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8. Text block

• The Text block provides you with the text editor so you can add text, links, images, media and even (with care) embedded code to the block to create truly customised blocks.
• You can add more than one Text block to your course page.

 The following video explains how to use the Text block. 

The Text block

A Text block is a customisable block allowing you to add images, text, links or even embedded code or widgets to blocks at the side of your course.

You don't need to understand any code to use it.

You can add more than one Text block, as you see here, where we have for instance a block introducing the course teacher and an image of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.

To add a block, we enable Edit mode and then from the Block drawer click Add block and choose the block we want - here - Text block.

Let's add an image of the course teacher with a short message.

So, when the block is added we need to configure the new text block by clicking the icon.

We give it a title - I'm going to call it Bonjour! and then in the content we add the image we want.

Teacher Sam has her image on the desktop so simply needs to drag it in.

Moodle's Atto editor allows you to drag and drop an image in We then click on it to give it a description.

Underneath the image we can add text, including making a link and then when we click Save, the Text block displays in the Block drawer.