From the course: Moodle 2.5 Essential Training
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Embedding widgets into your course - Moodle Tutorial
From the course: Moodle 2.5 Essential Training
Embedding widgets into your course
A widget is a little bit of code that appears in a box on blogs and other sites. It might show you the weather, links to books on Amazon, provide a quick poll or a Google map or in the case we're going to use, display a talking avatar to introduce the course. Widgets are made on other websites and to embed them in Moodle we need to grab their code. In this video, we'll take a look how. We first of all need to have the editing turned on, which we've done, either by clicking the button top-right or in the administration block, clicking the link. And then we're going to add a block called an HTML block. And to do this, we scroll down and from the drop-down menu Add a block. Choose HTML. You don't need to know any HTML to be able to use this block. But it is a very versatile block presenting you simply with the TinyMCE text editor into, which you can add content of your choice. In our case widgets. Blocks are always added at the bottom by default. Although, as we've seen before, we can…
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