Hi all,
I appreciate I'm probably asking this question in the wrong place but has anyone managed to get a Voki embedded into the TinyMCE editor in Moodle 2.0?
I've just been trying for the past half an hour, have fiddled with a lot of settings, and have managed to get nowhere .
it worked fine when I upgraded (so I know it works) but as soon as I started fiddling with it the TinyMCE editor keeps "cleaning" my code
If anyone has any insight then that would be great.
Thanks in advance,
Ian.
Ooh.. I haven't tried but I will go and try now! (and I bet I can guess why you're asking!) Back soon
(back) Hmmmm...
Well at first I had no luck; then I went back to voki and chose the "other" option for code (I usually pick "standard webpage" It worked fine then - so to double check I clicked back on my label and added some text - and it still works fine. Which embed code option did you use?
Hi there,
I tried to follow Mary's instructions to the letter and copied the following code into this page (HTML version) but nothing appeared. What am I doing wrong?
I tried it out in Lang Teaching in a label and it worked fine there (scroll down to the bottom of the window to see me as I am not).
Cheers,
Glenys
<OBJECT id="voki" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,115,0" WIDTH=200 HEIGHT=267><PARAM NAME="movie" VALUE="http://vhss-d.oddcast.com/vhss_editors/voki_player.swf?doc=http%3A%2F%2Fvhss-d.oddcast.com%2Fphp%2Fvhss_editors%2Fgetvoki%2Fchsm%3D1d1fa243048f96e25165788b1c29a8f9%26sc%3D3171190"><PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><PARAM NAME=scale VALUE=noborder><PARAM NAME=bgcolor VALUE=#><EMBED src="http://vhss-d.oddcast.com/vhss_editors/voki_player.swf?doc=http%3A%2F%2Fvhss-d.oddcast.com%2Fphp%2Fvhss_editors%2Fgetvoki%2Fchsm%3D1d1fa243048f96e25165788b1c29a8f9%26sc%3D3171190" swLiveConnect=true NAME="voki" quality=high allowscriptaccess="always" scale=noborder bgcolor=# WIDTH=200 HEIGHT=267 TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"></EMBED></OBJECT>
Maybe it's because you have different permissions regarding trusted content in this forum from the Lang Teaching forum? I am just guessing though. I did my voki on my own site as an administrator in a topic summary btw. Below is Glenys' voki:
You might have to check a couple of things. Are you the administrator of Moodle? If so, check the following:
I use Voki and have been able to use the same type of script with no problem.
Hi Alfredo - I am not sure it's multimedia plugins as it's embedded javascript - it might just be that those with editing rights have permissions to add code whereas students don't - I have noticed this with forums in my school 1.9 site. Glenys- I just tried to add a voki to the Lang Teaching forum and I couldn't.
Hi Alfredo and Mary,
As moderator (teacher role) on the Lang Teaching forum I can turn the multimedia filter on and off. It's on but "students" still can't embed a Voki.
Aha! That probably why I was able to insert a What2learn exercise on the Lang Teaching forum (see: Students can make their own games on What2learn) and not on the French forum... or here. Just the link appears:
Play this game on the what2learn site
I see I'm going to have to learn how to give students this permission. If you beat me to it, Mary, as you so often do, I know I can rely on you to share.
Is there a security issue?
Cheers,
Glenys
Ok -well I haven't tested this (as I am meant to be out in the real world doing something else but I got voluntarily sidetracked!) I think to allow students to embed javascripty like stuff like Voki you would have to (a) in site admin >security "enable trusted content" and (b) in define roles of student set the capability "trust submitted content" to "allow" BUT there is a BIG WARNING. I don't quite understand why but if you let any old student do this, there is a risk they might bring in dangerous stuff from outside (someone more technical can explain what I mean!) Which is why you have to make the conscious decision to enable trusted content and also why students by default aren't -er -trusted - to do this.
We seem to have gone into a technical area rather than the Lounge chit chat now - I blame Ian Wild!
Hi All,
Sorry for the delay getting back to you all. I was out tutoring yesterday and now I've come down with a cold . Mary is right: the source of my problem was the "Enable trusted content" setting. And, as Mary stated, teachers are trusted but students aren't.
Ooo... and Mary: you guessed correctly, I think. You find me currently updating Moodle Course Conversion: Beginner's Guide for Moodle 2.0. I keep falling foul of issues like this, where there is a subtle setting that has been introduced or changed somewhere. Oh hum .
Thanks again everyone for your help,
Ian.