Adding resources

Page

Adding a page enables you to create a web page resource using the text editor. It can display text, images, video, audio, web links and embedded code, such as Google Maps. Advantages of adding a page rather than a file include it being more accessible (for example for learners using mobile devices) and that it’s easier to edit or update a page than re-uploading a revised file.

For large amounts of content, we recommend that you use a book rather than a page.

To add a page, switch editing on, go to your course’s homepage and click on the + Add an activity or resource button.

This will give you a screen full of options. Click on the Page icon to open the New Page page.

Add the title of your new page in the Name field, and add the text for the page in the Page content field.

You can choose to add a summary of the new page in the Description box and display this on your course’s homepage by ticking the Display description on main page tickbox.

Will your learners need to visit this page in order to complete your course? Make sure that the Completion conditions are correct.

Click on Save and return to course.

If you want to update the text, click on the icon of three vertical dots next to the page and click on Edit settings from the drop-down menu.

Adding links between pages

Unlike the navigation between pages in a Moodle book, a page does not have automatic navigational links to the next or previous page on your course homepage. If this is what you need, you will need to manually add links between pages if this is what you need.

You can do this either by setting up a text or button link to the next or previous page.

Say you have two pages; let’s call them Page 1 and Page 2. If you want a link from Page 1 to Page 2, you would click on the title of Page 2 and copy Page 2’s URL from the browser.

Click on the icon of three vertical dots next to Page 1 and click on Edit settings from the drop-down menu.

Scroll down to the Page content box and decide where you want your link to the next page to appear. The simplest navigational choice for your learners would be to have it on a new line at the bottom of the page.

The usual convention for a link to the next page is to write ‘Next: [page title]’. So a link at the bottom of Page 1 to get to Page 2 would be ‘Next: Page 2’.

Highlight the text you have typed in for the next page link. Go to Insert/Link in the text editor’s menu or click on the Link icon.

This will open a new pop-up window with the heading Create link.

The text you highlighted will appear in the Text to display field.

Paste the URL that you copied from Page 2 into the Enter a URL field and click on Create link. The Page content box will now show that the link to the next page is a hyperlink.

Click on Save and return to course.

Now if you go to Page 1 you’ll see the link to the next page. You can use the same method for adding links to previous pages.