What is a lesson plan?

A lesson plan in Simulise means that various assignments are brought together. The assignments must be completed by students in the order determined by the instructor.

All instructors can create a lesson plan. The assignments included in the lesson plan must already exist before they can be added to the lesson plan.


Within a lesson plan, you can work with:

  • Assignments in a fixed order: The first assignment must be completed before the second assignment can be started.
    • Assignments can also be assigned a start date and deadline. The assignment will only appear after the start date has passed. If the deadline has passed, the assignment will receive the status “Deadline Expired.”
  • Choice assignments: Within choice assignments, a set of assignments is provided, indicating how many of these assignments need to be completed. There is no required order within this set.
  • A combination of both.

An assignment can be distributed in various ways, with a lesson plan being one of the options. If an assignment is distributed both from a lesson plan and from the assignment library, the student will receive the assignment twice.


Students can work on multiple lesson plans simultaneously. The student receives the individual assignments from the lesson plan in their assignments module and can view the lesson plan via the "Lesson Plans" tab

Advantages of a Lesson Plan compared to individual assignments

The main advantage is that you do not have to assign individual assignments but immediately assign a whole plan, including the deadlines, if applicable. This can certainly be useful for LOB or a mentoring program, so that the mentor hands out a ready-made package.

In addition, it is clear to a student what he has to work on and he only receives the next assignment when it is necessary. Assignments can always be added within a lesson plan, even if students have already started the lesson plan. However, assignments can only be added after the last assignment that students have already started.

The disadvantage of using a Plan is that the students have less freedom. They must start with the first assignment and there is no possibility to skip a assignment.
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