Course: Moodle support and tips, Section: Sourcing images, icons, etc to use in your Moodle

Moodle help
The Department currently uses Moodle version 3.1.
- Moodle 3.1 documentation provides step-by-step how-to's and information
- Moodle information and basic introduction to Moodle videos on the Intranet (staff LearnLink authentication required)
- Lynda.com offers a range of Moodle courses for those wanting some additional guidance and tips for those who wish to undertake some additional learning (These courses are not endorsed by the Department)

Sourcing images, icons, etc to use in your Moodle
- Pixabay (Images - photos, illustrations, vectors - and videos ) URL
  Excerpt from Pixabay FAQ: You can copy, modify, distribute, and use the images, even for commercial purposes, all without asking for permission or giving credits to the artist. However, depicted content may still be protected by trademarks, publicity or privacy rights. Learn more ...
- Freepik - vector icons URL
  Freepik offers users, high quality graphic designs: exclusive illustrations and graphic resources carefully selected by our design team in order to provide our users with great content that can be used in both personal and commercial projects.
  
  NOTE: Vector icons can be edited with commercial software such as Adobe Illustrator; open source software such as Inkscape - and other alternatives.
- Unicode characters - copy and paste (across platform friendly) URL
  If you need to use a symbol, icon or emoticon in your course navigation, content or headings - this table offers a handy copy and paste option (and gives you a preview of how peope will see the icon on different spaces or devices/operating systems).
  
  See also: https://unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-list.html
- Images that have been used in this Moodle Folder
  This folder contains images under open licenses that allow commerical/personal use and do not require attribution that have been modified (resized/recoloured/changed) for use in our Moodle courses.