 Database, share content. Moodle's database activity allows you to build, display and search a bank of entries on a topic of your choice. These entries can include files, images, links to websites, text and more. They may be moderated before approval, commented on and rated. Accessing it with the teacher role we see icons for editing, deleting, approving and unapproving entries. Database activity entries can be displayed as a list and individually in single view. In this database activity, beautiful places, when the entries are displayed in a list we see a name and image along with its location in the world and if we click more to access single view we can also see who added this entry and when. All of these options and more can be set up when adding a database activity so let's explore it now. Our teacher adds a database activity by enabling edit mode top right and then clicking add an activity or resource. Database is an activity because learners interact with it. Click once to go straight to the activity or click the I icon for more information and then the add button bottom right. The name is important because learners click on it to access it. You can optionally give it a description which can be displayed on the course page by ticking the box. Other settings can be expanded by clicking the links. Entries. Here it's important to decide whether or not to moderate entries before they appear. Note if you set them to be moderated and never approve them you can have a useful private sharing area between teachers and individual students. Should students be able to edit their entries and or comment on entries? Should there be a limit on entries students must add before they can view others? Should there be a maximum number of entries students can add? Ratings. By default editing and non-editing teachers can rate database entries but if you want students to do this access permissions and allow students the capability mod data rate. Other settings are similar to other activities. In activity completion to track that students have accessed the database activity do we want them to manually click to confirm they've seen it or do we want it automatically marked complete when they've simply viewed it or obtain a grade or passing grade or added a required number of entries. No need to select view as well as the requirement. To alert course participants that a database activity has been added or updated click send content change notification. After clicking save and display we go to fields. Fields means the information boxes course participants must fill in such as adding text a file or an image. No fields defined means our teacher hasn't added any of these yet so that's the next task. To save time you could choose a predefined set or preset for short which means a file of ready-made fields. Our teacher is going to add fields manually so from fields Sam clicks create new field. Here are the available fields. Text input is useful for names of entries. Ticking required will force the student to enter something here. With picture fields we can specify the size of image for list view and single view. Usually list view would be smaller than single view. Finally we'll add the latitude and longitude field so students must enter the location. Templates define how you want the fields displayed. Anything done to the single and list templates here will determine how they look. The add template will determine what participants see when they click to add their entry and you can also set up an advanced search template. The simple way to set up your database easily is to click the save button for each template as we're doing with the add template now. But you can also edit templates to improve the display. For example if you want the list view to display as a table you'll need first to disable the editor and then enter the code for the header and footer of your table. And if you're comfortable with code you can also explore the CSS and other templates. Let's make some simple changes to the single view. The items in brackets are the fields these are essential. The words in between hashtags are other actions or options so we can add the username and the time and entry was added by clicking where we wanted and then choosing it from the box on the left. Remember to save the template. Now it's time for our student to add an entry, adding a name, uploading an image and entering a geographical location. To summarize the database activity allows you to build, display and search entries on a selected topic.