Moodle plugin for Chisimba Webpresenter
Derek Keats has made an interesting blog post
789 days ago
Today I wrote a Moodle plugin for Chisimba webPresent. It was my first attempt to write a Moodle plugin since I have never used Moodle before.
Chisimba webPresent is a presentation conversion and sharing module, with an integrated set of realtime online presentation tools. You can upload a PowerPoint or Open Office presentation, and it gets converted to the other format, plus PDF, flash, and images. A transcript is extracted from it, and an autoplay slideshow is created from the images using Ajax.
It also provides a filter that can be cut and pasted into any of the Chisimba based content tools, but need not be limited to the same aplication, or even to PHP applicatoins, as long as the application can handle filters and someone writes one for it.
Webpresenter also includes social networking tools including tagging of presentations, blogging, etc. Indeed, being a Chisimba application, it can use any of the Chisimba modules. While it is designed to run as a stand alone site, providing functionality for other sites to use, you can also integrate it into KEWL3 (eLearning application) as well.
Moodle is one of the most popular eLearning applications. Creating a plugin for Moodle seemed like a good idea since Chisimba does some things very well that Moodle doesn't do at all, and vice versa. With this plugin, a Moodle site could set up a Webpresenter instance, or share one with another organization. Then presentations could be used, for example, to build tutorials in Moodle using Open Office or PowerPoint.
If you are a Moodler, you can download the plugin here. Unzip it into the Moodle filters directory, and enable it using the Moodle filter manager. You can test it by going to http://chameleon.uwc.ac.za and either uploading a presentation or using one of the presentations that you will find there.
Click on a presentation thumbnail in Chameleon, and in the right panel of the presentation you will see two filters. Paste one of those filters into a moodle page after you have enabled the wpresent filter, and you will see your presentation in Moodle. Pretty cool huh?
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webPresent with tags (red arrow) and presentations (blue arrows). Clicking
the presentation will open it for playing in a web browser.. Click the image for
larger view.
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Select the second filter and copy it to the clipboard. Then paste it into your Moodle page. Click image to zoom in
on the filter text.
Remote presentation playin in Moodle.
Check out chameleon at http://chameleon.uwc.ac.za
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