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Moodle in English -> Glossary Using a glossary to curate external URLs -> Re: Using a glossary to curate external URLs

by Eoin Campbell -
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You could possibly use a Database activity instead of a Glossary to store entries, as it allows you import simple CSV files you maintain in Excel. It also supports using tags to add metadata, which might make the presentation much easier for students.
If you want students to be able to search your catalog, consider turning on Global search. 
8,000 is a very long linear list, but if the information is hierarchical in nature, you could consider using a Book activity which has chapters and subchapters. You could then group entries into tables of related information in a Book chapter, which presents as a single HTML page. You could use Word files containing Heading styles to create and edit the list, and import it directly into the Book using the Microsoft Word File Import/Export (Book) plugin (which I maintain).

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Moodle in English -> Moodle office tool integrations Restricting visibility of Microsoft teams button in Atto editor to certain users -> Re: Restricting visibility of Microsoft teams button in Atto editor to certain users

by Eoin Campbell -
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You can't restrict by user without a lot of work, but you can simply remove the icon from the toolbar. Go to Site administration > Plugins > Text editors > Atto HTML editor > Atto toolbar settings (https://yourmoodle.org/admin/settings.php?section=editorsettingsatto) and edit the "Toolbar config" field to replace "links = link, teamsmeeting" with "links = link". See screenshot below.


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Moodle in English -> Quiz one user different overrides at the same time -> Re: one user different overrides at the same time

by Eoin Campbell -
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I don't think this is possible to do retrospectively. However, you could make it work in the future by using the Group override facility. Create a special group called "Medical Cert", and then add a Group override for this group in each quiz. The override settings should disable the open and close dates, but have a unique secret password, and only 1 attempt allowed (see screenshot below). Keep the list of override passwords for each quiz somewhere safe, and when a student needs to complete a quiz they missed, you just add them to the group, and send them the password for the quiz they missed.


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Moodle in English -> Quiz give dynamically the percentage of users answered a question correctly in generalfeedback multichoice question -> Re: give dynamically the percentage of users answered a question correctly in generalfeedback multichoice question

by Eoin Campbell -
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You may not need to write a plugin. The Generico filter is a very good substitute a it supports running SQL queries on the Moodle database tables and presenting the results on screen. It requires a good knowledge of SQL and the Moodle database tables, plus a bit of JavaScript and HTML, but there are plenty of example filters to get you started. However, having previously delved into the database tables used to store question attempts and answers, I can tell you it is quite difficult to extract the basic data though.
Also, even if you did manage to write the code, the percentage value presented as feedback will change dramatically over time, particularly during the first few attempts at a quiz, so I'm not sure of the overall value of presenting this number as feedback. Student 1 would always see 0%, student 2 would only see either 0% or 100%, student 3 would see 0%, 50% or 100%, etc.
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Moodle in English -> General help Group activity completion -> Re: Group activity completion

by Eoin Campbell -
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Interesting question, so I checked this out, and in an assignment it works as you require. Set up an assignment so that students must submit in groups, and specify the grouping to use (screenshot 1 "Group submission settings"). Organise the students into a group (screenshot 2 "Add/remove users: Group 2"). When one student in the group submits a document to the assignment, all students in the group have the activity marked as completed (screenshot 3 "Activity completion report").




Activity completion report


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