We now have to add the drawing and illustration according to speech bubbles to an existing Moodle course.
1. Log in to your Moodle server. Remember to click on the Return to my normal role button if necessary.
2. Click on the desired course name (School) and then on Turn editing on.
3. Edit the summary for a new week. Enter
Exercise 3
in Summary and click on the Save changes button.4. Click on the Add an activity combo box for the selected week and choose Upload a single file.
5. Enter
Drawing with a digital pen
in Assignment name.6. Select
Impact
in font and5 (18)
in size—the first two combo boxes below Description.7. Click on the Font Color button (a T with six color boxes) and select your desired color for the text.
8. Click on the big text box below Description and enter
Draw an illustration of one of the characters according to the speech bubbles
. This is the description of the student's goal for this exercise.9. Press Enter and click on the Insert Image button (a mountain or a tree, according to the Moodle version). A new web page will appear displaying the title Insert image.
11. Click on the Browse button. Browse to the folder that holds the comic strip image (
C:\School
) and select the file to upload,halloweenstrip01.png
. Then, click on Open and on the Upload button. The label File uploaded successfully will appear inside the File browser box.12. Next, click on the name of the recently uploaded file,
halloweenstrip01.png
. The image will appear in the Preview box, as shown in the next screenshot:
13. Enter
Halloween comic strip
in Alternate text. This text will appear if the web browser is not capable of downloading the image. It is a required field for this page.14. Click on OK. The image will appear below the previously entered title. You can click on the Enlarge editor button (a diagonal arrow with two squares) and you will be able to view the title and the whole image, as shown in the next screenshot:
15. Close the enlarged editor's window.
16. Select
10MB
in Maximum size. This is the maximum size for the file that each student is going to be able to upload as a result for this activity. However, it is very important to check the possibilities offered by your Moodle server with its Moodle administrator.17. Scroll down and click on the Save and display button. The web browser will show the description and the previously uploaded image with the speech bubbles.
We added the drawing exercise to a Moodle course. The students are now going to be able to upload results for this activity after reading the goals and clicking on its hyperlink in the corresponding week.
We used the previously created folder, chapter01
. We uploaded the bitmap image with the speech bubbles organized in a comic strip (halloweenstrip01.png). We added a title with a customized font and color using the description's editor.
The Upload a single file activity allowed us to describe the goals for the activity using a paragraph and an image.