Quick-start guide

7.2. Adding links in the text of your Moodle book

You may want to add links to your course that direct your learners to a particular website for them to research, or to a specific article that they might find interesting. 

Links should always be hidden behind text rather than spelt out in full. Some of your learners may rely on a screen reader, meaning that the text in links needs to be meaningful. 

• Best practice: If you wanted to link to the BBC website, for instance, you would add a link over the words 'the BBC website'.
• Bad practice: Don't use sentences like 'Click here to go to the BBC website', with the link hidden behind 'Click here'. Anyone using a screen reader has the links highlighted separately; if all the links say 'Click here' they won't know where the links go.  
• Bad practice: Don't reproduce links in full in the text. Often they can be very long, and anyone using a screen reader would have it read out in full ('Aitch tee tee pee ess colon slash slash ...').

Say you wanted to add a link to the BBC's website in the following sentence:

You would need to highlight the text 'the BBC website' and click on the Link icon above. 

This takes you to a Create link pop-up window. 

• The text that you highlight appears in the Text to display field.
• Type (or paste) the link into the Enter a URL field. 
• You can tick Open in new window or leave it unticked, if you prefer. 
• Click on the Create link button. 

The text should now read:

So far we've focused on adding text to your course content. Now you're going to look at adding images and videos.