Wolfram|Alpha plug-in

Wolfram|Alpha plug-in

av Marin Kajba -
Antall svar: 5
New search engine is available, witch have some cool stuff (Wolfram|Alpha). On there page, under download it's available bunch of add-ons for browsers, web site and OS. But it will be nice to have plug-in for moodle such as block, to freely move it around page. Does anybody have idea how to do it?

P.S.: Sorry for my bad English (writing is my bad side).
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Re: Wolfram|Alpha plug-in

av Matt Gibson -
Making a basic block is pretty easy if you don't mind getting your hands dirty with some code. Full instructions are here, and you'll need some code from the Wolfram Alpha site to put into it from here. Good luck! smiler
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Re: Wolfram|Alpha plug-in

av Davo Smith -
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It is pretty cool, although it isn't really a 'search engine' as it is more geared to doing calculations/comparisons, rather than searching for websites.

However, you should read the terms of use very carefully - it states that anyone under 18 needs specific permission from a parent/guardian/teacher to use it and that all results are only for personal, rather than commerical use. It also forbids embedding the results in another website (without permission) and requires proper attribution if the results are used anywhere.

Davo
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Re: Wolfram|Alpha plug-in

av Dale Davies -
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I presume it would be fine to use their widget inside a Moodle block, the results would not be displayed within Moodle however. You could just stick their widget code inside a HTML block.
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Re: Wolfram|Alpha plug-in

av Marin Kajba -
I did read terms of use, so there's no problem with that (we will just offer our students some sort of link to new serach engine, all of them are over 18 and it will not be for comercial use, only for education purpuses). I also found code form wolfram and tutorial how to build blocks in moodle. I don't have problems with coding, only one small problem, how to execute javascript inside php code. Any suggestions?
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Re: Wolfram|Alpha plug-in

av Marin Kajba -
I have some problems with recognition of new block, but I fixed problem for now with HTML block, like Dale told me to do. Thanks!