Sookooroo module

The Sookooroo module allows a course manager to add a link to a Sookooroo virtual room in a course section.

Sookooroo modules and blocks on the course page

Inside the Sookooroo virtual room

Features

• Course participants can access the virtual room without signing up on the Sookooroo website.
• Moodle pictures of users who are in the room are displayed both on the course page and in the virtual room.
• Guests can access to the virtual room when the course is open to guests. Guests are assigned unique keys and obtain distinct identities in the virtual room.
• Users with capability sookooroo:moderator are identified as such in the virtual room (defaults to editingteacher and manager roles).
• The same room can be linked from different moodle courses (as well as from outside moodle).

Installation

Git clone

• Type the following command in the root of your Moodle install: git clone git://github.com/itamart/moodle-mod_sookooroo.git mod/sookooroo
• Add /mod/sookooroo to your .git/info/exclude.
• Visit http://yoursite.com/admin to finish the installation.

Download

• Download zip from: https://github.com/itamart/moodle-mod_sookooroo/zipball/master or http://moodle.org/plugins/pluginversions.php?plugin=mod_sookooroo
• Unzip into the 'mod' subfolder of your Moodle install.
• Rename the new folder to sookooroo.
• Visit http://yoursite.com/admin to finish the installation.

Configuration

• Website id: The website id as obtained from the Sookooroo website.
• Room id: The designated virtual room in the website.
• Button text: The label of the entry button.

The Sookooroo settings

See also

• Versions info and downloads: Sookooroo module in Moodle's plugins repository.
• Discussions: Contributed plugins
• Sookooroo block documentation and plugin entry in Moodle plugins repository.