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Course search

2019-07-10T18:00:35Z

Schweit@isu:

Since Moodle 3.1 this functionality has been superseded by the core Global Search functionality: https://docs.moodle.org/311/en/Global_search

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{{Infobox plugin
|type = Course search plugin
|entry = https://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=tool_coursesearch
|tracker = https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/CONTRIB-4335
|discussion = https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=230469
|maintainer = [https://moodle.org/user/profile.php?id=1565325 Shashikant Vaishnav]
|float = right
}}

== Introduction ==

'''"Advance course search"''' is a plugin that makes course search more flexible, fast , case-insensitive and can sort results by relevance. The plugin
also have the capability to search into course attachments(course overview files and summary files). Its gives more powerful way of searching
into courses via features like results caching, Sorting with different aspects, spelling correction(Did you mean?) feature, fuzzy search
(alternate form of words).

== Installation ==

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=== Prerequisite ===

Java 5 or higher (a.k.a. 1.5.x), PHP 5.1.4 or higher, moodle 2.5 or higher.

=== Installing admin tool ===

1. Download the admin tool from here. (https://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=tool_coursesearch)

2. Extract the Course Search folder. Put it under moodle installation/admin/tool directory.

3. It should be named coursesearch. If you are already logged in just refreshing the browser should trigger your moodle
site to begin the install 'Plugins Check'.

4. If not then navigate to Administration > Notifications.

=== Installing search_cleantheme OR replacing/copying the renderer.php file ===

Here is two options either you may replace/copy your existing theme renderer with the one found in
search_cleantheme(https://github.com/shashirepo/moodle-theme_cleantheme).
OR you may install cleantheme itself.

replacing /copying the renderer file to your theme.

1. Copy renderer.php file from search_cleantheme replace it with your theme's renderer file.

2. Standard moodle theme doesn't have any renderer file so you may simply copy this to your
theme directory.

3. Rename renderer class name according to your theme name.

for example if you are using theme 'clean'.
then rename the class names to 'theme_clean_core_renderer' & 'theme_clean_core_course_renderer'.

OR you may either use search_cleantheme. This is based on bootstrap clean theme.

1. Download the cleantheme from here (https://github.com/shashirepo/moodle-theme_cleantheme)

2. Extract the theme folder. and put it under moodle installation theme directory.

3. If you are already logged in just refreshing the browser should trigger your Moodle
site to begin the install 'Plugins Check'.

4. If not then navigate to Administration > Notifications.

=== Installing Solr & placing the plugin Schema ===

Download the latest Solr 4.4.0 release from:
http://lucene.apache.org/solr/

Unpack the tarball somewhere not visible to the web (not in your apache docroot
and not inside of your moodle directory).

The Solr download comes with an example application that you can use for
testing, development, and even for smaller production sites. This
application is found at apache-solr-4.4.0/example.

Move apache-solr-4.4.0/example/solr/collection1/conf/schema.xml and rename it to
something like schema.bak. Then move the schema.xml that comes
with moodle course search admin tool plugin to take its place.

Similarly, move apache-solr-4.4.0/example/solr/collection1/conf/solrconfig.xml and rename
it like solrconfig.bak. Then move the solrconfig.xml that comes with the
moodle course search admin tool plugin to take its place.

Finally, move apache-solr-4.4.0/example/solr/collection1/conf/protwords.txt and rename
it like protwords.bak. Then move the protwords.txt that comes with the
moodle course search admin tool plugin to take its place.

Make sure that the conf directory includes the following files - the Solr core
may not load if you don't have at least an empty file present:
solrconfig.xml
schema.xml
elevate.xml
mapping-ISOLatin1Accent.txt
protwords.txt
stopwords.txt
synonyms.txt

Now start the solr application by opening a shell, changing directory to
apache-solr-4.4.0/example, and executing the command java -jar start.jar

Test that your solr server is now available by visiting
http://localhost:8983/solr/admin/

=== Testing with ping to solr ===

1. Advance Course can be found under :-

Administration->course->Course search settings(URL:- http://127.0.0.1/MoodleInstalltionURL/admin/tool/coursesearch)

2. Give the solr configuration options here:-

Solr Host:- localhost or 127.0.0.1
Solr Port:- 8983 (Default port for Solr )
Solr path :- /solr (Configuration directory for solr)

3. Click on "Check Solr instance Setting". if it Shows ping successful(with an success image). Now click save changes.

4. Now click on "Index courses" to index all the courses. After successful indexing. It will come up with a success image.

5. Click on "Optimize" to optimize the existing indexes And improve solr performance.

Enjoy the Search by going on page (http://127.0.0.1/MoodleInstallationURL/course/search.php)

To configure navigation with the course search page goto Site administration -> Front page -> Front page settings.

== Features ==

* works consistently on different DB engines and different content languages( Non latin languages support)

* Search results with relevance( Score )

* Case insensitive search capability

* Searchable Document Formats

* Hyper Text Markup Language
* XML and derived formats
* Microsoft Office document formats
* Open Document Format
* Portable Document Format
* Rich Text Format
* Compression and packaging formats [See Rebuilding Solr Cell]
* Text formats

* Autocomplete ( autosuggest with non-latin languages too )

* Very fast than existing course search implementation.

* Spell Checking capability ( Did you mean ?)

* Keyword Matching (Searching within specific field)

Example :- "summary:Getting started with python" searches for the "Getting started with python" in summary field of courses.

* Proximity Search

Example :- "moodle perth"~4 Search for "moodle perth" within 4 words from each other.

* Wildcard Search

* Fuzzy search support ( Alternate form of words )

* Filtering results by startdate (Range queries)

* Pagination & sorting results by relevance, startdate, shortname.

== How it works ? ==

* '''Flow diagram'''

[[File:coursesearch_flow.png]]

== How to report a bug ==

Please, use Tracker[https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/CONTRIB-4335]

== Credits ==

* '''Mentors:''' [https://moodle.org/user/profile.php?id=1334243&course=5 Marina Glancy] & [https://moodle.org/user/profile.php?id=381842 Michael de Raadt]

== See also ==

* [https://docs.moodle.org/dev/GSOC/2013 Moodle GSoC projects for 2013]
* [https://docs.moodle.org/dev/GSOC Moodle GSoC Overview page]
* [http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2013/shashitechno/1 GSOC Proposal]
* [https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Projects_for_new_developers#Course_search Original idea]

RTCollaboration

2017-09-27T19:26:12Z

Schweit@isu:

{{RTCollaboration}}

Warning: This plugin has not been maintained since Moodle 2.1 and is unlikely to work with current, supported versions of Moodle.

== Introduction ==

RTollaboration is a type of assignment.

It's a collaborative real-time editor that works like Google Docs.

Two or more users can work at the same time in the same document. When you type a word, the text is updated in real-time for the other users.

Groups are supported.

Teachers can review theirs students job, for every student the total account of chars added or deleted by him in the text is displayed in the submissions view of the assignment.

Teachers can also "replay" the users interactions with the editor

== Instaling ==

For installing, unzip the plugin in the mod/assignment/type directory, rename the directory from jleyva-moodle-assignment_rtcollaboration-be... to rtcollaboration

Go to Administration -> Notifications

== Submitting ==

The texts are automatically submitted for grading during the 24 hours previous the due time of the assignment.

The cron job must be enabled in the server.

Teachers can view theirs students works at any time.

== Credits ==

Juan Leyva [http://moodle.org/user/view.php?id=49568&course=1 Moodle profile]

[http://twitter.com/jleyvadelgado Follow me in Twitter]

RTCollaboration uses a [http://code.google.com/p/google-mobwrite/wiki/Protocol protocol] created by Neil Fraiser at Google Inc

=== References ===

* http://code.google.com/p/google-diff-match-patch/wiki/API
* http://code.google.com/p/google-mobwrite/

[[Category:Contributed code]]

== See also ==

* [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=169860 Help forum]

* [http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=13&rid=4621 Plugin entry]

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Grade settings

2016-09-14T17:22:39Z

Schweit@isu: Adding note about roles needing to be active for suspended users to appear in the grader report.

{{Grades}}
==Course grade settings==

[[File:Course grade settings.png|thumb|Course grade settings]]Course grade settings determine how the gradebook appears for all participants in the course.

Course grade settings are found in ''Administration > Grade administration > Course grade settings'' or via the gradebook Settings tab.

