Resources: Difference between revisions

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A resource is an item that a teacher can use to support learning, such as a file or link. Moodle supports a range of resource types which teachers can add to their courses. In edit mode, a teacher can add resources via the 'Add an activity or resource' link. Resources appear as a single link with an icon in front of it that represents the type of resource.

Administrators can decide whether or not to force teachers to add descriptions for each resource by enabling or disabling a site-wide setting in Administration > Plugins > Activity modules > Common settings.

Book - Multi-page resources with a book-like format. Teachers can export their Books as IMS CP (admin must allow teacher role to export IMS)
File - A picture, a pdf document, a spreadsheet, a sound file, a video file
Folder - For helping organize files and one folder may contain other folders
IMS content package - Add static material from other sources in the standard IMS content package format
Label - Can be a few displayed words or an image used to separate resources and activities in a topic section, or can be a lengthy description or instructions
Page - The student sees a single, scrollable screen that a teacher creates with the robust HTML editor
URL - You can send the student to any place they can reach on their web browser, for example Wikipedia

Managing resources in several languages

The restriction by language availability condition additional plugin makes it easy to show an English resource only to English users and an activity in French only to French speaking students. See this forum thread for an example.

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-{{Help files}}
+{{Managing a Moodle course}}
+A resource is an item that a teacher can use to support learning, such as a file or link.  Moodle supports a range of resource types which teachers can add to their courses. In edit mode, a teacher can add resources via the 'Add an activity or resource' link.
+Resources appear as a single link with an icon in front of it that represents the type of resource.
-Moodle supports a range of different resource types that allow you to insert almost any kind of web content into your courses.
+Administrators can decide whether or not to force teachers to add descriptions for each resource by enabling or disabling a site-wide setting in ''Administration > Plugins > Activity modules > Common settings''.
-==Creating a text page==
+*[[Book module|Book]] - Multi-page resources with a book-like format. '' Teachers can export their Books as IMS CP'' (admin must allow teacher role to export IMS)
+*[[File resource|File]] - A picture, a pdf document, a spreadsheet, a sound file, a video file
+*[[Folder]] - For helping organize files and one folder may contain other folders
+*[[IMS content package]] - Add static material from other sources in the  standard IMS content package format
+*[[Label]] - Can be a few displayed words or an image used to separate resources and activities in a topic section, or can be a lengthy description or instructions
+*[[Page]] - The student sees a single, scrollable screen that a teacher creates with the robust HTML editor
+*[[URL resource|URL]] - You can send the student to any place they can reach on their web browser, for example Wikipedia
-This type of resource is a simple page written using plain text.
+==Managing resources in several languages==
+The [https://moodle.org/plugins/availability_language restriction by language ] availability condition additional plugin makes it easy to show an English resource only to English users and an activity in French only to French speaking students. See [https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=345816 this forum thread] for an example.
-A number of formatting types are available to help turn your plain text into nice-looking web pages. [[Formatting options|More about these text formats]]
+==See also==
-==Creating a web page==
+*[[Resources FAQ]]
-This sort of resource makes it easy to develop a complete single web page within Moodle, especially when you are using Moodle's WYSIWYG HTML editor.
+[[Category:Resource]]
-The page is stored in the database, not as a file, and you have a lot of freedom to do almost anything you like using HTML, including Javascript.
+[[es:Recursos]]
+[[eu:Baliabideak]]
-==Linking to a file or web site==
+[[fr:Ressources]]
+[[de:Arbeitsmaterialien]]
-This resource type allows you to link to any web page or other file on the public web. It also allows you to link to any web page or other file that you have uploaded into your course files area from your own desktop computer.
-Normal web pages are simply displayed as they are, while multimedia files are dealt with more intelligently and may be embedded within a web page. For example, MP3 files will be displayed using a built-in streaming player, as will movie files, flash animations and so on.
-There are many options for displaying your content in popup windows, framed windows and so on.
-In particular, if your resource is a web application or other type of content able to accept parameters, you can choose to send information to your resource such as the user's name, their email, the course they are currently in, and so on.
-==Displaying a directory==
-The directory resource can display a whole directory (and its subdirectories) from your course files area. Students can then browse and view all those files.
-==Inserting a label==
-Labels are a little different from other resources because they are text and images that are actually embedded directly among the other activity links in the course page.
-{{Resources}}
-[[Category:Teacher]]

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Resources: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 14:21, 27 January 2017

Managing resources in several languages

See also