Art Lader

Hi,

You can see books in action at http://moodle.tokem.fi/.

Hope that helps.

-- Art

Hi, Samantha,

You can put a Flash movie in the topic section of the front page. One way to do it would be to upload the swf file to site files and just link to it from the topic section. If your filters are set up to permit this, the movie will simply appear. It is Moodle Magic. That's all we did at http://smhoc.mrooms.org/ and it works our pretty well.

You can do the same thing by uploading to the files area of a course and linking from the zero section at the top.

Hope that helps a bit.

-- Art

Interesting... http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/28/AR2007032802038.html

Two McLean High School students have launched a court challenge against a California company hired by their school to catch cheaters, claiming the anti-plagiarism service violates copyright laws.

The lawsuit, filed this week in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, seeks $900,000 in damages from the for-profit service known as Turnitin. The service seeks to root out cheaters by comparing student term papers and essays against a database of more than 22 million student papers as well as online sources and electronic archives of journals. In the process, the student papers are added to the database.

Thanks, John!

Thanks, Gary,

The Jammie Thomas tip is something I should have thought of. Doh!

This looks promising, too - http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/law_librarian_blog/2008/04/georgia-state-s.html. It seems to be a flagrant example of copyright/fair use, but I will have to read more.

-- Art