# Introductory text

Just before looking at any particular course tool, note that it is possible to present a welcome message to a course. Click on the *Add an* *introduction text* icon  below the *Learner View* button. A text editor appears...

*Illustration 26: Course homepage – Introduction text*

This feature, although very simple to use, is also very powerful: it can simply present a few words of introduction, but it also enables you to redesign the entire course homepage simply by hiding all the course tools and writing a large introduction text/page including icons with links to the course tools' internal pages.

To do this :

* hide all the tools (by clicking the eye, which must be *closed* and grayed)
* right-click on any tool to which the learners need access
* select *Copy link location*
* left-click on *Add an introduction text*
* place an introduction text (use the table tool , or an external HTML-editing tool if you wish, to position elements precisely) and a new icon/graphic representing the tool requiring access
* click an icon to select it then click the link creation tool 
* « paste » the link that was saved a few steps before (CTRL-V should work just fine)
* click the *save intro text* button

You now have an entirely personalized course homepage! The only remaining other visual elements are the header and the footer.