Arranging your resources

Why is it important to spend a little time arranging resources in a topic? Isn't it all eye candy? Let's take a look at my Topic 1:

I've got a nice colorful title, some text to introduce the topic, and then a long list of resources which, quite honestly, looks just like the list of files in the shared drive I already use to distribute my documents and handouts to students. What if the topic looked like the following screenshot:

This is much more the effect we need. I've reordered my resources and included some labels, so that it is much easier for students to find a resource. In this section we're going to learn how to bring some order into our topics.

Putting your resources in order

One obvious difference between a shared drive and Moodle is that in Moodle you can put the resources in the order you want, not the order the computer insists on (usually numerical/alphabetical). However, in Moodle any new resources you add are simply queued on to the end of the topic....