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Contribution: This article shows that today's learning technologies have the potential to make lectures unnecessary by supporting student's active learning in the classroom. Background: Despite worries about their pedagogical effectiveness, lectures remain the main instructional method in university classrooms. Introducing active learning into the classroom can be difficult due to class sizes and the challenge of providing appropriate scaffolding to individual students. This article shows that a thoughtful deployment of today's learning technology can help in structuring a whole course as a set of activities, which can improve students' engagement in the classroom. Intended Outcomes: With this full engagement in the classroom, students' affective and learning attitudes as well as their learning performance are expected to improve. Application Design: Moodle was used to design learning activities for second-year …