A standalone lesson is one that does not sit in a pathway. There is no functional difference, it is just not part of a sequence.
Creating one
1. Open My Library from the sidebar.
2. Click Create in the top right, then Lesson.
3. Choose how to build it: with the Educator Agent, by copying one of your own, or from scratch.
4. From Scratch then asks which editor you want: the New editor, where you write in a page, or the Legacy editor, which builds a lesson from blocks.
When standalone makes sense
A one-off homework or assessment that does not belong to a sequence.
Drafting, before you know how the unit will be structured.
Sharing a single lesson with a colleague rather than a whole pathway.
You can add a standalone lesson to a pathway at any time, and removing it from a pathway later does not delete it.