Read a section and move to the next lesson
How section content and quizzes look, how a section marks itself as read, and how to move to your next lesson.
Once you've opened a section — from your course page's Continue course / Start course button, a Next lesson button, or by selecting it directly in the right-hand Sections panel (all covered in Find your way around a course) — this is what you'll see and how to move on from there.
Opening your next section
Your course page names your next lesson and gives you one button to open it — Start course if you haven't begun, Continue course once you have. Selecting it opens that section's content.
Some sections include a quiz
A section's content can be plain text, or it can include one or more short quizzes mixed in. If a section has a quiz, you have to answer it before the section counts as done — the note All quizzes have not been completed appears next to the Next lesson button, which stays disabled until you do. See Take a quiz embedded in a section for how to answer one.
The rest of this article covers a section without a quiz, since that's the more common case and the one where completion happens automatically.
Reading a section
A section's content can include headings, paragraphs, lists, images, video, downloadable attachments, and quizzes, all laid out top to bottom — whatever your course's author put there. Just scroll down and read it like any other page.
A section marks itself as read automatically
You don't need to click anything to mark a plain, quiz-free section as done. As soon as you scroll to the end of its content — or the content already fits on your screen without scrolling — FrontCore quietly marks the section complete for you in the background. Watch the right-hand Sections panel: its icon for the section you're reading flips from an open circle to a checkmark within a second or two, with no toast or confirmation message. For a short section like the one below, whose content fits the screen without scrolling, that happens almost the instant you open it — by the time you can look, it's already checked off.
This only happens for sections without an unanswered quiz. A section with a quiz still needs you to answer it — reading to the end doesn't complete it for you.
Moving to the previous or next lesson
Two buttons sit at the bottom of every section:
- Previous lesson takes you back one section. It's hidden on your course's very first section, since there's nothing before it.
- Next lesson takes you to the section that comes after this one. If this section isn't marked done yet (blocked by a quiz), the button stays disabled until it is; otherwise selecting it both confirms the section is complete and opens the next one in a single step.
On your course's very last section, the button's label changes depending on what's left: Complete lesson if the course still has other work pending (like an unpassed exam), or Finish course if this really is the last thing left — see Complete a course and share your feedback for what happens after that one.
Back on your course page, the Course progress bar and the Sections panel both reflect what you just finished, and that button now names whatever section comes next.
Next steps
- New here? See Find your way around a course for the sidebars, the Sections panel, and the other ways to jump between sections.
- If a section has a quiz, see Take a quiz embedded in a section.
- Reached your course's last section? See Complete a course and share your feedback.
- If your course has an exam, see Take your course exam.
- For what the progress bar and section icons mean in full, see Track your progress across courses.
- More questions? Check the Learner FAQ.