How to Upload a Prezi to Moodle

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What is it?

Link to external websites and files you have uploaded to Moodle.

Why use it?

Provide access to resources to your students.

Who tin use it?

Staff can add links and files to a Moodle form.

Students and staff can add links and files to word forums posts, wiki entries, glossaries, databases and anywhere else they can edit and contribute text.

Before I start...

Compress your files (making the overall file size smaller) using the features in your Word, PowerPoint or PDF software so they are minor enough for students to download on mobile devices. This is especially important if your files contain a lot of images.

Meeting the baseline

TheUCL Eastward-Learning Baseline suggests the following forConstruction:

1.2 Minimise cognitive load- Avert overloading the front page by placing content off the chief folio in Pages, Books, Folders, Lessons and by hiding unused items.

...and forOrientation:

2.1 Include the Module Syllabus and Intended Learning Outcomes - Include these directly in Moodle, or via a link to the module handbook or departmental website.

How practise I...?

Add a link to the form homepage

Plow editing on and go to the section of the Moodle form homepage where y'all would like the link to appear. It volition be added to the bottom and you can move information technology up afterwards.
ClickAdd together an activity or resource, and select URL.
Enter aName (the text the user volition click on) – brand certain this is articulate.
Add together aDescription and tick theDisplay clarification on form page option if you want to evidence yourDescription below the link (if you lot exercise this you can avoid using labels and so much)
Type in or copy in anExternal URL for the site including the https:// or http://
If you desire to 'embed' the webpage into your Moodle course, so that it appears with the Moodle imprint, menu and side blocks, y'all demand to click onAppearance and choose 'embed' from theDisplay options. Note: the link will need to be a secure link (https) in society to display inside Moodle. Try changing the URL to https to see if the website is available in a secure format. If the page doesn't load you lot will need to choose another display option (avoiding 'in frame' as well). We recommend using the default 'Open up in same window' brandish option, so it is every bit attainable equally possible. Opening links in a new window tin can be disorientating for students and renders the dorsum push inoperable, making it more difficult for those with visual impairments to navigate.
Yous tin can ignore the other options for the moment.
Click onSalve and return to course

Add a file to the course homepage

Drag and Drop files onto my class homepage

You lot can upload files to Moodle past simply dragging them and dropping them on to your Moodle form folio (yous withal need to take editing turned on!)

The file will appear at the bottom of the topic it was dropped into. Large files may take a few seconds to appear on the page.

You tin also select multiple files by clicking and dragging beyond the files, or belongings downwards ctrl or cmd while clicking each file to add it to the choice. You tin can then drag all of these files to Moodle in one footstep.

If you drag a zipped folder, Moodle will ask if y'all want to unzip information technology and create a binder on the Moodle course homepage. Unzipping it will let students to view and download individual files. Keeping it as a file resource will let students to download all the files together (still as a zipped folder) to their computer.

This video shows how to drag and drop files, folders and zipped files onto your course homepage and and so move them to the correct position.

Upload a file to my course homepage manually

Become toAdd an Activity or Resource and then from the list selectFile.
Add aName (the text the user will click on).
Add together aDescription, this is compulsory - y'all tin choose to prove the Description beneath the link (Display description on form page)
In the contents area you lot tin again drag and driblet a file or you lot can clickAdd... to get to the file picker.
TheMoodle File picker appears, offering some possible sources
Upload a file at the top is the almost common choice
UnderFile, Browse... The usual Windows (or Mac) file director appears. Find and click on the file you desire then click onOpen.
You lot can add together details for theAuthor (normally you) *and Licence (*this is a check to ensure yous know the copyrights of any materials you lot upload, cull what y'all think is appropriate)
ClickUpload this file.

The other options in the file browser are ways of sharing files across courses:

Individual files provide access to your personal file infinite.
Shared Moodle files are the files attached to other courses you take rights to – click on this option if y'all want to copy files from other courses.
Recent files are the latest files you take been working with (very useful).

If you are using Internet Explore you must utilise IE10 or afterward for drag-and-driblet uploads to work.

Collect files inside a folder

If you have several files which you want to present to students in one identify, you tin can avert displaying them all on your course surface area'south front page, and thereby contributing to clutter. Instead, upload or move them to a binder and create a single link on the front page - every bit follows:

Turn Editing On
In the Section (or Topic, or Week) where you desire to brandish the link to your Folder, click itsAdd together an Activity or Resources link
Scroll down the list and selectFolder, and then theAdd button; the Editing Binder page loads.
Give information technology a distinctive, concise proper name, and a description to help your students understand what the files are fo (the description will be shown to a higher place the folder's contents and can provide helpful context).
Next, you can add Files to the Folder in ways we have already described above i.e. either dragging them from your personal file space or via the File Picker. You lot can also add a zipped folder and unzip it – see M03b - Uploading multiple files using zip.
When yous are ready, remember to Salvage.
If at whatsoever point, you need to add files to your new folder, clickEdit and echo the steps above. If you need to remove any redundant files, clickEdit and so right-click on the private files, and clickDelete.

Your binder will display all the files within information technology, then brand certain they are named well so students empathize what they are for.

Add a link or file within a book, page or label

Edit the volume, folio or label where you desire to add a file.
Type the text you lot desire to turn in to a link.
Select this text.
Click on thefirst chain icon in the text editor to "Insert/edit link".
To link to a website, paste a spider web address (e.chiliad. starting with ) into theLink URL field.or to link to a file, click on the file icon to the right of theLink URL field.

Caution

The default maximum file size you can upload to Moodle is 160mb. It is possible to change the file size limit upwards to a maximum of 500mb in your form. However, you should consider the touch larger files might have on the load fourth dimension of your grade and materials, especially for students with wearisome internet connections or limited data plans. If y'all wish to go on, you must do the following:

In your Moodle class, nether Course Admin Cake, click Edit settings.
Under Files and uploads, change Maximum upload size.
Click Save.

If you are using Net Explore you must use IE10 or later for drag-and-drib uploads to work.

Examples and case studies

- None at this fourth dimension .

Questions & Answers

- None at this fourth dimension .

Further data

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