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This refers to Moodle 3.11 from August 2022 onwards

How to create a link to a section, resource or activity elsewhere in your module.

Moodle Help & Support 

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.

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.

  • Go to your module in Moodle and turn editing on 
  • Within a Label or the description section of an activity, resource or a section, expand the formatting toolbar using the 'Show/hide advanced buttons' button

  • Click on the HTML button

  • Find the piece of text you want to anchor, usually the title
  • Before the title paste in the following HTML code:  <span id="TITLE OF THE ANCHOR">
  • Directly after the title paste in the following HTML code:  </span>
  • Click on the HTML button again to check that visually nothing has changed
  • Click Save changes 

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="#TITLE OF ANCHOR">
  • Directly after the title paste in the following HTML code:  </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 so you need to turn editing off 

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