Visualizing image files in "teacher view" of assignments

Visualizing image files in "teacher view" of assignments

by Serge Charlebois -
Number of replies: 3

Hi,

It seems that the "teacher view" only allows visualizing PDF.

Is it a problem of configuration?

If not, I strongly suggest that image files should also be shown by the interface, even if commenting on these files would not be possible.
This would improve the grading flow. 

regards,

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Visualizing image files in "teacher view" of assignments

by Acqua Alta -
Hi,
The files that can be converted by the Annotate PDF tool are determined by the capabilities of the document converter - which file types can be converted by it to PDF.

Site administration -> Plugins -> Document converters -> Manage document converters

You can see the file types supported there.
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Re: Visualizing image files in "teacher view" of assignments

by Serge Charlebois -

Thanks!

Exactly the information i needed to push to the system admin.

P.S. I've been trying to find the configuration documentation but failed until now. Could you point me to it?

Thanks again.

Serge.

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Re: Visualizing image files in "teacher view" of assignments

by Acqua Alta -
Hi Serge,
The problem is that Unoconv can handle some image files, but it is regarded as a not so great document converter. I guess most people use Google Driver converter, but it doesn't support converting images to pdf.

https://docs.moodle.org/39/en/Universal_Office_Converter_(unoconv)
https://docs.moodle.org/39/en/Google_Drive_converter

And you would find a lot of threads in the forums about these converters.

Also, check this recent article for more info about these converters and also others:
https://www.elearningworld.org/moodle-pdf-conversion-plugins-good-bad-ugly
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