Moodle Plugins directory: Etherpad and Moodle Integration: Comments

Tuesday, 17 October 2017, 8:48 PM - Chris Kenniburg

Tue, 17 Oct 2017 12:48:06 GMT

by Chris Kenniburg.

Hello Paul and others,
We are no longer using Etherpad and the development for this plugin has stopped.

Tuesday, 17 October 2017, 7:13 PM - Paul Raper

Tue, 17 Oct 2017 11:13:13 GMT

by Paul Raper.

Is there no further development of this tool, for example to work with Moodle 3.3.+

Tuesday, 14 March 2017, 5:16 PM - Emilie Lenel

Tue, 14 Mar 2017 09:16:04 GMT

by Emilie Lenel.

Hi, Since the firefox and chrome latest releases, we are facing a lot of issues with our etherpad in Moodle, "No access to pad"...
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

Friday, 15 July 2016, 3:17 PM - sebastian seitz

Fri, 15 Jul 2016 07:17:40 GMT

by sebastian seitz.

Hi, Will the Plugin works with moodle 3.1+? When not, will there be an update to 3.1?

Sunday, 21 February 2016, 5:01 AM - Eugene Matusov

Sat, 20 Feb 2016 21:01:01 GMT

by Eugene Matusov.

To Shawarma Consumer. When I was installing the Moodle Etherpad plugin, I had also initially got the error, "Exception : JSON response could not be decoded". I found that the error was caused by my wrong URL address in the Moodle plugin pointing at the URL of the Etherpad Lite server. My mistake was that I included the instance in the address. It seems that the Etherpad Lite server address should be the same as in the Etherpad settings.json. I hope this help.... Eugene

Sunday, 21 February 2016, 2:59 AM - Eugene Matusov

Sat, 20 Feb 2016 18:59:59 GMT

by Eugene Matusov.

I installed Etherpad Lite on my Windows 2012R IIS8.5 server and then this great Moodle plugin on my Moodle 3.0.2 (PHP 7.0.3 64-bit, MySQL 5.7 64-bit). It works great -- no problems! I run Etherpad as Windows service (I installed it using nssm.exe that I downloaded and placed in the c:/Windows/System32 folder).

My only problem was how to hide the Etherpad from a public access, while making it available for my Moodle users, without requiring them to enter an Etherpad user account. I got around this problem by adding an Etherpad user account into the Moodle Etherpad Lite plugin setting: Server URL pointing at my Etherpadlite server. I put "http://Etherpadusername: Etherpadpassword@myserveretherpad.mydomain.local/" Adding the user account to the URL is considered not good, not secure, but I think it is OK since I'm using the same physical server for Moodle and Etherpad. Of course, I do NOT use Etherpad admin account. Also, I set requireAuthentication to true, while requireAuthorization to false in the Etherpad settings.json file. It works like a charm!

My next challenge is how to set a particualr Moodle Etherpad for groups of students. I have flexible, unstable groups of students in classes (mine and my colleagues) and want my students being able to form a group around a Moodle Etherpad module in a session. Currently a Moodle Etherpad is open for the entire class. In Google Docs, a student can invite other students to work on a Google Doc. I wonder if there is a similar possibility can be developed in Moodle Etherpad. Any ideas? I want to search for Etherpad plugins for a solution....

My big thanks for the designers of the Etherpad Lite and Moodle Etherpad Lite plugin! Eugene

Friday, 20 February 2015, 3:53 AM - Chris Kenniburg

Thu, 19 Feb 2015 19:53:34 GMT

by Chris Kenniburg.

We don't have source code other than the project download. It is not on github.

Friday, 20 February 2015, 3:49 AM - Anthony Borrow

Thu, 19 Feb 2015 19:49:40 GMT

by Anthony Borrow.

Chris - Would it be possible to get the source code and tracker URLs properly setup and updated? Peace - Anthony

Tuesday, 7 October 2014, 7:42 PM - Chris Kenniburg

Tue, 07 Oct 2014 11:42:45 GMT

by Chris Kenniburg.

Jesse H,
1. The host would need to provide this to you.
2. I do not operate primarypad.
This plugin is designed to work with Etherpad installed on a server. You need to run it yourself. Then this plugin allows you to connect and use Moodle with Etherpad.

Tuesday, 7 October 2014, 12:08 PM - Jesse H

Tue, 07 Oct 2014 04:08:21 GMT

by Jesse H.

This seems like a great plugin but I cant get it to work.

1. Unclear where to find the API key when using a hosted service.
2. The hosted primarypad.com seemed very slow and unresponsibe

Thursday, 21 August 2014, 6:39 AM - Matt Bury

Wed, 20 Aug 2014 22:39:51 GMT

by Matt Bury.

Hi, thanks for everyone's contributions to this project. I think this could be a great module. It installs OK on Moodle 2.7 but returns a JSON error if you try to create an instance. I created a free pad (primarypad.com) and tried some variations of the URL and API key but still got JSON errors.

Would love to see some progress on this

Friday, 18 July 2014, 7:37 PM - Pascal Maury

Fri, 18 Jul 2014 11:37:07 GMT

by Pascal Maury.

Hello !

In debug mode, I've got some errors easy to fix : (Moodle 2.5)

Invalid get_string() identifier: 'etherpad:debugger' or component 'mod_etherpad'. Perhaps you are missing $string['etherpad:debugger'] = ''; in mod/etherpad/lang/en/etherpad.php?

Invalid get_string() identifier: 'etherpad:student' or component 'mod_etherpad'. Perhaps you are missing $string['etherpad:student'] = ''; in mod/etherpad/lang/en/etherpad.php?

Invalid get_string() identifier: 'etherpad:teacher' or component 'mod_etherpad'. Perhaps you are missing $string['etherpad:teacher'] = ''; in mod/etherpad/lang/en/etherpad.php?

Can you add the missing lines in lang/en.php ?

Thanks !

Thursday, 15 May 2014, 12:14 AM - Chris Kenniburg

Wed, 14 May 2014 16:14:07 GMT

by Chris Kenniburg.

Timo, That is great news. This plugin is old and hasn't been modified in quite some time. We initially paid to have this developed to get the ball rolling and it was our intent that someone in the community could take this and more fully develop it or create a completely new plugin that is more robust. I think this plugin worked for the time and look forward to checking out your plugin.

Thursday, 15 May 2014, 12:07 AM - Moodle-Dev Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Wed, 14 May 2014 16:07:51 GMT

by Moodle-Dev Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

Hi Chris,
I just want to inform you that we also developed an etherpad-lite module for moodle right at the same time as you did, but we didn't upload it to moodle.org yet.
Now, that it is established at our university, we are submitting it to moodle.org and are waiting for approval right now.

The module's github page is: https://github.com/moodlehu/moodle-mod_etherpadlite

The additional features we decided we need include:
- The user is only be able to access the pad, when he has access to the course.
- It is possible to configure the etherpad server, so that only pads, which are created via moodle are allowed
(Otherwise anyone who knows the url of the server could create and modify pads).
- Backup the module via moodle's internal backup routine

We invite anybody who's interested to comment and contribute.

Best Regards
Timo Welde
(Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

Tuesday, 29 April 2014, 8:12 PM - Chris Kenniburg

Tue, 29 Apr 2014 12:12:17 GMT

by Chris Kenniburg.

Martin, I think the errors you are getting might be related to JQuery. It has it's own package included with this plugin.