Creating a Hyperlink in Moodle

This tutorial will help you create a clickable link in Moodle, utilizing the familiar text editor used by a large number of websites.

First, take a look at these two different ways of sharing a link in Moodle:

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1. Here is a really interesting story I found:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/11/131121-boredom-personality-psychology-students-science/

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2. Here is a really interesting story I found.

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As a web user, which would you rather see? Do you want to select all of the URL (I would call it a "link" but it's not a link), and then copy it, and then paste it into a browser address bar, and then press the "Enter" key on your keyboard, or would you rather click the link, and be directly to the web page?

It's really easy to give your readers the convenience of an actual link, rather than a text URL to copy & paste (imagine if that's all we ever saw on the web!). Let's avoid that whenever we can.

1. Here is the text editor you will see a zillion times in Moodle, and elsewhere:

2. Rather than pasting a link like this:

3. Make it easier for your readers by making the URL a clickable link. Type in the copy you want to become an active link, then select it:

4. I prefer to make it as obvious as possible that the text is a link by making it bold and underlined, but that's just a preference (two cursors - pretty cool, huh? Don't try it at home):

5. Here is the critical piece - click the "Insert/edit link" button:

6. Paste the link to the page in the "Link URL" field. For pages outside of LBCC Moodle, we recommend setting the "Target" to "Open in new window." Input a Page Title, then click the "Insert" button: 

Now you have provided a live link to a web page that people can view with a single click!

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Oh, here's that link to the interesting story in this tutorial.