I installed the filter via notifications (which it says was successful), and the plugins/nanogong folder from the package to /lib/editor/tinymce/tiny_mce/3.4.9/plugins.
I did both bits before I next opened the editor, but there is no speaker button.
Having never touched tinyMCE plugins before, what might I be missing?
Did you add the two lines of code to ... moodle/lib/editor/tinymce/lib.php ? Without them, the speaker button will not show up in the editor. In my Moodle 2.3 Dev site they are added as lines 191 and 192.
If you need it, here's the code and a picture showing where:
$params['plugins'] .= ',nanogong';
$params['theme_advanced_buttons3'] .=',nanogong';
David,
Not playing can be caused by where you tried to place the recording. There are some places where it appears that everything works and gets saved but it fails to playback. For instance, I have not had any problem with the new Nanogong Voice Activity nor have I had any problems using Nanogong recordings made in the editor in a forum or topic. Basically, everthing in the videos from their website showing how to use the new Nanogong works okay for me.
However, my biggest use of Nanogong has always been to make audio questions for spelling tests. I have not been able to get any recordings made with the new Moodle 2 Nanogong to work in questions, though. Doesn't matter if it is in the question, answer, or feedback editor window. The Nanogong icon always when clicked in the question preview window or in a test, gives an error of "Failed to establish connection to the server."
I have discovered that I can manually upload .wav files into questions and the new filter will play them in Moodle 2.3 Beta. The Moodle Media toolbutton will let you put .wav but not .spx files in the editor box. I'll have to wait and see what I have when I try to do a real upgrade from Moodle 2.2.3+ to Moodle 2.3.
Hi there,
Have you enabled the NanoGong filter from the Moodle administrator menu?
Even if you have installed the NanoGong filter by putting it in the right place within the Moodle folder, you will still have to switch it on in the Home->Site Administration->Plugins->Filters->Manage filters page.
You can take a look at step 2.4 in the following page:
http://nanogong.ust.hk/moodle2_inst.html#install_tinymce
Regards,
Gibson
Hi Fernanda,
Not sure what the problem is at the moment. You have mentioned Forum and Page. Does NanoGong work in any other places?
Regards,
Gibson
Hi
I have the same problem as Fernanda: the module activity of Nanogong is Ok, but the plugin doesn't work in the activities (quizzes, assignments, etc.).
Another problem: the module activity of Nanogong works with Internet Explorer, but it doesn't work with Mozilla Firefox and Safari. Does anyone have this problem too?
Regards
Maribel
Hi Fernanda,
It looks a bit strange in the code you have attached because the URL of moodle.org shouldn't appear in the HTML code.
We have been preparing a new version of the modules and tinyMCE plugin which hopefully will get rid of some of these problems.
However, while we are working on the new version we haven't met the problem you mentioned. It would be nice if we can try that on your site. If possible, you can email me a testing account so that I can test it out and see what the problem is. Thanks!
Regards,
Gibson
I installed Nanogong a few of days ago (on Moodle 2.2.2+), and followed all the instructions. As other people mention, the activity works fine, but the tinymce plugin doesn't. For some reason, I couldn't get it to work anywhere a couple of days ago, but today I got it working in a forum and an assignment (online text). It could be because I updated Java. Before that I was also getting the "Failed to establish connection to the server" error at some point, but I can't remember when.
I also tried to get it working in a label and a quiz question (short answer) today, but it only goes as far as bringing up the recording applet with a white space in the middle like this:
That's as far as it goes. Sometimes it causes the browser (IE) to freeze completely so I have to ctrl+alt+del to close the browser and restart.
Thanks otherwise though, it's a great tool.
Boris.
I don't remember a mention of the filter needing to be active, will check the readme tomorrow. I have activated it now though, and will try recording again.
Can we get confirmation of which parts of moodle the filter will and will not work though, asap please?
Well now an audio recording on the homepage News section works. Presumably since activating the filter
Downloaded the latest nanogong activity.
clicking on the record icon, always show me " failed to initialize audio recorder"
already have the lastest JSE & JDK on my computer.
does not work in any browser and same error
site is running 2.2.4+ on redhat enterprise 6.2 64 bit
never got it to work on 1.9.x also...
I think this plugin is quite buggy
John
Have you tried this test?
http://gong.ust.hk/nanogong/try_javatest.html
The above link runs a test that gives you a yes or no answer as to whether the java plugin will let nanogong work on your computer (as it's not a java webapp running on the server, it sounds like a problem with your client). Also have you tried accessing it from your moodle on a completely different client machine which also has java installed?
David,
Thanks for replying... that was my first test and it passed with flying colors LOL
I don't know what else could be the cause...
Hi everybody,
As Boris, I have updated Java and now almost everything in Nanogong works well. I have tried with IE, Chrome and Firefox. The Nanogong activity works well and the Plugin (for example, in a quiz) works well too.
However, the plugin doesn’t work when the voice message has been sent by a student. In my case (see the following picture), I can listen to the “Recording 1” but I can’t listen to the “Message from student to teacher”.
As a student, I have done a Nanogong activity, I have recorded myself. So far, everything is Ok. But, when I want to "Add a message for the teacher", a voice message I mean, the icons of Nanogong don't appear. I get the next picture with the white space:
Finally, Nanogong doesn’t work at all with Safari in my computer. I get the next message (see the following picture). I don’t understand, since Java and JavaScript are allowed in the Security options of this browser.
Thanks,
Maribel
Hi there,
Please try the latest release of NanoGong with Moodle 2 support, described in this thread:
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=207375
Thanks a lot,
Prof. David Rossiter & Dr. Gibson Lam
The Gong Project
http://nanogong.ust.hk
Hi, I upgraded to the latest release (4.2.2) and tried it out this morning. I'm not sure if it was meant to solve any of the tinymce plugin problems, but I'm still having the same ones as before.
Actually, now it doesn't work anywhere - before upgrading it was working in assignments and forums (but not labels and questions). After upgrading the 'white-space' (where the nanogong voice recording tool is meant to appear) in now happening not just in labels and assignments, but in forums and assignments as well.
Boris.
Just wondering what's going on - are we the only ones having these problems with 4.2.2? I haven't seen much about Nanogong in this forum for a while. Does that mean everyone else's is running fine?
Also thought I'd mention that I had another go at installing 4.2.2, and I came across another problem, this time within the activity module. When I try to listen to a student's uploaded recording (ie., I click on the little speaker icon), I get a message saying "Failed to open incompatible/unavailable voice data".
Does anyone know a solution to this?
Hi folks, newbie here. Although the NanoGong activity module is working great, I can't get the NanoGong TinyMCE plugin working in my text editor for any pages/sites/courses in Moodle. No option appears to insert audio in my text editor. I've inserted the lines of code as I thought I should, but perhaps I didn't do it right. Attached is my moodle/lib/editor/tinymce/lib.php file. Perhaps someone can spot the error. Many thanks.
Whoops, I realized what was wrong. My text editor was set to Atto instead of TinyMCE. I switched and now everything is working well.
