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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

Label


Topic and weekly courses are organized into sections. Labels can help you organize material within a section, giving you another level of organization. A label can have any amount of text, images, or other content that you can put on a web page. It is essentially an HTML document. However, just because a label can handle any HTML content, you don't want to go overboard and create entire web pages in a label. A label's main purpose is to add organization to a course's Home Page. In the next screenshot, you can see that the Wild Plants course uses labels to organize course resources. The horizontal lines and Jump to a Topic, Group Activities, and Before You Start the Course: Do These Activities headlines are labels:

In our example, the course creators used text labels to organize the course content. A label can also hold a graphic. Adding a graphic to the beginning of each topic is a good way to add visual interest to a course. Also, a label can consist of a large amount of text. You...