Lesson

I had a similar problem.

In my case, I wanted the student to read data from a wiki page, without them having to leave the lesson.

I did it with an iframe in the lesson page. To crop the bits of the wiki page i did not want to display, i styled the frame with negative margin values.

Also, though maybe not relevant in your case, I used the print friendly version of the wiki page, which hid all the active links and got rid of most of the surrounding unwanted material for me.

Here is the code I used:

<p>
<script type="text/javascript">// <![CDATA[
function resizeIframe(obj) {
    obj.style.height = obj.contentWindow.document.body.scrollHeight + 'px';
  }
// ]]></script>
</p>
<p><iframe onload="resizeIframe(this);" seamless="" scrolling="no" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; border: none; width: 100%; margin-top: -2.2em; background-color: white;" src="http://kb.construct-x.com/mod/wiki/prettyview.php?pageid=16"></iframe></p>
<p>Who makes the tea</p>

I know it is bad form to put a script in the body of the page, but it works. The purpose of the script is to ensure the iframe window automatically expands to accommodate the size of the page being embedded.

Chris.