Using Tags in Moodle
This guide explains how to connect different types of content using tags and how to display them in a tag cloud.
Why are tags useful?
Tags are a way of bringing together different content types and materials which share a common theme - they therefore form a type of metadata that could help with linking topics across multiple sections (whether organised by weeks or topics).
Read more about tagging in this Moodle article.
Where can I use tags?
Tags can be added to a number of items within Moodle spaces:
- Activities and resources
- Forum posts
- Database entries
- Glossary entries
- Books (teachers only)
- Quiz questions
- Wiki pages
- Blog posts
Adding tags
Activities and resources in a course may be tagged during set-up or via the edit option afterwards.
- Turn editing on.
- Add a new activity or edit an existing activity.
- Open the 'Tags' section
- Type the tag into the drop-down.
- Press enter, and the tag will appear above.
- Save your activity.
Adding a tags block (aka tag cloud)
An effective way of viewing all tags is in a tags block, or a "tag cloud". The larger the tag name displayed in the tag cloud, the more items are associated with it.
- Turn editing on.
- Select tags from the 'Add blocks' menu.
- If appropriate, move the tags block up and/or left, using the arrow icons under the block title.
Remember to configure the block so that it is referencing only tags in your course and not the whole system:
- Open the drop down next to the gear icon in the tags block.
- Click 'Configure Tags block'.
- Choose 'System' or 'Course: ...' for 'Tagged items context under the section 'Block settings'.
Tags added will appear automatically in the Tags block as a word cloud.
Contents
- Introduction to managing course participants
- Make your course visible to students
- Enrolment methods and managing access permissions
- Enrol participants using Warwick auto-enrolment
- Manually enrol participants onto a Moodle space
- Roles and their functions in Moodle
- Groups and groupings
- Enable activity completion
- Mark activity completion manually
- Track activity completion
- Course completion
- Course participation
- Introduction to assessment and feedback
- Create a fail / pass scale
- Create a custom certificate
- Create and manage badges
- Reports, logs and completion data in Moodle
- Create an assignment
- Create an assignment for group submission
- Set up Turnitin within an assignment
- Create and grade a submission using a rubric
- Use a marking workflow for assignments
- Blind marking
- Allocate markers to specific submissions
- Provide grades and feedback for individual assignments
- Check the status of submissions
- Hide or show grades and feedback
- Introduction to eStream
- Access your eStream content
- Uploading videos to eStream
- Edit videos in eStream
- Edit video thumbnail
- Uploading a closed captions (subtitles) file to eStream
- Add eStream videos to Mahara
- Sharing eStream videos to Moodle
- Sharing an eStream video with a link
- Setup a video assignment in Moodle