Page resource settings

Adding a new page to your course

• From the the "Add an activity or resource" link (or, if not present, the "Add a resource" drop down menu),choose Page All settings may expanded by clicking the "Expand all" link top right.
• In the "Adding a new page" screen that follows, give your page a name and a description (which may or may not be required according to admin settings)
• Add your content to the Page content section.

General

Name

Whatever you type here will form the link learners click on to view the page so it is helpful to give it a name that suggests its purpose.

Description

Add a description of your page here. Click "Show editing tools" to display the rich text editor, and drag the bottom right of the text box out to expand it.

Display description on the course page

If this box is ticked, the description will appear on the course page just below the name of the page.

Content

Add your page content here. You can use the features of the Text editor to add media, images, links and more.

Appearance

(These settings are collapsed by default.)

Choose here whether or not to display the page description along with the page content when a user clicks on the page.

If the administrator has allowed both 'open' and 'pop-up' as display options (from Administration>Site administration>Plugins>Activity modules>Page), you will have additional display settings here.

Common module settings

See Common module settings

Restrict access/Activity completion

(These settings are collapsed by default)

These settings are visible if Conditional activities and Activity completion have been enabled in the site and the course.

Page module capabilities

• View page content
• Add a new page

Site administration settings

The page module has additional settings which may be changed by an administrator in Administration > Site administration > Plugins > Activity modules > Page.

Require activity description

This setting allows you to turn off the requirement for users to type something into the description box.

Available display options

This setting allows you to add different ways the resource may be displayed on the course page.

Default values for activity settings

Here you can set the defaults for this resource. You can also choose which setting(s) to class as "Advanced". These settings will only then appear if the user clicks "Show advanced" in the settings.

See also

• Moodle 2.x Adding Content - Page MoodleBites video on YouTube