Course and lesson structure

To ful­ly enjoy and ben­e­fit from this course, you’ll need to know how it’s struc­tured.

Here’s the low­down:

The Critical Thinking Cap course

Crit­i­cal Think­ing Cap is a sin­gle course com­pris­ing sev­er­al lessons.

Cur­rent­ly, CTC com­pris­es four lessons, three of which are ready for enroll­ments.


Lessons

Lessons intro­duce con­cepts or areas for explo­ration.

Each les­son con­sists of sev­er­al top­ics.

Some lessons may offer addi­tion­al mate­ri­als that you can down­load. Most have final quizzes that you’ll have to com­plete before mov­ing on to oth­er lessons.


Lesson pages

Each les­son has its own les­son page that offers a descrip­tion of the les­son and a list of the lesson’s top­ics, quizzes, and addi­tion­al mate­ri­als.


Topics

Top­ics focus on spe­cif­ic con­cepts or areas and are designed to be com­plet­ed in one or two brief ses­sions (10 to 20 min­utes each).

For most lessons, top­ics are divid­ed into three sec­tions: Warm up, Main top­ics, and Wrap up. Warm-up top­ics help get you ready for the lesson’s con­tent and activ­i­ties. Main top­ics dis­cuss the lesson’s con­cept in more detail. Wrap-up top­ics offer sum­maries and oth­er items that help you remem­ber what you’ve learned and get you ready for the next les­son.

Some top­ics may offer addi­tion­al mate­ri­als that you can down­load. Some are asso­ci­at­ed with quizzes that you might have to take before access­ing the next top­ic or quiz.


Topics pages

Each top­ic has its own page that dis­plays the top­ic’s con­tent and links to asso­ci­at­ed quizzes and mate­ri­als.

You are cur­rent­ly view­ing the top­ics page for the “Course and les­son struc­ture” top­ic!


Quizzes

Some top­ics include quizzes. Gen­er­al­ly, you’ll need to com­plete a topic’s quiz before mov­ing to the next top­ic. (This may not be true if you’re not reg­is­tered or logged in and are tak­ing one of the first two lessons.)

Most lessons will have a final quiz that you must com­plete before mov­ing on to the next les­son.