Moodle in English

A while back, I released the Microsoft Word file Import/Export (Lesson) plugin, which supports importing a Word file into a lesson activity. Each section of the Word file (delimited by a "Heading 1" style) is imported into a separate page in the lesson. This is quite a quick way to populate a lesson with most of the required content. After import, you can change the default sequential page order to whatever you need.

At present, question pages cannot be imported directly into lessons, however, the most recent version of the Microsoft Word File Import/Export (Question Format) allows questions inside Word tables to be imported into a lesson using the "Import question" facility (see screenshot below).

You need to escape the element start tag delimiters within the HTML in your question and answers, see attached Moodle Question XML file. Replace the left-angle bracket character (<) with the less-than entity (&lt;), e.g. use &lt;tr> not <tr>. You need to do this for the answers as well

1. Hiding the default Glossary search: You could hide the standard search box quite easily, either by using CSS to hide it, or editing the PHP code to remove it.

2. Using Solr to search the Glossary: you could use a Generico filter to configure a glossary-specific search that used Solr to search the glossary in this course only (see this related post: https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=434583#p1748773).

3. Using Solr to search linked files on NextCloud: this is probably very hard, and would require a lot of custom development. You should first check whether or not Solr actually indexes linked files on Nextcloud or not. Perhaps it all just works already! If not, then as an alternative, you could instead use Nextcloud, which seems to have its own search facilities, see https://apps.nextcloud.com/categories/search. You could probably integrate the Nextcloud search facility into Moodle somehow, and use it to search the glossary in some way. If you host your own Nextcloud instance, then perhaps you could get Solr to index it and use it within Moodle. You would need to get some advice on this from the Nextcloud people.