[Nepal] flash in moodle

[Roshan Karki]

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Not only overhead its virtually impossible. We have to recode all the
activities made so far.

Ties Stuij wrote:
> Tony,
> As I discussed in my previous mail, right now, you can't just link to
> the activity swf. It needs the FrontIn swf to be embedded in. To make
> a standalone swf for every activity, we would need to maintain a
> seperate branch if you will. My question was if the overhead justifies
> the benifits.
> 
> /Ties
> 
> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Tony Anderson <tony_anderson at usa.net> wrote:
>> Ties,
>>
>> The Teacher Notes and Lesson Plans can be added in Moodle as separate
>> 'activities' under the topic and then hidden from students (but visible to
>> teachers). In this case the student's Moodle page will link directly to the
>> activity itself. It will probably be useful to show the L swf as one line
>> and the E swf as another in Moodle.
>>
>> Tony
>>
>>
>>
>> Ties Stuij wrote:
>>> Update about flash in moodle:
>>> Due to the way our flash-framework is set up, .flv activity files
>>> can't run directly without the FrontIn flash file. One of the
>>> developers actually made a version a while back that dispatches on the
>>> activity name passed as parameters to the containing page. He made it
>>> in php, which, due to moodle security reasons won't be parsed. But it
>>> can trivially be converted to html+javascript.
>>>
>>> However this will give us the traditional flash intro-page as found on
>>> an XO. You know, the one with the teacher notes, etc. Tony made an
>>> html version of it. So I'd like to know, should we just take the flash
>>> version? Pro flash version: in order to just show the activity, we
>>> need to recompile every activity to also include the framework, which
>>> means administrative and practical overhead when we have to do this
>>> consistantly for every activity. Nice thing about html one is that we
>>> can skip the teacher notes when used by kids. Couldn't find a way to
>>> add parameters only when used by teachers, but we can pull that into
>>> the moodle page the flash is linked from.
>>>
>>> /Ties
>>>
>>> .
>>>
>>
>>
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