2.2.5 Embedding resources: Introduction

1. Introduction

Embedding resources in a Course homepage means the resources will be displayed within the page. A variety of resources can be embedded, such as: images, PDF documents, webpages and media files.

In previous lessons you learned how to upload and display some of these resource types in the Course homepage. This lesson will focus on using the HTML mode available in the text editor to embed resources.

Embedding a resource is not only useful to show the resource as part of the page, but also to avoid causing inconveniences to the users of your course due to slow download of resources, for example.