3. Resource - Book

The Book resource is one of the more popular resources types due to its flexibility and simple interface. Books are used to create well-organized, media-rich, navigable course content. We've seen instructors use Books in a wide variety of ways, including:

  • Re-structuring course content to prevent the course home page from being too long. 
  • Replacing long, unstructured documents so learners can review content in the course instead of downloading a document. 
  • Delivering the course syllabus, with each section broken onto a new page. This provides better navigation, and helps ensure the students always have access to the most updated copy. 
  • Building a pseudo video playlist for courses with quite a few videos. Breaking videos across pages in a Book allows instructors to incorporate supporting content alongside the videos, while minimize loading times for learners. 

Even though the Book itself is not interactive, you can incorporate links, multimedia, H5P activities, and even links to other course activities or resources. Books can also be printed for offline use (including printing to a PDF). 

Within a Book you can create chapters and sub-chapters to help ease navigation. You can create chapter names to reflect the content of the book, as well as customize how the navigation will display to your learners.  

At the bottom of each Book page is a clear "previous" and "next" text identifier appended to the name of the previous and next chapter (or sub-chapter) in the Book.


This feature replicates the navigation features used to move between activities and resources in your course. Links in Moodle display below course items and a provided "jump to" menu means faster and more intuitive navigation of activities through your course. We recommend reviewing the navigation features at the very bottom of this page for an example.