5. Adding a book

The book resource enables a teacher to create a series of content pages with chapters and subchapters. Books can contain media files as well as text and are useful for displaying lengthy passages of information which can be broken down into sections.

A book may be used

  • To display reading material for individual modules of study
  • As a staff departmental handbook
  • As a showcase portfolio of student work

Adding a book

  • A teacher can add a book by choosing it from the "Add an activity or resource" link

Give your book a name and a summary

Tell your students what your book is called and provide a brief description of its content. Keep in mind that the name you give your book will become the text for the link to it on your main course page. This is true of all the activities you create in Moodle.

adding a book


Appearance - Indicate how you want chapters numbered

There are several predefined numbering types:

  • None - chapter and subchapter titles are not formatted at all, use 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 (1, 1.1, 1.2, 2, ...)
  • Bullets - subchapters are indented and displayed with bullets.
  • Indented - subchapters are indented.

book appearance

Allow or disallow custom titles

Custom titles can be enabled to allow for longer titles that would not be appropriate in the table of contents. If you enable custom titles, you will need to enter the chapter title as part of the page content (the title field will only show up in the table of content). If custom titles are enabled and a heading not included as part of the page content then no title will show on the page.


Adding a chapter

Titles of chapters appear as links in the table of contents to the left of your content. Keep your titles short.

To add another chapter, click on the red cross in the Table of Contents or first chapter. The new chapter will be inserted directly after the chapter whose title is on the same line as the red cross you click.

add new chapter


Adding a sub chapter

Note that the sub chapter box is checked. A chapter may have many sub chapters, but sub chapters cannot have subchapters. In order to keep this resource simple, you are limited to two levels.

subchapter

You now see a chapter and a sub chapter.

table of contents

Printing books

Whole books and individual chapters may be printed by selecting the relevant link in Settings>Book administration:

print book