Moodle Monday - Keep a Style Sheet

This weeks Moodle Monday is a practical one.  When designing your course keep a style sheet to remember what font, size, color and style you use for the variety of labels, titles and headings you use to organize content on your page.  Keep a notepad or word document open to record what styles you use so you can recall them later.

Using different font styles for headings and titles is an powerful way to help organize your course for your online students.  Simply using Bold or a color helps students navigate your course, find resources by type, and even recall information later. 

Some suggestions are:

• Use size and font to differentiate, they are more accessible than color alone. 
• indicate keyword or terms by making them bold.  Avoid underlining and the colors blue and red  or purple as they are used to indicate hyperlinks.  Or highlight the words using the highlight option in Moodle. 
• Use the styles.  Moodle has styles for headings, use them to quickly format text. 
• All Capitals is a simple way to indicate a section or type or resource.