Adding Resources
Resource types enable almost any kind of web content to be inserted into the course.
- Book is a multi-page resource in a book-like format, with chapters and subchapters, useful for displaying lengthy information.
- File provide a downloadable Word document, a PDF, an Excel spreadsheet or PowerPoint slides as a course resource.
- Heading enables text and optional icons to be inserted among activities on the course page.
- Label enables text and multimedia to be inserted into the course page between links to other resources and activities.
- Page can display text, images, sound, video, web links and embedded code, such as Google maps.
- Subpage no longer available to add. Existing subpages are still visible in courses on the site.
- URL The URL module enables a teacher to provide a web link as a course resource.
1. Add a book
1.11. Export book to Microsoft Word
The export function gives you a Word version of the Moodle book (obviously without the interactive or video content which won’t play in Word). This can be useful for the following purposes:
- Providing Word versions of the content to those who cannot access it in a draft course, for example people you are working with on a project who need to help with amendments to the content
- Learners cannot see the export to Word function. However you can use it to provide learners with a downloadable ALT format of the course content as follows: you download the content as a Word file then upload that Word file to the course clearly labelling it as a version which learners could download to read offline. You could also convert the downloaded Word version to a PDF version for upload to the course.
To export your Moodle book to Word:
- In the book administration menu, click on the ‘export book to Microsoft Word’ option. Alternatively, you could click on ‘export chapter to Microsoft Word’ if you only want to export a chapter, not the whole book.
- The file will download.
- Please note, the formatting in the file will probably revert to Arial for the headings and Times New Roman for the paragraphs, you could reformat the Word file to another font if you wish.