The Moodle Book Module

Table of Contents Introduction.2 Book Settings. 2 Add a New Book.3 First Chapter Displayed..5 Print, Generate IMS Content Package, and Editing Options...5 Importing a Web Page.6 Generating an IMS Content Package..9 Adding the Book as an IMS Content Package..10 Important Notes..10

Introduction
The Book Module is a multi-page resource that you can build online chapter by chapter. The Book Module makes it easy to build multi-page collections of resources in a book-like format. This module can be used to build complete book-like websites inside of your Moodle course. Previously created websites can be imported directly into the Book module. Books can be printed entirely or by chapter. The Book module allows you to have main chapters and sub chapters, but sub chapters cannot have their own sub chapters. The Book module is not interactive. You can, however, link to Choice Activities, Forums, etc., from within a book. And you can include multimedia objects like Flash movies in your book. Creating a Book 1. Log into your course. 2. Click .

3. Select Book from the Add a resource drop-down menu.

Book Settings

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Enter the information into the Add a new Book page. 4. Name this will become the text name for the link to this book on the main course page. 5. Summary provides a brief description of the books contents. 6. Chapter Numbering indicate how you want the chapters to be numbered. There are several predefined numbering formats. None chapter and subchapter titles are not formatted. Select this option if you want to define special numbering styles. For example letters: in chapter title type "A First Chapter", "A.1 Some Subchapter" Numbers chapters and subchapters are numbered. Bullets subchapters are indented and displayed with bullets. Indented subchapters are indented.

7. Disable Printing The printer option allows you to print the whole book or by chapter. Disabling printing means hiding the print icons, the print option is one of this resource's most popular features, so you might not want to disable it. 8. Custom Titles If you enable custom titles, you will be able to create a custom title at the top of your page, different from the one that appears on the left, in the ToC (Table of Contents) section. If you disable custom titles, the chapter title (the one that appears in the table of contents) will appear as a header at the top of your content page. 9. Visible Select Show or Hide to make the book visible to the class.

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10. ID number Setting an ID number provides a way of identifying the activity for grade calculation purposes. If the activity is not included in any grade calculation, then the ID number field can be left blank. The ID number can also be set on the

edit grade calculation page in the gradebook, though it can only be edited on the update activity page. 11. Click Save and display to be directed to the Editing chapter page.

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12. Enter the Chapter Title. Click the Subchapter checkbox if creating a subchapter.

13. Enter the Content for the first chapter. 14. Click Save changes at the bottom of the page.

First Chapter Displayed After clicking the Save changes button, youll be able to view your work thus far. Notice the ToC (Table of contents) section at the top left of the page, and the print icons to the right of the table of contents.

The Print, Generate IMS Content Package, and Editing Options Click the Click the Click the icon to print the entire book icon to print the entire chapter icon to generate an IMS Content Package

An IMS Content Package - IMS is an organization that assists in defining technical standards for various systems, including e-learning material. The IMS Content Packaging specification makes it possible to store chunks of material in a standard format which can be re-used in different systems, without having to convert the material into new formats. The IMS content package in Moodle enables such content packages to be uploaded and included in Moodle courses. There are various options for displaying content in a pop-up window, with a navigation menu or buttons etc. The main difference between an IMS Content Package and a SCORM Package is that IMS is mainly for "static" content. SCORM allows tracking of question/answers and reports a "grade" at the end. If you want to do any tracking or grading then use SCORM - if you just want to display content to the user - use IMS.

15. To add another chapter to the book, click the Click the Click the Click the Click the Click the

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icon to move the chapter down one level icon to move the chapter up one level icon to edit the contents of the chapter icon to delete the chapter icon to Show or Hide the chapter

Importing a Web Page The Book Module allows you to include the content of a webpage (html files and associated images and multimedia files) into your book by directly importing the web page into the book. To import a web page: 16. Click on the Import link Theres an import link located beneath the Table of Contents text on the chapter list page which will take you directly to the Import chapters into books page.

Theres also an Import link at the bottom of the Editing chapter page which is accessed after clicking the Add a chapter icon ( ).

17. Click Choose or upload a file.

18. Click the Choose link if your file has already been uploaded to Moodle.

19. Click Upload a file if your file has not been uploaded to Moodle

20. Click the Browse button to browse for the file on your computer.

21. Once the file has been selected, click Upload this file.

22. Once the file has been uploaded to Moodle, click the Choose link.

23. In the next window, click the Subchapter check box if this is to be a subchapter of a chapter and then click Import.

24. The next window displays a list of the files that are being re-linked in the web page. Click Continue at the bottom of the page.

25. The newly imported page will be listed under the Table of Contents.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Relative file links are converted to absolute chapter links. Therefore images, Flash and Java are unlinked. Remember to upload images and multimedia files as well as html files to your server for re-linking. JavaScript, SSI page includes, etc., will be lost, so keep the pages you want to import simple and static.

Generating an IMS Package Packing and Unzipping Your Book To use your book in applications other than Moodle, youll need to generate it as an IMS Content Package. To do this: 26. Click the icon

27. Click the Save file option in the File Download window.

Adding Your Book as an IMS Content Package You can import the Book into another course as a Book or an IMS Content Package. (Please see the Course Import documentation in Moodle Learn for course import instructions. To import the Book as an IMS Content Package: 28. Click .

29. Click on Add a resource.

30. Select Add an IMS Content Package. 31. Go through the procedure to Choose or Upload a file as described in Step 18 through Step 22. 32. After the file is uploaded, click Save and return to course. Your book will be inserted as an IMS Content Package. IMPORTANT NOTES: Relative file links are converted to absolute chapter links. Therefore images, Flash and Java are unlinked. Remember to upload images and multimedia files as well as html files to your server for re-linking. JavaScript, SSI page includes, etc., will be lost, so keep the pages you want to import simple and static. Editing a book is not possible when it is opened as an IMS Content Package.

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