Hi this is Russell Stannard from teachertrainingvideos.com I don't know if
you're a user of Moodle and sometimes suffer from really not being able to make it look good to get
the design and navigation right if you are one of those people this is the video for you this is a
two part series part one is up on the screen now I'm also down in this description this is actually
part two now in part two I'm going to show you the book format and most teachers simply don't
understand it so what I'm gonna do is if you carry on watching this video for a second i'm gonna demo
a real example of the book format in action and then afterwards i'm gonna show you how to do it
really can improve the navigation and access to your site really hope you liked the video if you
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me on my YouTube channel right let's start we're gonna start by looking at a real example of Moodle
using the book book format and then afterwards I'm going to show you how to do it let's get started
so let's take a look at the book book format what we've got here is a course with unit 1 and then we
got unit 2 and what I was showing you in first part of the video was how to make all this and
kind of look nice and how to put the video in and how to set the size of it now I want to show you
is that when the students are working through the content they watch the video then they go to the
first unit and they click here and they actually come in to like a book and it goes page by page so
we good page here then the next page and then the next page and this is actually part of the back
book format it has this navigation built into it and it only requires really one little trick and
that is i always have a little button that will allow me to jump back again and then I could
go to for example unit two and then do exactly the same go to the learning content click on it
into the unit click through the pages okay come back if I need to all the content in the pages
and when I've worked through the content I can jump back to the home page it's a really simple
system but it just makes the organization of the content really simple and it allows basically for
all the learning content to be here and then the activities to be here so let me take you through
how you could do that so we got this course here that I was developing in the first part of this
video and you can see that we've got a nice kind of header then we've got the obviously
the topics subheadings here then I embedded a video and now underneath what I want to do is
I want to add the book format so what I'm going to do is click on activity or resource and what
we're really looking for is a resource type book when you add a book the first thing you do is to
give that book a title so I'm going to call this unit 1 content ok I'm not going to give any some
type of description or anything but when you come down and click here what you do want to do
is click on save and display because what we're going to start to do straightaway is to add the
pages so I'm going to click on save and display and we're going to call this just to make it easy
we're going to call this unit 1 page 1 ok I'll come back and add the content in in a moment so
we'll do that as well and then I'm going to click on Save Changes ok so it's a obviously I've got
with some content in anyway so let's just put a title in the problem alright so we'll put here
introduction ok we'll come back and add some more content afterwards so click on Save Changes ok so
we've done our first unit now what I do we've got the table of contents here we've got our
first unit ok and now all we need to do is to click on plus so going around there's another
chapter we're going to call this unit 1 so don't forget it's the same book but this is going to be
page 2 and we're going to call this let's call this video ok so we added a video into to page
2 and we just do one more so when they click on Save Changes and perhaps we've now got two pages
to our site we're going to just add one more so we're just going to click and add another page
and we'll call this one unit 1 unit 1 make sure I can keep it all nice and consistent and we're
going to call this summary ok so with this book that we've created it's got three pages now at the
moment there's no actual content in it ok it's all just going to put that summary ok I think actually
what I'm just calling it page 1 page 2 page 3 so it's just page three think that was what I was
doing keep it nice and consistent so we've now got three pages here page 1 page 2 and page 3 and we
can actually navigate through these pages okay now obviously there's no content in them at the moment
the biggest problem though really is that when we're here the only way to navigate back to the
main content would be to come up here and click on here but there is a nice little trick that we
can use and I'm just going to show you that now to bring us back to this page and what I do is
I can basically get the link to this page and then add a little button that allows me to jump back so
I'm just going to show you that so just notice see that when you're in on this course here in
unit 2 you click here to come through to the book content you can flick through the pages and notice
on every page I have a button that allows you to come back to the home page okay there's a really
nice way of organizing the content you always come back to the home page and you can flick
through the pages it's one of the most effective ways of quickly and easily organizing your content
in Moodle so I'm going to quickly show you how you do that then so that's a pretty easy thing to do
so all I need to do actually is copy that link now at the top okay I'm going to copy that and
then I'm gonna come back down to that book that we just created so I'm gonna click on it it's
gonna bring me into the book and we're into unit 1 here and I'm going to edit the book content unit
1 the easiest way to do that is just to click here alright so edit chapter 1 so I'm going to
click here so if we now have the content in we've got that word introduction but what we need to do
is to add a button or a link now I'm gonna just do it with a link so I'm gonna take home page ok
and then I'm gonna select that I'm just doing it really quickly and then I'm gonna click here and
I'm gonna add a link ok that's gonna take you back to the home page now I want it to open in
the same window so that when you click on it you doesn't open up another level window but rather
it just takes you back to that page and I'm going to click on insert now obviously I need to do this
to actually all three pages ok so I'm gonna save those changes I'm gonna come back here and edit
page two and do exactly the same thing so on page two we also need that's where the content is going
to go at the top we need to say on page okay and click on that again click on this link and just
paste in the same links it's gonna bring this back to the same page and then we'll do it save those
