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oohoo - Popup Dictionary - Filter
Filters ::: filter_dictionary
Maintained by 
Patrick Thibaudeau, 
Nicolas Bretin
Nicolas BretinThis filter is required for the oohoo Pop-up Dictionary block.
OOHOO Pop-up Dictionary is a Moodle package that gives the students the
possibility to double click on any word within a Moodle HTML resource and
retrieve its definition from an online dictionary chosen by the teacher.
Latest release:
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Current versions available: 3
This filter works in combination with the oohoo Pop-up Dictionary block.
OOHOO Pop-up Dictionary is a Moodle package that gives the students the
possibility to double click on any word within a Moodle HTML resource and
retrieve its definition from an online dictionary chosen by the teacher.
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Patrick Thibaudeau (Lead maintainer)
Nicolas Bretin: Programmer
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I just tried your dictionary block for Moodle and it is great
If you would be so kind as to include within the block itself (below Change dictionary) a HELP link to the URL of the PDF file with the instructions on how to configure it, I think it will be even more friendly.
I know I may be asking too much, but could you please add the configurations for choosing wikipedia languages for the 6 (or more) most used languages in the wikipedia (english, french, spanish, italian, deutsche, portugues), as they are also the most used languages for Moodle sites.
Thanks a lot for this great plugin.
Thank you for your suggestions. I will add these within the next week. A new version will be available soon.
Patrick
A new version of the filter and the block with the requested changes have been added.
Thanks for the new version. I works great with the new wikipedia languages
Just one typo I saw: the spanish word for spanish is español.
I think it is quite difficult to type this in an english keyboard (I do not know the ASCII codes for the letter ñ), but you could copy it from here and paste it in your code.
The block might be improved even more (perhaps) if there were some more default web dictionaries available in the default dropdown menu than the ones currently available. For example, if you were looking for happiness you could use:
http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/happiness?q=happiness
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/happiness
http://lema.rae.es/drae/?val=felicidad (in spanish)
Or looking for a medical term, such as influenza:
http://vsearch.nlm.nih.gov/vivisimo/cgi-bin/query-meta?v%3Aproject=medlineplus&query=influenza&x=0&y=0
This might be overkill, but it is an idea worth considering.
Thanks again for this nice plugin
Excellent suggestions. I have updated both the filter and the block.
Thank you for these suggestions and for noticing the typo.
Please add this address: http://www.rae.es/rae.html for spanish people. Diccionario de la Real Academia Española.
Thanks you.
Thanks for this resource, I want to use this filter and change the code to redirect the student to a web service which I developed, how can I do this?
Just changed the the code in dictionary.js to point to whatever you want.
Patrick
1. Access your server file, find the WRONG plugin file. Delete it!
2. Open your site, it will show the files missing message, you won’t be able to go anywhere
3. Add this ‘/admin/plugins.php’ after your site domain will open ‘Plugin Overview’ page---Good luck!
4. Find that Bad plugin and uninstall it. Congratulations!
The file "filter/dictionary/settings.php" contains a BOM (byte order mark) which breaks the display of the Moodle site administration menu - at least on Moodle 2.6.
Please could you remove the BOM and update your the github.com repository.
FYI, the following CLI perl command will remove the BOM:
perl -p -i -0777 -e 's/^\xef\xbb\xbf//' filter/dictionary/settings.php
thanks
Gordon