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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

Web Page


You can compose web pages in Moodle, and also copy-and-paste HTML code from other web pages into Moodle. Web pages give you more options than any of the text document types covered in this chapter, including the ability to include Java and other active code on the page. To start creating a web page, from the Add a resource... drop-down menu, choose the option Compose a web page.

You do not need to learn HTML to create web pages in Moodle. When you compose a web page, Moodle gives you a WYSIWYG word processor on screen. This word processor gives you basic formatting icons in the toolbar. Pointing to any icon displays a pop-up telling you the name of the command:

You can see from the icons on the toolbar that Moodle's built-in editor enables you to:

  • Select the font face and size

  • Tag paragraphs as Normal, Heading, Preformatted, and Address

  • Create superscripts and subscripts

  • Align paragraphs

  • Increase/decrease paragraph spacing

  • Create bulleted and numbered lists

  • Indent and outdent paragraphs

  • Insert...