Using Poodll MiniLesson's AI Generate tab, it is possible to create MiniLesson items automatically. (See a video here )
NB The generated lesson will probably still require some editing from you. For example you may want to set more words as "gaps" in Passage Gapfill, or adjust time limits or word counts to suit your students. But the AI Generate feature should help you be more productive. At the time of writing (August 2025) there are only about 10 template lessons that you can generate from. We plan to add templates regularly. Feel free to submit lessons you would like to set up as AI templates.
Steps
- Create a MiniLesson activity. Set any settings such as target language and transcription that you need to. The AI Generation will try to create lessons for students of the target language.
- Visit the activity's "AI Generate" tab
- Select the lesson template and configure any parameters it offers you
- When you press "Save Changes" it will begin generation which may take a few minutes. A progress bar will appear at the top of the page. It is safe to leave the page, AI generation takes place as a background task.
NB The AI generation happens in the Moodle cron job. If the Moodle cron job is not running, then AI Generation will be in the "process pending" phase indefinitely. More information about Moodle Cron.
Check it out
You can see some sample activities that AI generated here. And you can even try to generate activities yourself.