Moodle: getting slideshare embeds to work in an open-source Course Management System
Nov 6, 05:22 am PST
Lots of educators are starting to use slideshare, both for sharing their presentations to peers, and for sharing their classroom presentations. So making sure that slideshare plays nicely with online Course Management Systems is especially important to us.
Christopher Craft has published a detailed guide showing how to integrate slideshare embeds with Moodle, which is one of the most popular open-source course management systems around. This is really cool, because the slideshare embeds provide a way for students to go back over lectures at review time, or ask questions about slides that they didn’t understand online.
My hope is that with time, less special configuration will be needed in order to make moodle and slideshare play nicely together. But at least now there is clear documentation for how to do it. Thanks Chris!
Nov 7, 11:25 pm
Here is an idea I just had … how about a plugin/tool on your website that allows me to put in a URL pointing to a .ppt file, and then seeing it as as slide-show.
it would help when I am on a thin client/smartphone.
Or sometimes just when I don’t want to trust the .ppt and don’t want to download it and open it in Powerpoint on my computer.
You aren’t going to host it … just create a temporary slideshow using the URL the user supplies.