changes and then do it for the third page as well so that all the pages from any of the pages of
the chapter of the book chapter we can come back to the home page now I could have made that into
a button it's not vital that you do that okay it doesn't have to be a button and that will quickly
show you how you could do that if you wanted to click on insert again okay and save those changes
now let's see actually see if that works so you imagine and what I'm going to do is I'm going to
turn the editing off so I'm going to come back to the start you know turn the editing off so we can
actually kind of see it in action and here we are we've got our book we click on our book to open
it up onto the screen we're on page one we click to page two and suddenly we want to come back to
the home page we click here and back to the home page we come all we need now is to start to add
the content into all of the three different pages of the book and one up a trick of course could be
instead of simply using a a kind of just a link we could use an image and I'm just going to quickly
show you that alright so if we come back again into the book and we've already got the editing on
so we're in fact I would turn editing on sorry now most of you hopefully can make an image but if you
can't just a quick a couple of tips if you needed to get a button just do it let's do a search for
letter H image H for home so we're going to just do a search on Google for that we're gonna click
on images alright so it's an images we've got hundreds here then we're going to click on tools
and we're going to choose something that we can actually reuse so let's click click on labelled
for reuse so any of these images we can use now legally and what the other thing that we might
want to do in this particular case is try and choose a really small size so I'm going to choose
icon size so any of these would be perfect okay so just a simple button that we can click on that
will take us to the home page alright obviously in most cases you're going to make them so I'm going
to use this one here so I'm gonna just download this I'm going to right click and click on save
image as I'm gonna drop that onto my desktop when I call that home page button home page button and
now I can actually use that in my Moodle course so here I am on the page now the first thing I need
to do then is to remember that I'm gonna need to get the link to the home page so I'm going
to just go back to the home page a minute and just make sure that I've got that link because
I'm going to need that okay I'm then going to come back in to the book and we'll just add a
kind of button to the first one so what we're gonna do here is edit this so we're not going
to have this home page here anymore gonna delete that okay instead we're gonna put in the button so
we're gonna click on insert image and click from here we'll obviously need to upload an image as
a file choose that we need to come on obviously to our desktop where I save that image there is
home page button click on open I know this isn't going to look brilliant I'm just highlighting how
you can do this you obviously would make your own choices upload the pattern onto the screen and we
could even resize it as well we're just gonna put that button in for now just to show you as
I said oh this is just just how this is done now I'm gonna click on that image so just gonna make
sure I've got its selected okay really important now I'm gonna click on link here and I'm gonna
add a link into that page I'm just gonna delete whatever is there before I just make sure that
I've got the right link in so I'm gonna paste that there so now when you click on that button
it's gonna actually hopefully it's gonna go to that button and what I also should be able to do
if I just grab that image yes you better just make it smaller okay so this will become the
home button now says it's not very good example obviously I tend to make my own buttons but I'm
just demonstrating it you could do this click on Save Changes okay and now in place of having
just the link we've now got an actual button or thumbs do you put it in the wrong place or poorly
but but the unit page well now suppose it doesn't matter you might want to make it smaller again if
you click on the button it will bring you back to the home page okay obviously the buttons that I'm
creating are nicer and I'm creating those using another technology but just the simple idea again
if you click here obviously I've made this little very simple button and I've actually used by using
Snagit so now you get the idea the last thing I want to do is just sort quickly go through how you
add content into the different units of the book as I said it's really a format that I like using
because it's very easy to navigate through ok so here's another example alright so this is a book
you can see let's just have a look at what I tried to do I try to make it look really consistent so
this is cited page one if we click here page to remember again we've got these home buttons
notice what I'm doing to try to make everything look consistent is I used I have a line here then
I have an image here always the same size have the title here and then I have the content underneath
and then the next page again exactly the same idea with the line here picture always the same size
title content underneath so when you're making your adding your content really try to make the
pages consistent so it really feels like a book and you're working through every chapter now I
tend to use the book for the content part I then have separate buttons for the activities if I want
them to do a discussion on a forum or have a chat or something so if you come back to my example
here you'll see that what I tend to do is I have on the pages the content and then the activities
a separate button so they can first of all access the content click on the homepage and then come
back and then do the activities separately ok so that's basically the way that I use the book
format to make the access to the content nice and clear nice and consistent obviously you've
got to get nice design in terms of the buttons that you use etc but you get the basic idea and
finally just to obviously point out to you how do you edit the content of the book itself all you
need to do is to click on the on the book itself and then you can edit all the pages that you've
created you can create more pages here by simply clicking here so let's imagine that I wanted to
edit page three I would click here it will bring me to page three and then I can start to put my
content in and my pictures etc etc and then of course Save Changes and come back and do exactly
the same page two okay so very easy once you've created your book to start to watch turn into
the pages and make it all of nice and organized consistency is the Golden Rule really hope that
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