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Moodle Extension

Existing possibilities

Moodle Filter

There is currently a  Moodle filter  for GeoGebra which is maintained by Peter Tierney-Fife <ptierney-fife@…>.

GeoGebra Filter for Moodle 2.0/2.1 is finished. Repository can be found at  Github. For documentation consult  Moodle Docs - GeoGebra filter). The MOODLE_XX_STABLE branches can be considered stable - master is in development (Contact: Christoph Reinisch <christoph.reinisch@…>). For installation the best way is to use  Git for Administrators, since it's the easiest way for you to stay up to date (both with the moodle-core, plugin and the jar files).

Information on getting the filter in plugins and modules database and consolidate the existing filters see  CONTRIB-3025 in the Moodle tracker.

SCORM

Possibilities to get GeoGebra into a Scorm package:

Either way you don't get any help from the tool when defining what the student has to do in order to get points for the assignment or store any values - and you can't use it in test questions.

Possibilities in Moodle

There are actually six plugintypes in Moodle which can be interesting for us (there are a lot more, but these are in question).

  • Filter (is available)
  • Repositories
  • Assignment
  • Questiontypes
  • Module
  • Scorm (actually no plugin)

Filter

See above section. If you don't want to copy/paste the applet code it is a good possibility to embed GeoGebra files to (almost) every ressource or activity in Moodle. I updated the filter, because it is used in courses and I didn't want that the upgrade of Moodle fails because of a outdated Filter.

Repositories

Repositories provide a way to use Moodle's filepicker??? to add content or links to Courses and Moodle ressources or activities. This looks like a good way to provide a strong link between Moodle and GeoGebraTube. It should be easy to implement and can be done quickly. We're currently working on this, stay tuned.

Assignment

Assignments can be used for giving students the possibility to hand in a text or upload files. We could just embed the applet instead of the rich text editor and store the file in Moodle. Probably we should also provide a way to automatically grade the outcome, I will come to automatic grading later.

Questiontypes

We should definitely develop a questiontype for GeoGebra with the option to manually and automatically grade the outcome.

Module

The other modules are activities like forum, chat, choices, lessons, glossary which are all very different from assigning tasks to students and provide a way to interact with moodle or in class. Thats why I think we should provide the first four, and probably use this for "Collaborative GeoGebra"

SCORM

Scorm needs some more investigation. But could be an interesting way to generate standards compliant GeoGebra packages with more than one worksheet, automatic grading,... Another advantage with scorm it should be possble to integrate GeoGebra in any "good" LMS.

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