The Moodle Book is similar to an e-book and—unlike a standard PDF or Word document—is designed to be accessible for all users, regardless of disabilities, devices, or screen sizes. The multi-page resource is compact and easily navigable via its table of contents.
A Moodle Book allows you to create a multi-page resource in an e-book format with a table of contents. Multimedia and interactive content can be embedded in the Book, which may be printed in its entirety or by chapter.
Enter your course and turn Edit mode on.
Scroll to the section where you want to add a Book.
Click the corresponding Add an activity or resource link.
Select Book from the Activity Chooser.
Complete the General Section:
Complete the Appearance section:
Click the Save and display button.
Add the first chapter to your book:
Enter a Chapter title: Use a short, but descriptive title for your chapter. This will appear as a link in the table of contents.
Enter Content: You can add formatted text, media, url links, and H5P content via the text editor to the chapters of your book.
NOTE: If you only want one chapter, we recommend you use a Page Resource instead.
Click the Save changes button.
Follow these instructions to add a chapter or subchapter to your book:
Enter your course and turn Edit mode on.
Click the Book link you want to edit.
Open the Block drawer to view the table of contents.
Enter a Chapter title: Use a short, but descriptive title for your chapter. This will appear as a link in the table of contents.
Enter Content: You can add formatted text, media, url links, and H5P content via the text editor to the chapters of your book.
NOTE: If you want to create a subchapter, check the Subchapter checkbox.
Click the Save changes button.
Follow these directions to edit an existing chapter or subchapter in your book, such as the Course Syllabus book in the Course Structure Template:
Enter your course and turn Edit mode on.
Click the Book link you want to edit.
Open the Block drawer to view the table of contents.
Edit the Chapter title and/or Content.
NOTE: Check the Subchapter checkbox to create a subchapter of the previous chapter.
Click the Save changes button.
You can easily import Word documents into your Moodle Book. Headings and subheadings—if tagged properly in your original Word document—will automatically convert to chapters and subchapters. Formatting can be lost in the import process, so preview your book after the import is completed.
Click the Book link where you want to import the Word document.
Select the Import from Microsoft Word option from the secondary navigation.
Drag and drop your Word document into the dashed box…
or click the Choose a file… button and select the Word document to import.
NOTE: If you are using subheadings in your document, select the Create subchapters based on subheadings checkbox.
Click the Import button.
Click the Continue button.
Some Word formatting may not come over properly in the import process, so preview and edit your book as needed.
You may want to reorganize or remove some of the chapters of your Moodle book. This process requires using the Table of Contents.
NOTE: Enable Edit mode and open the Block drawer to access the Table of Contents.
Here are some ways you can organize the chapters in your book:
The book module allows you to have main chapters and sub chapters. The chapter formatting that you selected in the Appearance section when you created the book will determine how your Chapters and Subchapters will appear in the Table of Contents.
To change a chapter to a subchapter:
You can move the chapters up and down to change the order of the chapters in your book.
To move a chapter up/down:
You may have chapters you do not want students to access. To keep the chapter in the book, but to not have available to students you can hide it. If you no longer want to have the chapter you can delete it.
To hide/delete a chapter:
