Moodle plugins directory: Etherpad Lite
Etherpad Lite
Moodle-Dev Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, About
This is an activity module, which integrates etherpad(-lite) http://etherpad.org/ into Moodle.
This plugin allows you to write collaborative in real-time.
Pre-requirement
To use this plugin, you need to have an etherpad-lite installation.
More info can be found on the github pages from this plugin
https://github.com/moodlehu/moodle-mod_etherpadlite
and from etherpad-lite
https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite
Upgrade 3.5 / 3.6: cooperation partners
The upgrade of the plugin "mod_etherpadlite" for Moodle 3.5 and 3.6 as well as the implementation of a fullscreen mode was realized in cooperation with GrabsEDV (Development and Testing), the Humboldt University Berlin (Code Review) and the SVG Academy GmbH (Testing). The developments were financed by the SVG Academy GmbH.
Note
If you are updating your Etherpad Lite installation via git, please use the appropriate branch for your Moodle version!
Screenshots
Contributors
We use this plugin on our Moodle 2.7, it's not mentioned on this page that this plugin is valid for 2.9 and 3.0. Can you plse confirm ? and ideally update this page to mark this plugin as valid after 2.8 ?
On that note, please could I quickly query whether you have any plans to update the plugin to be fully compatible with Moodle v3.1, and its new Global Search feature in particular? To clarify: while we’ve tested the Etherpad Lite plugin under v3.1 and all of the core functionality seems to work fine, we’ve found that instances of the activity are not searchable via v3.1’s Global Search feature. Please see the following screenshot for details, which lists all of the available areas that can searched under v3.1 (note that these settings are available via: Site Administration -> Plugins -> Search -> Manage Global Search):
http://imgur.com/lWWQByE
Note also that the above screenshot was taken on a v3.1 system where the Etherpad Lite plugin is installed and available. However, as you can see, the Etherpad Lite activity is not listed as being available to be searched. Obviously, this is likely to be a significant problem/cause of confusion for users who might want to search for specific instances of the Etherpad Lite activity across Moodle.
I’m not a developer, but my understanding is that mod plugins can be made searchable relatively easily via the addition of a new search class within the plugin’s codebase (located at ../classes/search/activity.php). Please see the following for further details:
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=334938
https://docs.moodle.org/31/en/Global_search
https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Search_API
We really hope this search capability can be added to Etherpad Lite as I’m sure it would be a huge benefit to our users (as well as those of other v3.1 systems) and, again, many thanks for all your efforts to develop this plugin and share it with the community.
Best wishes,
Lina
We use etherpad for our moodle + redmine, both are running with the same server, with reverse-proxy,
The only differences are regarding access configuration
+ slightly version difference : moodle instance : 1.5.7 sur redmine instance : 1.6.0
I wonder if others are facing the same issues ??
Thanks
Emilie
Best regards, Moodle-Dev HU-Berlin, J. Eremie
PS I also had problems with accessing Question bank on Moodle after Windows update, but I solve it by lowering the version of PHP from 7.0.9 to 5.6.30 (64-bit). This did not help with EtherPadLite....
Best regards, Moodle-Dev HU-Berlin, J. Eremie
We upgraded our Moodle to 3.5 and hoped that Etherpad 2.7 would still work. But we get the following error when creating an activity:
Empty or no response from the server
The apache log:
Database transaction aborted automatically in /srv/www/htdocs/moodle/course/modedit.php, referer: ...
Default exception handler: Error: Empty or No Response from the server Debug: \ nError code: generalexceptionmessage \ n * line 107 of /mod/etherpadlite/etherpad-lite-client.php: UnexpectedValueException thrown \ n * line 60 of / mod / etherpadlite / etherpad-lite-client.php: call to EtherpadLiteClient-> call () \ n * line 148 of /mod/etherpadlite/etherpad-lite-client.php: call to EtherpadLiteClient-> post () \ n * line 62 of /mod/etherpadlite/lib.php: call to EtherpadLiteClient-> createGroup () \ n * line 124 of /course/modlib.php: call to etherpadlite_add_instance () \ n * line 154 of /course/modedit.php: call to add_moduleinfo () \ n, referer: ...
If we call Etherpad directly and not via the Moodle plug-in, it works. Our assumption that Etherpad-lite 2.7 for 3.5 is not compatible seems to be confirmed.
Did anyone get Etherpad Lite running at 3.5?
Are there plans to further develop Etherpad Lite for Moodle 3.5?
Excuse me if my english is bad. The Google translator helped.
Best regards,
Egor
Thanks for the question. But could you please use the right place for your questions?
If you have questions like this you can post them in the general plugins forum (https://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=44).
Best regards
Andreas
ErrorId: 4wNmhAZ2hYo9zBrq1xHb
URL: https://myaddress:9001/p/g.NfRQhXclxTNNzHYW$DiaMoodle
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:80.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/80.0
TypeError: $sidedivinner is undefined in https://myaddress:9001/static/js/require-kernel.js?v=c4855223 line 1 > Function at line 5
We do not have a problem when we use Etherpad directly without Moodle.
I never had this problem before with previous versions of Moodle, plugin, or Etherpad Lite Server. Any ideas what cases it and how I can resolve it, please?
PS I set minify to false and AgeMax to 0 in settings.json of Etherpad Lite Server. It seems to help a bit but not completely...
Thank you!
Now I debugged a little bit and found out, that in the file
etherpadlite\classes\client.php in the function get_version() the
$url = $this->baseurl;
ends with
/api
and not with
/api/
what leads to an Etherpad instead of the JSON. After adding the missing slash with the following code it works for us:
if(!(substr_compare($url, "/", -1) === 0)){
$url.="/";
}
The error message I get is "pad.igmetall-moodle.de has refused the connection."
Best regards
Guido