The Moodle plugin mod_unilabel enables you to include some nice formated text on the course- or frontpage. There are 5 different content types included (extendable sub plugins):
Copy all files into the folder mod/unilabel inside your moodle installation. Run the installation process in moodle. You can find more detailes to the installation process here: https://docs.moodle.org/35/en/Installing_plugins#Installing_a_plugin
The configuration consists of two steps (except the Simple text type).
This content type just show the label as you already know
In this content type you can define a series of images. Each image is shown in a slide show. You can also define a caption to each image that is show inside the slide item. For each image you can define a url what makes the image to a clickable button. The carousel is by default responsive to different screen sizes. To optimize the responsivity to each of the images you can assigne a mobile optimized image. This mobile image is shown on small devices smaller than 768 px.
In this content type you can define a series of images and contents/urls. The grid is by default responsive to different screen sizes. You can set a column count for the grid to define how many tiles are shown in one row. On smaller screens the column count is reduced by a half of the defined count. On mobile devices like cellphones only one column is shown. To optimize the responsivity to each of the images you can assign a mobile optimized image. This mobile image is shown on small devices smaller than 768 px. If you have defined a content for a slide the content is shown as a modal dialog if you click the slide. If you have defined a url for a slide on click the url is loaded.
This content type offers you two options:
Mainly intended to show on the frontpage it shows the titles and images of selected courses. The presentation can be a carousel or a grid. Each Item is a clickable button that brings the user to the related course.
Mainly intended to show on the frontpage it shows the description of topics of a selected course. The topics will be shown as carousel or as grid. If you click on such a shown topic a modal dialog shows the topic content.