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Moodle 1.9 E-Learning Course Development

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Moodle 1.9 E-Learning Course Development

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Moodle 1.9
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
10
Extending and Administering Moodle
Index

What Kinds of Static Course Material Can Be Added?


Static course material consists of resources that the student reads, but doesn't interact with. It is added from the Add a resource... drop-down menu. Using this menu, you can create:

  • Text pages

  • Web pages

  • Links to anything on the Web

  • A view into one of the course's directories

  • A label that displays any text or image

  • Multimedia files

Links to these resources appear where you add the resource. The one exception is the label, which doesn't display a link. Instead, it displays the actual text or image that you put into the label.

The example shown here is Topic 4 of our sample course, Flowers. The descriptive text immediately below Flowers is the topic summary, which was entered when the topic was created.

Below that, you can see a picture of a Dandelion flower. This picture was added as a label. The label can contain any text or picture that you want. However, you probably want to keep your labels small so that they don't dominate the course's Home...