Managing Moodle™ “Resources”

Resources are the “content” a teacher brings into the course. These can be files uploaded to the server (that can, in turn, be downloaded or viewed/heard by students); html pages edited directly in Moodle; or links to external web pages that can be opened within the Moodle page or opened in a separate window. If your computer and web browser have been configured with appropriate “plugins” then you can include QuickTime™ movies, MP3 files, Flash files as well as uploading typical office suite type documents. Typical choices listed in the drop-down menu include:

• Compose a text page (this one is saved as a text file, “plain vanilla” information)
• Compose a web page (this one is saved as an html file)
• Link to a file or web site (download the file to disk or open a web page)
• Display a directory (Displays a “folder” in which you can have multiple files listed.)
• Insert a label (use to provide information between the links displayed for files, etc.)
• Add an IMS content package (specially formatted learning content packages)