Adding image content to your course

Sometimes you need to share an image with your students. Here's how to add an image to the content of your Moodle course.

Key points

• Make sure that you have permission to use any images you add to your Moodle course. This means they must be creative commons, public domain or you have made the image yourself.

• It’s useful to get the correct size image for your course before you upload it.

• For accessibility reasons, give your image a meaningful description in the alt-text field.

Step-by-step guide

1. Turn Edit mode on

2. Decide where you want the image to be, and prepare the image by adjusting its size, before you drag it in.

3. Drag the image from your desktop into the location in Moodle where you want it to be

4. A pop-up will appear asking what you want to do with file (image) you just dragged in. You can choose Add media to course page (recommended) or Create file resource

   1. If you choose Add image to course page then you'll effectively be importing the image as a "Text and Media Area" in Moodle.

   2. If you choose Create file resource, the image will show up as a file icon on the course page that students can use to download a full resolution version of the image.

5. The image or file will now show up at the bottom of the Moodle section you added it to.

6. Click the ... button to the right of the image, and choose Edit Settings for the image.

   1. Image opens in an HTML editing text box

   2. Add a title for the image, in the Title in course index field

7. Click on the Image in the text box, then on the image icon in the editor toolbar that appears. Add a text description to your image and resize the image (if needed).

8. Click Save image to finish.

More information

For more information on adding images, Moodle help page on Images.