Judy Hsu

Dear all:

I have a quick question.  Is there a easy way to track how students are clicking on "labels" in Moodle 2.0? Here is our situation. We have a lot of flash movie files (SWF) that we collected in a single Moodle course as a "online library." These movies are categorized by different genres (currently about 10 genres), etc. However, as there are too many SWF files (100+), so if we are listing all them vertically, then it become not very user-friendly as students would need a lot of scrolling. As this course is serving as a online resource library purpose (encourage students to "browse"), so we don't want to use "Show only topic X" feature, and the "Section links" block would not help either. We did figure out that we could use "labels" to list out these resource links (SWF files) horizontally, but then when these resources are presented as a "label" form (single label with multiple horizontal links to different files), we lost the tracking capability for the "Activity report" or "Participation report"... is there a way to resolve this? Thanks in advance!

Hi all, I'm trying to customize the /login/index.php as the landing page and I'm trying to insert some images to this page. What would be the easiest way to do this? Should I try to use the "Alternate Login URL" (alternateloginurl) and redirect the login page to another page, or is there a way to directly insert images onto the /login/index.php page (by directly inserting HTML codes)? Thanks for your help.

Hi, it seems that according to http://download.moodle.org/windows/, the "Moodle packages for Windows" is still using xampplite 1.7.1. Would it be a good idea to upgrade this package to use the latest xampplite, which I think should be version 1.7.4? Should I create a moodle track ticket for this? Thanks...

It seems that by upgrading to 1.7.4, it might have better compatibility and support for Moodle 2.0.x...

I'm glad that I found this thread, although no one seems to have answered the question. Anyway, I'm playing with the new Moodle 2.0 recently and have two related questions:

1. At both the system admin "site" level and the instructor "course" level, can we add to the current "Reports" (log) feature (especially the "View course logs" part), that for "All actions (limit to view action only)", it will be able to track more variety of activities (e.g. not just "course view" "forum view," etc., but also log "view resources" such as labels and so on? I know that I should look into the /course/report/log/index.php (or the lib.php file) to modify the codes, but I haven't dig deeper enough to figure this out. So any help or pointers about this would be highly appreciated.

2. Is there any 3rd party codes (patches, etc.) that would allow you to "track" how long a student stayed on a particular resource / label, etc.? The resource could be a Moodle "web page," and I know that we can't guarantee that students really "read" that page for the span of the timeframe, but if we could still keep track of this, I think that would be great!

Thanks!

Dear fellow Moodler, first sorry about double posting this question in the "lesson" module forum as well, as I thought that this topic would fit better with "lesson" forum, but I didn't get any reply there so I thought that I would try my luck in this forum.

In Moodle 1.9.x or the new Moodle 2.0.x, is there a way to easily implement "online comic books", which is similar to something like this:

http://www.milehighcomics.com/firstlook/marvel/amazspid516/page02.html

So basically we would like to upload a lot of JPEG or GIF images, and "link" them together with a simple navigation UI like "Previous" "Next" buttons, and maybe a pull-down menu (TOC) so that users could quickly jump to a particular page.  We also want to track each student's viewing records as much as possible.  We don't want students to "download" something (e.g. PowerPoint .pps file) first and then open it up offline (as we will then lost track of their offline activities). We want them to be able to directly open it up and read it (comics with JPEG images) "inside" Moodle with some simple navigation, and be able to "track" their activities.

I have read about the "Lesson module" documentation (http://docs.moodle.org/en/Lesson), but it doesn't seem to really fit with our needs. I haven't tried the "Workshop module" yet..

Thoughts, comments, suggestions, or ideas? Thank you so much for helping!!

Judy