Moodle Nuts & Bolts Section 2

Moodle Nuts & Bolts Section 2: Texting!

Up to this point, you've become familiar with the Moodle environment and learned how to change some of the elements of your Moodle course. Now it's time to become proficient with using text in the Moodle environment. If you're familiar with basic word processing programs, you'll find this section is fairly straightforward, but there are a couple of areas where using text in Moodle differs from using a word processing program.

To learn all the basics of working with text in Moodle, work through the following steps.

Step 1: Moodle Nuts & Bolts Section 2

Work through the steps in Moodle Nuts & Bolts, Section 2. Be sure to open the course in a new tab so that you can jump back and forth from this course to Nuts & Bolts. As you work through Section 2, feel free to experiment with your own Moodle shell/sandbox: Open up the sandbox in a new tab and try things as you learn them.

Step 2: Import Text from Word into Moodle.

As it mentions in Nuts & Bolts, you'll often want to take text created someplace else and import it into Moodle. Let's practice this now. Open up the Word file Section 3 Building Exercise in Microsoft Word. Copy the text, and paste it into Topic Box Number 1 in your Moodle Sandbox or Shell. Be sure to watch the video segment in Nuts & Bolts on how to do this so the text comes in clean.

Step 3: Beautify your Text!

Using your new-found layout skills, make the simple text you imported into Moodle in the previous step look like the following. Specific directions are included in the text, so you can use them as a guide if you need more direction. Also, when you create the table, you'll probably have to create the table, then copy and paste the pieces into it.

Good luck!

Step 4: Let Me Know

When you've finished the previous two steps, let me know by clicking on the "Edit My Submission" block down below and posting a quick sentence saying something like, "I'm done with this assignment, please check my sandbox." I'll go in to your course and take a look.

Please contact me if you have questions, and good luck!