There are lots of ways of editing documents to make them more accessible, and more easily downloadable from Moodle. But why not use the Moodle environment itself to present your information, instead of uploading multiple documents from your computer?

In its Add a resource... menu, Moodle offers you an option to Compose a webpage. This allows you to write webpages as if you were writing a word-processed document. Alternatively, you can paste your text directly to that page from other documents. You have access to a set of Headings and other style tags, and you can include images, tables and accented characters in your page. Even though Moodle refers to this as a 'webpage', it is not publicly available and is only published to your Moodle course. Just as your documents are only visible to students within your Moodle space, so are your Moodle webpages.

There are several advantages to this approach:

1. Webpages can be read by any web browser. Web browsers are free (Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox) and if a student is using Moodle, they already have a web browser. On the other hand, licensed software for documents in PowerPoint is very expensive. Free 'viewer' software is not always easy for students to find, download and use.
   
   
2. Webpages in Moodle offer a good support for your documents. Providing the information on a simple webpage, but including a link to download and print the document you have used, offers the best of both media to students.
   
   
3. Good webpage editors (including the one in Moodle) will retain the style tags you have used in your original document. This not only makes it easier to present your information in a webpage, it also means that screenreaders can read the information correctly.
   
   
4. A good webpage is easily re-purposed: it can be printed, its contents can be copied to a Word document, images can be saved for re-use if needed by students.
   
   
5. When you have created a webpage in Moodle, it becomes accessible in one click from your course homepage. Rather than 'calling' another software package to open, students clicking on the link to a webpage will see the information straight away.