Hello everyone,
I ask , please , that help me the next question :
1- I want to put on Moodle , an Ebook . how to do this ? Could someone explain me step by step ?
Thank you very much!
Marcelo .Hi Marcelo,
You can upload eBooks to Moodle courses, then students can download them.
You can also add a plugin to Moodle that converts Book module instances into eBooks so students can download those: https://moodle.org/plugins/search.php?s=epub&search=Search+plugins
I hope this helps!
I'm a retired developer thinking about coding again. I used moodle for five years before I retired when I developed an online curriculum in elementary computer programming for Little Big Horn College in Montana. And for the Montana State Extension School.
Right now moodle students have to jump through several hoops to read ebooks. First they have to install an ebook reader on their desktop laptop tablet or smart phone. Then they download the ebook and then, in a final step, load the ebook into the ebook reader. The resulting display is completely outside and disconnected from the layout context of the moodle course it came from.
I'm working on some PHP codes to read ebooks in place, on the server, so the output looks like a ebook, complete with Table of Contents, next page, previous page and goto page, plus page output. All of this will appear as the contents of any block element in HTML, so the ebook output could be wrapped in the larger context of a moodle course, complete with links to tests, forums and other resources.
If this sounds like something that would be valuable to the moodle community I'd be willing to (attempt) to integrate it into moodle.
Once up and running there would be no intermediate steps for the students. They would click a link and then see the ebook output in their browser, as part of a larger and surrounding moodle display.
Hi Sandy,
Did you make any headway on your coding?
Thanks
He's no longer registered in these forums so he's not going to hear you...
You just convert it to HTML and upload the HTML?
It doesn't take ebook content from the server, but the plugin Content Pages (mod_icontent) when used in Moodle has the same look as described by Sandy in the forum entry above: "...complete with Table of Contents, next page, previous page and goto page, ..." Pages in Content Pages look a lot like slides in a slide show presentation like LibreOffice Impress or MS Power Point.
Content Pages also has a few other nice to have capabilities such as questions, note taking, and feedback (doubts).
I would recommend 2 Book Activity Plugins. They are called Lucimoo ePub Import and Lucimoo ePub Export.
This allows you to take an epub file and import it into the book module that is built into Moodle. Then students can read the book right in Moodle.
Of course you must respect copyright but there are plenty of public domain epubs.