Waffle Bytes

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I just created a little manual (well, ok it turned out to be quite large) about managing the Moodle site for our Moodle Administrators.  We held our meeting yesterday, and I noticed that many of those that attended along iPads.  I had the brilliant idea of sharing the document out electronically, and remembered that I had been told that Apple's Pages will export to ePub.  So, of course, it gave me an excuse to play! Wow, it worked slick!  However, I thought I'd share out some tips to make your experience more rewarding, and less of the exploration (and problem fixing) mine was. Screenshot of the document in Pages Screenshot of the document in iTunes as ePub  Some suggestions in Pages: If you like to customize your headers (I used a lot of Moodle orange), use the Create New Paragraph Style from Selection under the Format Menu AFTER you set the text to the size, font, color, alignment, etc that you like. Use the built in Table of Content feature...