Hi all,
We use Moodle for Language teaching, and in that, we use the Online text Assignment module a lot. It's great, though lacking a feature for us. Now, as we share the installation of Moodle with the rest of the university, so we can't just modify a module to fit our needs.
I'm not a programmer, unfortunately, I can maybe get somene to work on it, but I'd need some info first, and I'd appreciate any suggestions/help.
Here's what I'd like to do:
- Duplicate the "Online Text" assignemnt module with another name, so in the dropdown list, when you click on "Add an Activity > Assignement" there would be something like "Online Text EFL (English Foreign Language)"
- That duplicated module would behave exactly like the original except that the text editor in the feedback field (when a teacher clicks on "grade" to add feedback and grades for students) would be replaced by a TinyMCE including a custom-made plugin we developed here (basically, that plugin allows us to easily add tags to identfy students' language mistakes.
I have found discussions about replacing the text editor by TinyMCE for the whole moodle install, and although I'd really like that very much, I don't think our admin will be very fond of the idea...
Any help or suggestion very welcome!
Should be a fairly simple job.
Copy everything in the 'mod/assignment/type/online' folder into a new folder (e.g. 'mod/assignment/type/onlineefl' )
Rename the 4 times the phrase 'assignment_online' appears in 'assignment.class.php' to 'assignment_onlineefl'.
Copy the 'function display_submission' code from 'mod/assignment/lib.php' into the 'assignment_onlineefl' class defined in 'assignment.class.php', then change the 'print_textarea' line to whatever you want to display instead.
You also need to add a sub-folder called 'lang/en_utf8', put a file called 'assignment_onlineefl.php' in there and add the following code:
<?php
$string['typeonlineefl'] = 'Online Text EFL';
?>
(this last bit will only work if you have the latest version of Moodle, with the following fix in it: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-16796 )
That should cover it, but I may have missed something somewhere along the lines...
Copy everything in the 'mod/assignment/type/online' folder into a new folder (e.g. 'mod/assignment/type/onlineefl' )
Rename the 4 times the phrase 'assignment_online' appears in 'assignment.class.php' to 'assignment_onlineefl'.
Copy the 'function display_submission' code from 'mod/assignment/lib.php' into the 'assignment_onlineefl' class defined in 'assignment.class.php', then change the 'print_textarea' line to whatever you want to display instead.
You also need to add a sub-folder called 'lang/en_utf8', put a file called 'assignment_onlineefl.php' in there and add the following code:
<?php
$string['typeonlineefl'] = 'Online Text EFL';
?>
(this last bit will only work if you have the latest version of Moodle, with the following fix in it: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-16796 )
That should cover it, but I may have missed something somewhere along the lines...
Thanks fo the quick reply, will try as soon as I can and post any results here! I'll also need to check if the fix is included in the install we're running...
I'm currently working on it. Maybe I missed something, but what code should I add in 'lang/en_utf8'?
TIA
TIA
Oops, didn't notice that the forum had stripped out the code I inserted there.
Have a look at this page for some details:
http://docs.moodle.org/en/Development:Assignment_types
(just remember to replace 'PLUGINNAME' with 'onlineefl', or whatever you have called the plugin)
OK thanks for all the help, really much appreciated!
Part 1, the duplication, was successful. Still looking into how to integrate TinyMCE, one step at the time
Two little "bugs" though:
- now when I go to admin > notifications, I get a blank screen. The rest works OK...
- When I want to add an assignment, it is displayed as "typeonlineeslfr" - which is the name I chose for the plugin. I have upgraded my install to the latest weekly built, maybe I did something wrong... Not a big issue though..
Part 1, the duplication, was successful. Still looking into how to integrate TinyMCE, one step at the time
Two little "bugs" though:
- now when I go to admin > notifications, I get a blank screen. The rest works OK...
- When I want to add an assignment, it is displayed as "typeonlineeslfr" - which is the name I chose for the plugin. I have upgraded my install to the latest weekly built, maybe I did something wrong... Not a big issue though..
Hmm, I spoke too soon. I must have done something wrong, because the module is duplicated, but when I click on "grade", page that appears is the normal assignment feedback page, not a modified version...
I've just sent you a message with my email address in it.
If you zip up the module and email it to me, I'll take a look at it and see if I can figure out what's gone wrong...
If you zip up the module and email it to me, I'll take a look at it and see if I can figure out what's gone wrong...
Thanks, I sent you the email. Many thanks!
In reply to Jean-Luc Delghust
Re: Duplicate (part of) an existing module?
Was curious if your integration was finally successful. If yes do share what all went into it in terms of addition of TinyMCE and language plugin.
In reply to StratBeans Consulting
Re: Duplicate (part of) an existing module?
by Jean-Luc Delghust -
Hi, sorry, but it didn't work out in the end.. I decided to wait for our install to upgrade to Moodle 2.0, and in the meantime I'm finalizing different translations of the plugin...