Editing your Moodle: Developing a Book

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1 Editing your Moodle: Developing a Book The Moodle Book feature enables the creation of a multi-page resource in a book-like format, with chapters and sub-chapters. Books are probably the Moodle resource which is closest to a Learning Module in UEL Plus. Books can contain embedded images, Youtube videos, webpages etc., as well as text, and are useful for displaying lengthy passages of information which can be broken down into sections. Students can print the whole Book or sections of it. This guide covers: Creating a Book resource Placing content into the Book as chapters and sub-chapters Linking the Book to resources and forums. Adding a Book module 1. Turn editing on then click Add an activity or resource in the section where you want to add the Book resource. 1

2 2. Scroll down to RESOURCES, select Book then click Add. 3. Add a name for the Book followed by a description (compulsory). You can choose if you want the description to appear under the name of the Book on the course page. 2

3 4. Under Chapter formatting, choose how you would want the chapters and subchapters of the book to be displayed on the page and in the table of contents. None Titles only, useful if you want to define your own numbering style Numbers formatted as 1, 1.1, 1.2, 2, 2.1, 2.2 etc. Bullets Titles only and sub-chapters appear with bullets and indented Indented Sub-chapters appear indented only 5. By default, the same Chapter title is displayed both in the table of contents and as a heading above the content. Selecting the Custom titles option allows you to enter a different heading above the content, e.g. you may want to use a longer title than the one in the table of contents. 6. Click Save and display to continue and start creating chapters right away. Alternatively, choose Save and return to course, to view how the Book resource appears, then click on it when you want to start adding chapters. 3

4 Placing content into chapters and sub-chapters 1. Type in the Chapter title then copy in your Content. 2. The Paste from Word icon in the Html toolbar is useful for copying content from Microsoft Word while keeping the Word formatting intact. Click the icon then paste your text into the box using Ctrl+V on the keyboard or right click the mouse and click Paste. When the text appears, click Insert. 4

5 3. If required, the text can be edited and reformatted using the icons in the Html toolbar. Click on Save changes when you re ready to add the chapter. 4. The first chapter appears on the page, with the Table of contents block to the left, as shown below. 5. You add new chapters and edit existing ones from the Table of contents block. Use the blue settings icon to edit the chapter. Add new chapters using the button. 5

6 6. To add a sub-chapter, click the next to the relevant chapter, then tick the Subchapter box in the Edit window. Note that the Book module only supports two levels of content i.e. you can t add a sub-sub-chapter. 7. The example below shows the Student view. This Book has two chapters with a subchapter in the second. The Chapter formatting option used was Bullets so the subchapter appears both bulleted and indented in the Table of contents. Students can navigate through Books in two ways: browsing the pages in any order using the links in the Table of contents; or linearly using the forward and back arrows. Sub-chapters appear onscreen when the forward arrow is clicked from the relevant chapter. 6

7 Linking to Resources and Forums In order to make the Book more interactive links to related resources, like webpages, files, Youtube videos or discussion forums may be provided within the respective chapters. 1. To start adding links, click the blue editing icon next to the relevant chapter/subchapter it in the Table of contents. 2. Highlight the text you want to hyperlink and click on the Insert/edit link icon. 7

8 3. Link to a Web page: To add a web page, type or paste the address into the Link URL box. 4. Link to a Discussion forum: These are linked to in a similar way to web pages. First, get the web address of the discussion you want to link to by opening it within the course and copying the URL from the browser window, as highlighted below. Then, follow the instructions for linking to web pages, adding this address in the Link URL box. See point 7 to open the link in a new window in order to ease navigation. 8

9 5. Link to a File: To link to a file, highlight the relevant text and click the Insert/edit link icon as before but this time click on Browse next to the Link URL box, as shown below. 6. In the File picker window, click Upload a File then Browse your hard drive for the required file, type a name into the Save as box, and click Upload this file. 7. The Target field has options for how the link to any kind of resource opens from the Book. Open in new window is the recommended option so that if you close the resource you are automatically back on the chapter page. 9

10 The options Open in this window, Open in parent window and Open in top frame are probably best avoided. The resource opens, replacing the current window and so there is a risk that students will close the resource thereby accidentally exiting the course. Click Insert to add the link. 8. Click on Save changes. Links appear in the chapter text in blue (purple once clicked) and are opened by clicking the hyperlinked text. 10