Importing a file into a Moodle page

Importing a file into a Moodle page

by Kimber Warden -
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I've got a file whose contents give students instructions on how to do something. I want to display the contents of this file in several assignments in the same course. I don't want to merely link to the file, I want to actually display the instructions without making it obvious that they're from an external file.

I tried an iframe, but can't figure out how to adjust the iframe's height to perfectly match the external file's height. I don't want there to be scrollbars.

I tried using php's require('myfile.htm'); but the HTML editor stripped out the php code so I can't even see if it would work.

Does anyone have any suggestions for how I can accomplish my goal in Moodle 2.2?

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Re: Importing a file into a Moodle page

by Mary Cooch -
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How long is the file? I mean, if it is a word processed document for example, is it just one page or several? Because if it is only one page you could save it as an image and embed like that.

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Re: Importing a file into a Moodle page

by Kimber Warden -

It's at least a full page, with some javascript that I need to keep active, so saving it as an image won't work. Otherwise, that may have been a good solution.

I know there's a way to call and display a file from within another one, I just need to figure out how. smile

Kimber

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