This refers to Moodle 4.1 from December 2023 onwards
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How to: Create internal navigation links in your module
As well as creating urls to external websites you can create internal links to resources or aspects of a page as well. Internal links are useful for navigation around content heavy sections of your Moodle module site.
Note: If you have collapsed topics you can only use internal links within a section, not to navigate from one section to another.
Creating the anchor
The 'anchor' is thing you want to create a navigation link to, like a bookmark.
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1. Go to your Moodle module
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site and turn on the editing mode, using the toggle switch in the top navigation bar. Image Added
2. Within a Label or the description section of an activity, resource or a section, expand the formatting toolbar using the 'Show
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/hide advanced buttons' button
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3. Click on the HTML button
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4. Find the piece of text you want to anchor, usually the title
5. Before the title paste in the following HTML code: <span id="
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TITLE OF THE ANCHOR">
6. Directly after the title paste in the following HTML code: </span>
7. Click on the HTML button again to check that visually nothing has changed
8. Click Save
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Creating the link
This will produce a hyperlink that you can click on and it will take you to the connected anchor.
- Go to your module in Moodle
- Within a Label or the description section of an activity, resource or a section, expand the formatting toolbar using the 'Show more buttons' button
- Click on the HTML button
- Find the piece of text you want to make a hyperlink to the anchor, this might be in a contents list
- Before the text paste in the following HTML code: <a href="
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- #TITLE OF ANCHOR">
- Directly after the title paste in the following HTML code:
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- </a>
- Click on the HTML button again to check that a hyperlink has been created but that visually nothing else has changed
- Click Save changes
Note: The hyperlink isn't active in the editing mode , you can test it once you've clicked Save changes.so you need to turn editing off using the toggle switch on the top navigation bar. Image Added
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