The Moodle Text and Media Area allows academics to add text or media content onto the course main page. It is commonly used to display important content, create headings to group content, and add short descriptions.
Add Text and Media Area to indicate to students, how the resources and activities in a course week or topic are organised. Adding Text and Media Area helps students make sense of the Moodle course organisation. It can divide a confusing or intimidating list of activities and resources into digestible chunks that a student feels comfortable approaching.
In the below example, a Text and Media Area is used to create an "Assessments" section with a description.
Create a Text and Media Area
Text and Media Areas are created through "Adding an activity/resource" and selecting the "Text and Media Area" option.
Click 'Get Started' to view the step-by-step guide
Add text to a Text and Media Area
Once a Text and Media Area is created, text can be added by simply typing in the 'text' field. Please note, you can use other text editor features (e.g. image and video embed) to display content on your course page.
Click 'Get Started' to view the step-by-step guide
How to add an image or other media in a Text and Media Area?
When adding a new Text and Media Area to the course, there are many available formatting options in a text editor that can assist in adding images, videos, audio files, Echo360 recording links, H5P files and much more. Explore options by trying the editor in your Sandpit course.
