Building & Editing Your Course - Go Further
This book contains additional ideas for incorporating content and activities into your courses you should consider using. Remember: This course is designed to be an introduction. For more advanced ideas, activities, and resources, please review our Advanced Usage of Moodle™ course.
1. Introduction to Activities & Resources
Course content in Moodle™ is organized into two groups: “Resources” and “Activities.”
Activities are dynamic and interactive tools for use within your course. By nature, they require the student to actively engage with them. Forums, glossaries, assignments, and quizzes are all examples of activities.
Resources are passive content provided as informational supports for your course, and includes items like files, URLs, folders, and books. Both of these activity types are valuable tools for the course creator and should be utilized in order to create a rich, dynamic course.
The rest of this book will focus primarily on resources, including how to create media in your course, as well as embed external content.