Add an AI-made HTML quiz or game to Moodle: File, Page, or URL resource

ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, or Copilot gave you a quiz, a game, or a simulation as one .html file, and it runs when you open it on your computer. Moodle offers 3 places for it: upload the file as a File resource, add a link as a URL resource, or paste the code into a Page. Each one depends on a different setting, and two of them on settings only your Moodle admin can change. This guide uses Moodle's docs for Moodle 5.3, the long-term support release out since October 5, 2026, and Moodle's own code for that release, both read on November 7, 2026.

File, URL, or Page: what students get

The quotes in the 2 URL rows are Moodle's help for the Display setting, which Moodle shows next to it in the form. A File resource stays inside your Moodle, and students sign in to open it. A link also opens outside it: another course or site, a QR code on the board, or parents at home, on a Chromebook, an iPad, or a phone.

Upload the .html file as a File resource

Moodle's docs for the File resource say “The file module may be used if you have a folder with linked files such as a website with an index.html file, and optionally images, CSS style sheet files and JavaScript files.” For a folder of files, you set the index.html file as the main file. For a single .html file from an AI, that's the one file.

How students see it depends on Display under Appearance. In Moodle 5.3's code, Automatic shows an HTML file with Embed: inside the course page, in a frame Moodle serves from your own site, so the frame isn't the problem. Open shows only the file. Force download makes students save it instead. In Moodle 5.3's code, the file goes to the browser as a web page, not a download, with nothing that turns its scripts off. We didn't test it on a Moodle site or in the Moodle app, so open it once with Switch role > Student. If the quiz responds, keep it there.

A link is the better fit when the same quiz goes beyond one course: another class, a colleague's course, a QR code on the board, or parents at home. You fix it in one place, and Convika counts its page views.

Paste the HTML into a Page or a Text and media area

Moodle's docs for the Page resource say to add “text, images, links or multimedia” under Content, and they don't mention scripts. Two admin settings decide what happens to code pasted there:

• Content cleaning everywhere. Moodle's description of this setting says content “is not cleaned in certain places such as activity descriptions, page resources or HTML blocks to allow scripts, media, inline frames etc. to be added. If this setting is enabled, ALL content will be cleaned.” In Moodle 5.3's code it's off by default and sits among the experimental settings.
• Extended valid elements, in the TinyMCE editor's settings. Its default in Moodle 5.3 is script[*],p[*],i[*], so the editor keeps <script> tags unless an admin changes it.

Enable trusted content is the setting people often point to. Moodle's docs describe it as a way past the cleaning of “text that comes from users,” and the description of Content cleaning everywhere already names page resources and activity descriptions among the places Moodle leaves alone.

We didn't test pasting an AI-made page into a Moodle Page. A page from ChatGPT is a whole document with its own styles and scripts, and a Page puts it inside Moodle's own page. If the quiz loses its buttons or layout there, publish it and add it as a URL instead.

Publish your HTML and add it to Moodle as a URL in 5 steps

The box at the top of this page turns the file into a page with its own address. Students then open it from Moodle with no Convika account.

1. Drop the file or paste the code in the box

In the upload box, drop one .html or .htm file (up to 2 MB) under Upload a file, or switch to Paste code and paste the code from ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, or Copilot. Click Get my preview link. You don't need an account or an email for this. The preview is for checking only: it works for 3 minutes, with scripts and forms off, so the quiz's buttons won't respond yet. Don't add it to Moodle.

2. Keep the page and check that it runs

Click Keep this page — free, no card and sign up. The page moves into your account as you uploaded it, and its scripts run there. Click Open preview and play the quiz through once.

3. Publish the page

Click Publish page. Under Who can open this page?, choose Public and click Next. The first time you publish, Convika shows Publish free, and under it Publish without the Convika bar, which opens an order for Pro monthly (1 day free with a card, then $12 a month). To publish on Free, click Publish free. Students open a Public page without an account or a password, and it may show up in search results and in Convika's gallery. To keep it out of both, choose Private link (Pro) instead.

4. Copy the address

Click Copy next to the Live URL. The address looks like yourpage.convika.page and stays the same until you click Unpublish.

5. Add a URL resource set to Open

In your course, with Edit mode on, choose URL from the activity chooser and give it a name. Paste the address into External URL, with https:// at the start. Under Appearance, set Display to Open, or to New window if your site offers it. Click Save and return to course.

