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How a teacher can easily assign an audio recording in Moodle, using the new NanoGong plugin

2013/10/17 plagwitz Leave a comment

We are back in business with easy audio recording assignments in the LMS, thanks to NanoGong – the free recorder I recommended when first starting here – now being available in MOODLE (presumably with the Upgrade to Moodle 2, I almost missed that….)
To assign, click “turn editing on”, “Add activity or resource”, select “NanoGong voice activity”, as pictured below:
There are a few interesting options:
1. you can limit the duration
2. you can limit the number of recordings (attempts?) allowed (0 is unlimited)
3. You can let students listen to each other recordings. (Is there a rating feature that can be combined with this?)
4. And this is what
  1. you will see (TBA:read on for how to listen to student submissions, give feedback and grade.)
5. your students will see…

2013/10/03 plagwitz Leave a comment

Like this: “Error: Database connection failed It is possible that the database is overloaded or otherwise not running properly. The site administrator should also check that the database details have been correctly specified in config.php”
Try click on “Edit settings” again. It may well work the second time (overload?).

Categories: Glitches&Errors, lms Tags: moodle

2013/10/01 plagwitz Leave a comment

Over a 100 videos currently available:
Summaries show when you hover over a video tile:
Can it beat YouTube.com for scope? Can it beat textbook-integrated videos for applicability? Likely not, but you may find an add-on for your course, and even more for self-study.

2013/10/01 plagwitz Leave a comment

The Rhapsodie Treebank is made up of “57 short samples of spoken French (5 minutes long on average, amounting to 3 hours of speech and a 33 000 word corpus)” endowed with an orthographical phoneme-aligned transcription”.
Rhapsodie can be searched at http://www.projet-rhapsodie.fr/queryql.html:
View list, read (1) text or (2”phonetic transcription, click (3) and (4) to listen to found segment
You can also search for text and download:
The best is obviously the markup and query language – and hence has a learning curve.

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2013/09/14 plagwitz Leave a comment

Try and get the popup blocker on your office or lab PC fixed here (if you are on Windows 7 here, you need to use the 64-bit version): choose "Run" – preferable to “Download” and "Open".
Then use Internet Explorer to try again what you were trying to do on one of our websites.
Background:
1. My users have been reporting for a while problems getting simple things done on campus websites. Last week I observed a few in their office and in the LRC being stalled by mis- or non-configured popup blocker, and not noticing the cause, being flummoxed.
2. The above little program configures the built-in internet explorer popup blocker to allow popups from websites that are part of our infrastructure.
3. It does not attempt to configure other popup blockers, whether inside or outside of this web browser.
4. The end user could also try
  1. (holding the key:) CTRL-click on the link where your web browsing fails.
  2. Or configure the popup blocker manually.
5. However, it would likely be best if this were done via GPO…

2013/09/04 plagwitz Leave a comment

Problem description:
1. Upon starting the quiz, Students are asked to select the right Moodle server (assuming Moodle2 is the right answer – how long will this step be necessary?)
2. When they are finished with the quiz, Students receive a combined “Ar required parameter is missing” (a link with “more information on this error” is offered underneath the red error message, but cannot be opened) and “Link is blocked” error
3. before they reach the “SAVED” screen with the “submit all and finish”button: Meaning their attempt was not saved and since it cannot be submitted, will be lost.
4. When logging in on a different computer, and starting the quiz in Lockdown browser, it tells students that the attempt is in progress,
5. upon continue, they have to start afresh (nothing has been saved).
6. This is on version from Dec 6 , 2012.
Workaround: Restarting the quiz on a different computer has been the best workaround I have seen so far.