License

CoBRA module for Moodle

Copyright (C) 2016 onwards University of Namur - Cellule TICE

Authors: Jean-Roch Meurisse and Laurence Dumortier

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details:

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General information

CoBRA (aka COrpus-Based Reading Assistant) help French speaking students to read texts in English and Dutch.

Students can click on any word or expression in a CoBRA text to get disambiguated information about it (syntactical category, gender, inflected forms, translation in the reading context) as well as usage examples in similar contexts.

Every clicked word or expression can be added to an exportable personal glossary.

Available CoBRA-formatted texts are hosted on a dedicated server and are loaded through an api.

Access

A demo access to CoBRA-formatted texts with an English and a Dutch text is available for testing purposes. (See Installation section for instructions on how you can get a demo key)

Note that access to the full CoBRA text repository is free of charge but not open, some resources (dictionaries, texts) being subject to copyright. In other words, there is no commercial subscription no fees of any kind required, only a win-win convention with the University of Namur is mandatory. (We offer the technology, you provide the central text repository with new texts.)

In order to access the full CoBRA text repository, a written agreement with UNamur is required, that specifies the user's rights. (Contact guy.deville@unamur.be). CoBRA text repository does not store or use any user data except for authentication data required to give access to priviledged users.

Required version of Moodle

This version works with Moodle 3.5 and above.

## Installation ##

1. Unzip the archive and upload it to the '/mod/' folder of your Moodle server
2. Unzip and copy into the '/mod/' folder.
3. Visit 'Site administration' -> 'Notifications' to install.
4. On the settings page, click "Request Demo key" to be able to test the plugin.
5. Put Moodle out of Maintenance Mode.