Which Display option opens the page, and which shows an empty frame

A published Convika page refuses to be shown inside another site's frame. So any Display option that puts the page inside Moodle's own page shows an empty frame, and every option that gives it its own window works.

Your admin decides the list. Available display options, under Site administration > Plugins > Activity modules > URL, sets which choices teachers see. Moodle 5.3 turns on Automatic, Embed, Open, and In pop-up, and leaves In frame and New window off until an admin adds them. If New window is missing, use Open, or ask your admin to add it. The same admin page also sets the Display a new URL starts on, Automatic by default.

If students already see an empty frame, edit the URL resource, set Display to Open or New window, and save. Nothing changes on the Convika side.

Test it as a student

Moodle's docs describe Switch role in the user menu, which shows the course as another role sees it, if your role allows it. Switch to Student, open the URL resource, and play the quiz for a minute: the page should open on its own, not in a frame, and its buttons should respond. Switch back from the same menu.

Then open the course on one student device. A school web filter can block a site it doesn't know yet. If it does, ask whoever runs the filter to allow the address.

Fix a question without editing the course

On the page's screen in Convika, under Update from an HTML file, click Upload a new version, drop the corrected file, and click Upload as a new version. Check it with Open preview, then click Publish v2 at the same link. The URL resource in Moodle stays as it is, and it opens the fixed page.

Next week's quiz. Free keeps 1 published page live at a time. One page can hold several quizzes picked from a menu: ask the AI to add each new quiz to the same file, then upload it as a new version. A separate quiz page is a second publish. If Convika takes it for a new version of the live quiz, click Publish it as another page. For a Public page, the choice is then Light ($3 a month on top of Free, for up to 5 live pages; the Convika bar stays), through Publish this page too, with Light, or Swap it in for the live page (free), which puts last week's quiz back to a draft and stops its link in Moodle. This is the rule for workspaces created on or after October 23, 2026 (Japan time). Pricing lists each plan.

Frequently asked questions

How do I add an HTML file to Moodle?

Choose File from the activity chooser, upload the .html file, and click Save and display. Moodle shows it from your own site, and its docs say a File resource can show a website with JavaScript files. Open it with Switch role > Student before class. For a quiz students also open outside the course, publish it and add its address as a URL resource with Display set to Open or New window.

Can you embed HTML in Moodle?

Moodle doesn't clean page resources or activity descriptions unless an admin turns on Content cleaning everywhere, so pasted HTML can stay as written. We didn't test a whole AI-made page pasted into a Page. A published Convika page can't be embedded: with Display set to Embed or In frame, a URL resource shows an empty frame.

Why does my URL resource show an empty frame in Moodle?

Its Display is Embed or In frame, and the site at that address refuses to be shown inside another site. A published Convika page always refuses. Edit the resource, set Display to Open or New window, and click Save and return to course.

How do I make a Moodle link open in a new window?

Set the URL resource's Display to New window. Moodle leaves that option off until an admin adds it under Available display options. In pop-up also opens a separate window, without menus or an address bar, and Open shows the page in the same tab.

Why doesn't JavaScript work in my Moodle page?

Moodle's code keeps scripts in a Page by default. An admin can change that with Content cleaning everywhere, which cleans all content, or with the editor's Extended valid elements. A whole page from an AI also lands inside Moodle's page, next to Moodle's own styles and scripts. Publishing it and adding it as a URL set to Open runs it at its own address, outside Moodle's page.

Sources

• URL resource (Moodle 5.3 docs) (read on November 7, 2026)
• URL resource settings (Moodle 5.3 docs) (read on November 7, 2026)
• File resource (Moodle 5.3 docs) (read on November 7, 2026)
• File resource settings (Moodle 5.3 docs) (read on November 7, 2026)
• Page resource (Moodle 5.3 docs) (read on November 7, 2026)
• Site security settings (Moodle 5.3 docs) (read on November 7, 2026)
• Switch roles (Moodle 5.3 docs) (read on November 7, 2026)
• Moodle releases (Moodle developer docs) (read on November 7, 2026)
• The URL resource's Display help and options (moodle/moodle, MOODLE_503_STABLE) (read on November 7, 2026)
• Content cleaning everywhere (moodle/moodle, MOODLE_503_STABLE) (read on November 7, 2026)