how to call a lesson that a TEACHER has carried out

Question

how to call a lesson that a TEACHER has carried out?

I need a short, precise expression which will be used a lot in the documentation of a system that I am writing.

I thought about "delivered lesson", "implemented lesson"? Would these expressions work? Can you come up with something better?

Examples:

"The modification history of the ..... lessons."

"This view allows you to display .... and planned lessons."

"This PHP class is responsible for retrieving data of .... lessons from the database "

Please help :)

Answer 1

So, I did a bit of research on Google Ngrams and thought I'll share the details. From my comment, I got a couple of suggestions that perfectly fits the context. The words I suggested were:

• Completed.
• Covered.
• Taught. (Not the best option)

I searched for the occurrences of 'Completed lessons', 'Covered lessons' and 'Instructed lessons'. The result showed no occurrences for 'covered' lessons and 'instructed' lessons.

Google Ngram for 'Covered lessons', 'Completed lessons' and 'Instructed lessons'.

I further dug a bit deeper and checked for occurrences of 'Lessons completed', 'Lessons covered' and 'Lessons instructed':

Google Ngram for 'Lessons completed', 'Lessons covered' and 'Lessons instructed'.

Lessons are generally completed or covered or plainly finished (very informal).

I'll substitute one of your sample sentences with the best possible words you could use, and let you choose the best option, based on your context.

"This PHP class is responsible for retrieving data of the completed lessons from the database."

or

"This PHP class is responsible for retrieving data of the covered lessons from the database."

Note: For this particular sentence, I would recommend completed, as it sounds a bit better. But you should try both in your context and choose the best one.

Answer 2

We would use the term "delivered lesson" when opposed to "planned lessons".

I'm coming at this from the angle of an E-Learning developer who works at a university.

Because we have both tradition tutor-led (T) lessons as well as self-taught (S) lessons, we have terminology that applies to one method, the other, or both.

• Planned Lessons: These may have been made but students haven't seen them yet. (T/S)
• Delivered Lessons: These have been given to students. (T/S)
• Taught Lessons: These have a teacher leading the lesson (not necessarily past tense!). (T)
• Completed Lessons: The student has reached the end of this lesson. (S)

"Delivered" is the most generic term we use to describe lessons that have been presented to students.

Answer 3

Lessons that are taught by a teacher are called

instructed lessons
instructed learning

Lessons which are studied by a student, on their own, are called

self-study lessons
self-taught lessons
self-taught learning

Generically, lesson learning is understood to be taught by a teacher

Instructed lessons can take the form of

classwork
lectures
coaching

Sometimes homework assignments are given to students to be handed in the next day.