(For more resources on Moodle, see here.)
Static course material is added from the Add a resource drop-down menu. Using this menu, you can create:
On your Moodle site, you can show content from anywhere on the Web by using a link. You can also link to files that you’ve uploaded into your course. By default, this content appears in a frame within your course. You can also choose to display it in a new window.
When using content from outside sites, you need to consider the legality and reliability of using the link. Is it legal to display the material on your Moodle site? Will the material still be there when your course is running? In this example, I’ve linked to an online resource from the BBC, which is a fairly reliable source:
Remember that the bottom of the window displays Window Settings, so you can choose to display this resource in its own window. You can also set the size of the window. You may want to make it appear in a smaller window, so that it does not completely obscure the window of your Moodle site. This will make it clearer to the student that he or she has opened a new window.
To add a link to a resource on the Web:
Here is the same link, as it appears when selected from the Navigation bar:
Show/Hide versus Restrict availability
If you want a resource to be visible, but not available, then use the Restrict Availability settings further down on the page. Those settings enable you to have a resource’s name and its description appear, but still make the resource unavailable. You might want to do this for resources that will be used later in a course, when you don’t want the student to work ahead of the syllabus.
Under the Add a resource drop-down menu, select Page to add a Web page to a course. A link to the page that you create will appear on the course’s home page.
When you add a Page to your course, Moodle displays a Web page editor. This editor is based on an open source web page editor called TinyMCE. You can use this editor to compose a web page for your course. This page can contain almost anything that a web page outside of Moodle can contain.
Many times, we prefer to write text in our favorite word processor instead of writing it in Moodle. Or we may find text that we can legally copy and paste into a Moodle page, somewhere else. Moodle’s text editor does allow you to do this.
To paste text into a page, you can just use the appropriate keyboard shortcut. Try Ctrl + V for Windows PCs and Apple + V for Macintoshes. If you use this method, the format of the text will be preserved.
To paste plain text, without the format of the original text, click on the Paste as Plain Text icon, as shown below:
When you paste text from a Microsoft Word document into a web page, it usually includes a lot of non-standard HTML code. This code doesn’t work well in all browsers, and makes it more difficult to edit the HTML code in your page. Many advanced web page editors, such as AdobeDreamWeaver, have the ability to clean up Word HTML code. Moodle’s web page editor can also clean up Word HTML code.
When pasting text that was copied from Word, use the Paste from Word icon, as shown in the image below. This will strip out most of Word’s non-standard HTML code.
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