
Filters: Scratch
The Scratch Filter allows you to embed Scratch games into labels, forums, or web pages automatically - wherever you create a link to a .sb Scratch file that has been uploaded onto the Moodle server (either as an attachment to a forum post, or as a course file).
This not only allows you to use Scratch files as teaching aids, examples, or games but also allows students to share their own Scratch games with other students via a forum, giving and receiving feedback and learning from each other's scripts.
To install and configure:
- Unzip the Scratch plugin folder to the filters folder on your Moodle server
- Log in as administrator and visit the notifications page.
- Enable the Scratch filter (Modules > Filters > Manage Filters)
- Change the settings to enable or disable autoplay (Modules > Filters > Scratch)
- Test out the plugin by adding a link to a Scratch file in a label or creating a forum post with a Scratch file as an attachment
Acknowledgements:
ScratchApplet.jar and soundbank.gm are included with permission from the Scratch team. These files may need updating from time to time as new versions of Scratch are released. They are generally available from:
http://scratch.mit.edu/static/misc/ScratchApplet.jar and http://scratch.mit.edu/static/misc/soundbank.gm
Scratch is developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab. See http://scratch.mit.edu
I found no problems yet. I don't know which problems will come with Java ... you need Java on your client computers if you want to use the Scratch filter. There were some bad news about Java and I don't know what happens with the Scratch apps if the browser get new Java plugins every week.
Scratch will publish Scratch 2.0 during the next weeks and then I will renew the Scratch filter. They are using Flash now
The Scratch apps do not work on a mobile device that can't use Java or Flash so you can't get the Scratch apps on an iPad or an Android.
Ralf
Thanks.
Upload the file as a "File" resource. Edit the resource settings (cog) and press "Save and display" - this takes you to a page with a link to the actual file.
Copy the link to the file (not the resource), it will end in .sb
Type any text and make it a link (chain button, you might need to press show editing tools) to the .sb file that you just copied.
Save.
Optionally - hide the original file resource with the [eye] button.
That's great - worked a treat thanks!
Just struggling with Java now with it blocking due to out of date or expired version of Java. Not sure if that is with the browser plugin or Moodle itself or the Scratch program being used....
I have installed the plugin successfully and enabled the filters.
I have some scratch projects. which I want to show my students as samples.
I am trying to upload the file to the course but I keep getting file type not allowed.
Pls help.
The new version of Scratch 2.0 will not work with this 1.4 filter. Take a look at my hack here:
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=262581