Starting a blended learning course

Using the Editor and general tips

Moodle's editor is capable of formatting rich text and advanced users canget in under the hood and directly edit the code using web standards (HTML and CSS).

  • It is a bad idea to do all your editing directly in the editor. Instead,
  • Use a word processor that allows for good spelling and grammar checking.
  • Keep saved copies of these files
  • When they're ready, copy them across and paste them into your books
  • Keep the book chapters reasonably short. We don't want our users to have to scroll too much. A rule of thumb might be just a single topic heading per chapter.
  • Tools like Microsoft Word add some unexpected formatting to the pages which copies in the background to Moodle. There are tools to clean this up such as HTML Cleaner, which we'll look at later.
  • Images will not copy across at all and will have to be done manually.

The next few chapters introduces some of the important but less obvious features:

  • Links
  • Files
  • Images