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Navigate your book

In addition to the links in the table of contents, you may move through the book using the arrows located to the top-left and bottom-left of the content.

Uses of the book module

You can use the book module to present information in a well-structured, user-friendly format. But there are other possibilities. Because this module allows one to import individual web pages or folders of web pages, it is useful for group work. Example: Each student creates a simple web page about your school and the teacher, (that's you!) uploads the pages to the book. Voila! You and your students have created a useful, interesting resource for new students and their parents. You could do this to create a class cook book and nutrition guide, a resource about local civic organizations, triangles in our daily lives, world leaders, you name it. Alternatively, you could enable students to upload pages to the book - see Book FAQ for details.

Printing a book

Whole books and individual chapters may be printed either via the gear menu or the Administration block (depending upon your theme).

The print option has been improved, with printed books and chapters now having an improved display.

If you do not wish certain roles to be able to print books (e.g. students) then you can remove the capability booktool/print:print in Permissions either via the gear menu or the Administration block (depending upon your theme).

Exporting a book as an IMS content package

Any user with the export a book as an IMS content package capability (by default nobody except admins) can do so in Generate IMS CP either via the gear menu or the Administration block (depending upon your theme).

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+== Navigate your book ==
+In addition to the links in the table of contents, you may move through the book using the arrows located to the top-left and bottom-left of the content.
+[[Image:booknav.png|100px]]
-You now see a chapter and a sub chapter. Because we did not elect to number chapters, the fact that the second chapter is a sub chapter cannot be seen in the table of contents. Note that you do, however, see this in the title above the content.
+== Uses of the book module ==
-By the way, the items in the table of contents are neither numbered nor are they indented only because that is the option we chose when setting up the book. We can always go back and change that.
+You can use the book module to present information in a well-structured, user-friendly format. But there are other possibilities. Because this module allows one to import individual web pages or folders of web pages, it is useful for group work. Example: Each student creates a simple web page about your school and the teacher, (that's you!) uploads the pages to the book. ''Voila!'' You and your students have created a useful, interesting resource for new students and their parents. You could do this to create a class cook book and nutrition guide, a resource about local civic organizations, ''triangles in our daily lives'', world leaders, you name it. Alternatively, you could enable students to upload pages to the book - see [[Book FAQ]] for details.
-[[Image:Book9.png|frame|none|better and better]]
+== Printing a book ==
-== Navigate your book ==
+Whole books and individual chapters may be printed either via the gear menu or the Administration block (depending upon your theme).
-In addition to the links in the table of contents, you may move through the book using the arrows located to the top-left and bottom-left of the content.
+The print option has been improved, with printed books and chapters now having an improved display.
+{|
+|[[File:SmallPrintBook.png|center]]
+|}
-[[Image:Book10.png|frame|none|more navigation aides]]
+If you do not wish certain roles to be able to print books (e.g. students) then you can remove the capability booktool/print:print in Permissions either via the gear menu or the Administration block (depending upon your theme).
-== Using Book ==
+==Exporting a book as an IMS content package==
-One may, of course, use book to present information in a well-structured, user-friendly format. But there are other possibilities. Because this module allows one to import individual web pages or folders of web pages, it is useful for group work. Example: Each student creates a simple web page about your school and the teacher, (that's you!) uploads the pages to the book. ''Viola!'' You and your students have created a useful, interesting resource for new students and their parents. You could do this to create a class cook book and nutrition guide, a resource about local civic organizations, ''triangles in our daily lives'', world leaders, you name it.
+Any user with the [[Capabilities/booktool/exportimscp:export|export a book as an IMS content package capability]] (by default nobody except admins) can do so in Generate IMS CP either  via the gear menu or the Administration block (depending upon your theme).
-[[Image:Book-import1.png|frame|none|click on the import link]]
+==See also==
+*[http://school.moodledemo.net/mod/book/view.php?id=261 School demo example of a book used for departmental policies]
+* [https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=365807#p1474996 Moodle Books or PDFs?] forum discussion
-[[Image:Book-import2.png|frame|none|browse to the desired web page or folder of web pages and import them into your book]]
+[[Category:IMS content package]]
-Note: Relative file links are converted to absolute chapter links. Images, Flash and Java are relinked too. Remember to upload images and multimedia files as well as html files to your server, of course. Javascripts, SSI page includes, etc., will probably be lost, however, so keep your pages simple and static.
+[[de:Buch nutzen]]
+[[es:Usando Libro]]

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