From Friday Mailing 22nd October 2021

New sections have been added to the online course “Teaching with Moodle”. This includes a guide to creating labels in Moodle. There is also a section with some basic computer skills that you might not know already, but probably do, so if you want to understand URLs or don’t know what “ctrl V” means check it out.

Last week I said that labels are the foundation of Moodle courses. This is true in two ways

1. The label allows you to lay out your course, add logical headings and sub headings and add images or even videos. This means your course is not just a line of text.
2. The way you create labels uses an editor with various tools which is very similar to a simple word processor such as “Word”. This same editor appears as part of the tools set when you create other resources and activities, so if you create a questionnaire you will probably have a label for each question. So learning to use the label editor will help throughout Moodle.

Pro Tip: If you are the administrator of your Moodle site you can define what colours are available (in admin/plugins/text editors) so that all your users can access “house colours” in their labels editor. Ken