18. Book: connected pages in Moodle 3.3 Video Lecture | Moodle: Create Personalized Online Class - Professional Skills

Book: connected pages.
A 'Book' in Moodle is
a series of connected pages.
You can
think of it as a mini website or as a
manual, as for instance this book on a
school Moodle, which is a departmental
policy document.
A book is useful because you can include
not only text but links, images sound
and video such as a Youtube video here.
Our Teaching with Moodle course uses
books for the tutorials and you can see
that books have a block called a Table of
Contents showing the different sections
or chapters.
To add a book to our course
we first turn on the editing from the
gear menu top right and then in the
section we want to add our book, we click
Add an activity or resource.
This brings
up Moodle's activity chooser.
Book is a
resource because learners just read it;
they don't interact with it.
Clicking the
button once gives us information in the
right pane about how best to use a book
and clicking twice takes us straight to
the setup screen.
We give our book a name
and if needed a description and if we
want to display this description on the
course page we tick the box.
In
Appearance we can decide how we want the
chapters - which some prefer to think of
as pages - of our book to be displayed ,for
example Numbered.
We can also choose how
we want to move around in our book.
We
could simply have the Table of Contents
and no navigation or images which are
the arrows you see in our teaching with
Moodle books here.
They are using numbers for chapter
formatting, or you can also choose Text.
That means the names of each chapters
are shown as you can see again in our
departmental policy document which has
no numbering.
It's up to you to decide
the best one for your learners.
When we click Save and display we can
start adding content to our book and
once we've made one chapter you can see
that its name appears over on the Table
of Contents we can add another one by
clicking the + icon and then when we've
saved a second one you see there's an
arrow allowing us to change the order of
the chapters.
The Configure icon lets us
do some edits, the bin will delete our
chapter and the eye will hide it from
students.
So we can continue with our book by
clicking the + icon again.
Finally if we click on a book and look
at the gear menu we see that it's
possible to print books as pdfs,
something your students might be
interested to know.