NMT Moodle 1.9 Instructor's Guide |  |
NMT Moodle 1.9 Instructor's Guide | |
Some of your course content may be represented as a file
such as a PDF, a presentation such as a .ppt file, or an image.
Before posting files that have a proprietary format (such as MS Word or Excel spreadsheet), consider that a few students out there may run one of those other operating systems and might not be able to see some types of files.
For spreadsheets and documents, PDF is probably the best choice for universal access, since the Acrobat Reader is free for downloading.
To add a link to an item of content such as this, first insure editing is turned on (see Section 6, “Adding content to your course”).
Procedure 6. Adding a file link
Locate the block where you want to add the content. If it pertains to the course in general, add it to the first block, otherwise add it to the relevant week or topic block.
In the relevant block, click its pull-down menu, and select .
In the Name field, enter a short descriptive name so the student will know what they are asking for.
If you wish, enter a description of the content in the Summary editing area.
To add a link to an external web page, enter its URL in the field labeled Location.
To link to a file, click the button labeled . You will need to use Moodle's file browser to move a copy of the file into Moodle; see Section 8, “Moodle's file manager”. When you have the file inside Moodle, click its link in the file table under the Action column.
Click on .
You will see a link to the file or page you just added.
To delete a file or web link, click on the
next to its content link.