If you create/add a new resource type, you have to edit the global resource.php language file to assign a name, hence breaking the modularity of moodle. I tried to create a lang folder structure (as for the activity modules) in the ROOT/mod/resource/type/newtypefolder but it didn't work... I can't obviously put a lang folder structure directly in the mod/resource folder, as it will anyway break the modularity, even if in a lesser way. I suggest this fix in the resource/lib.php file: function resource_get_types() { global $CFG; $types = array(); $standardresources = array('text','html','file','directory'); foreach ($standardresources as $resourcetype) { $type = new object(); $type->modclass = MOD_CLASS_RESOURCE; $type->name = $resourcetype; $type->type = "resource&type=$resourcetype"; $type->typestr = get_string("resourcetype$resourcetype", 'resource'); $types[] = $type; } /// Drop-in extra resource types $resourcetypes = get_list_of_plugins('mod/resource/type'); foreach ($resourcetypes as $resourcetype) { if (!empty($CFG->{'resource_hide_'.$resourcetype})) { // Not wanted continue; } if (!in_array($resourcetype, $standardresources)) { $type = new object(); $type->modclass = MOD_CLASS_RESOURCE; $type->name = $resourcetype; $type->type = "resource&type=$resourcetype"; // this is the modified line to include extrapath directly in the new resource // NOTICE: the language file must be called "resource.php", thus breaking the habitual way of naming the language file by the name of the module $type->typestr = get_string("resourcetype$resourcetype", 'resource', NULL, "$CFG->dirroot/mod/resource/type/$resourcetype/lang/"); $types[] = $type; } } return $types; } a workaround for the NOTICE above could be changing the affected line with this block of code === $type->typestr = get_string("resourcetype$resourcetype", 'resource'); if ($type->typestr=="[[resourcetype$resourcetype]]") { $type->typestr = get_string("resourcetype$resourcetype", $resourcetype, NULL, "$CFG->dirroot/mod/resource/type/$resourcetype/lang/"); } === Hope this helps