Let’s use the standard Adapt demo as an example found here: https://www.adaptlearning.org/index.php/adapt-showcase/

index.html presents four menu items. A menu item, when clicked, can lead to a page that is comprised of components (Accordion, Text, Matching, etc) that present content. For example, clicking on the Presentation Components menu item leads to a page populated with various components that been nested within the structure of articles and blocks.

But clicking on a menu item doesn’t have to lead to a single page. It can lead to another set of menu items—a submenu. Each of the menu items in the submenu can lead to either a page or another submenu. This is not demonstrated in the standard Adapt demo.

Menus & submenus are used for categorizing or grouping pages. Pages are used for presenting content.

Menus & submenus typically accept title, body text, a graphic, and sometimes an estimated duration for completion and a progress indicator. These are used to describe the content that is accessed by clicking the menu item. But menus don’t typically accept articles, blocks, or content components.

If you create four pages, you should expect to see four menu items.

If you decided, however, that two of the four pages should be grouped together, you could create two page and one submenu. From the submenu, create two pages. You would have four pages on which to present content. But upon entering the course, the learner would see three menu items: two lead to a single page and one leads to a submenu with two more options.