Moodle plugins directory: Etherpad Lite | Moodle.org
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
Timo, are you still interested in maintenance of the plugin? I could help with the review & testing.
Tomek
yes it was waiting. I think there were some issues with the moodle.org site and this plugin was lost for some months.. No matter what, now it is here ;)
The Humboldt University of Berlin is actively using this plugin, so it will be maintained, not only by me, but the other staff, too.
I uploaded our new version for Moodle 2.7
We would be very pleased, if you can help.
Best regards
Timo
yes it is possible to do that.
The plugin stores the content of the pad in the backup and puts it into a new one on restore/import.
Thanks for the question.
Timo
I will check it tomorrow,
greetz to Jan, maybe he knows me from leipzig ;)
Thanks a lot for your contributions. I've installed CentOS 7 and the latest released etherpad on my test server, the installation is ok and I can use etherpad. But when I created an etherpad activity on moodle(moodle 2.8), there are some error messages:
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Debug info:
Error code: generalexceptionmessage
Stack trace:
line 107 of /mod/etherpadlite/etherpad-lite-client.php: UnexpectedValueException thrown
line 60 of /mod/etherpadlite/etherpad-lite-client.php: call to EtherpadLiteClient->call()
line 148 of /mod/etherpadlite/etherpad-lite-client.php: call to EtherpadLiteClient->post()
line 62 of /mod/etherpadlite/lib.php: call to EtherpadLiteClient->createGroup()
line 121 of /course/modlib.php: call to etherpadlite_add_instance()
line 266 of /course/modedit.php: call to add_moduleinfo()
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Could it by any chance be a plugin error?
Thanks and look forward to your reply.
Lina
The etherpad soudns really interesting, but as far as I see there is no version for moodle 2.9. Is such version planned?
Greets
Nils
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