The default course grade settings are set by an administrator in ''Administration > Site administration > Grades''.

==Grader report preferences==

[[File:Grader report preferences.png|thumb|Grader report preferences]]Teachers can set their preferences for the grader report via 'My preferences' These settings will apply to all courses for that teacher. The teacher may change them at any time.

For example it's possible to set the grader report to only show active participants or all participants (including suspended users) from the ''Show only active enrolments'' setting. Users may be suspended from the course by changing their status in ''Enrolled users>Edit enrolment.'' The user's role must not be removed when suspending the user or they will not show up in the grader report even if the "Show only active enrolments" option is set to "No."

The default grader report preferences are set by an administrator in ''Administration > Site administration > Grades > Report settings > Grader report''.

In Moodle 2.4.2 onwards, the default number of students per page (''grade_report_studentsperpage'') can safely be increased without any loss of data when grading large numbers of students with many assignments.

==Site administration settings==

Default values for all grade settings can be set by an administrator. The easiest way to do so is to log in as admin then browse a course gradebook and follow the 'Change defaults' links.

The following additional grade settings can be found in ''Administration > Site administration > Grades > General settings''. The settings will affect all gradebooks used by all teachers.

===Graded Roles===

Graded roles are the type of user that will appear in the gradebook. Most of the time "student" is the only one needed.

===User profile report===

The default user profile report setting has just one option, 'User report', unless a custom user report has been added to the site.

Teachers can view the user reports for all or selected students in the course in ''Administration > Grades administration > User report''.

===Include scales in aggregation===
Scales can be included as numbers in all aggregated grades across all gradebooks in all courses. Changing this setting will force all aggregated grades to be recalculated.

If this is checked (and it is by default) then all custom scales will have a corresponding value that is assigned based on the number of options in the scale (ie. three values will have values of 1,2,3) and this will be included in the grade aggregation.

===Enable publishing===
[[Image:gradepublishing.png|thumb|Grade publishing settings]]
Grade publishing is a way of importing and exporting grades via a URL without being logged in to Moodle. Grade publishing is intended for administrators only. Security implications should be thoroughly considered before allowing non-admin users to publish grades.

Grade publishing may be enabled by checking the gradepublishing box. If enabled, administrators are provided with [[Grade export|grade export]] publishing settings in each course gradebook.

===Recover grades default===

When [[Enrolled users|manually enrolling]] a student in a course, there is an option 'Recover user's old grades if possible', however this checkbox is easy to miss. Enabling 'Recover grades default' results in 'Recover user's old grades if possible' being ticked for every course.

[[File:enrol users enrolment options.png]]

===Unlimited grades===
Teachers can enter grades over 100% directly in the gradebook if the ''unlimitedgrades'' setting is enabled.

==Grade point maximum/Grade point default==

The administrator can set here the maximum point value in activities, and also the default point value which will appear when a teacher uses points for activities in their course. (Both these are set to 100 initially)

[[File:gradepointmaxdefault.png]]

==Grade capabilities==

*[[Capabilities/moodle/grade:edit|Edit grades]]
*[[Capabilities/moodle/grade:export|Export grades]]
*[[Capabilities/moodle/grade:hide|Hide/unhide grades or items]]
*[[Capabilities/moodle/grade:import|Import grades]]
*[[Capabilities/moodle/grade:lock|Lock grades or items]]
*[[Capabilities/moodle/grade:manage|Manage grade items]]
*[[Capabilities/moodle/grade:managegradingforms|Manage advanced grading methods]]
*[[Capabilities/moodle/grade:manageletters|Manage grade letters]]
*[[Capabilities/moodle/grade:manageoutcomes|Manage grade outcomes]]
*[[Capabilities/moodle/grade:unlock|Unlock grades or items]]
*[[Capabilities/moodle/grade:view|View own grades]]
*[[Capabilities/moodle/grade:viewall|View grades of other users]]
*[[Capabilities/moodle/grade:viewhidden|View hidden grades for owner]]

==See also==
*[http://youtu.be/QWE0c_-NjHE Moodle 2 Grades Administration settings] MoodleBites video on YouTube
* [https://youtu.be/lWcheVbQe2E The Moodle Gradebook for Teachers] MoodleBites video on YouTube

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