommendations for Xello’s Lessons and activities check out these scope and sequence recommendations.

For students, assigned Lessons will show on their dashboard in their To-do list. The dashboard is the first page they see when they log in to Xello. Lessons that are not required will be marked as “Optional”. Once a student starts a lesson, a percentage progress counter shows students how far they’ve come so they know what they have left to do.

Students can access lessons from previous grades, including optional lessons and completed lessons, by opening Home and clicking Lessons.

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Additional resources

Check out these resources to learn more about Xello's built-in, interactive lessons and how to deliver them in the classroom.