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This block is used to allow teachers to provide their students with an easy way of using an external search engine from within a course page. | This block is used to allow teachers to provide their students with an easy way of using an external search engine from within a course page. | ||
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=Installation= | =Installation= | ||
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# Visit the <tt>/admin/index.php</tt> page to trigger the module installation. | # Visit the <tt>/admin/index.php</tt> page to trigger the module installation. | ||
# Change the default options in the block configuration. For example, you will need to provide [http://www.digitalnz.org/dashboard/api_key your own API key] if you want to enable the Digital NZ search functionality. | # Change the default options in the block configuration. For example, you will need to provide [http://www.digitalnz.org/dashboard/api_key your own API key] if you want to enable the Digital NZ search functionality. | ||
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* [http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=13&rid=2337 Download] | * [http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=13&rid=2337 Download] | ||
Revision as of 01:56, 22 April 2009
This block is used to allow teachers to provide their students with an easy way of using an external search engine from within a course page.
Installation
- Unpack the module into your Moodle installation in order to create a blocks/extsearch directory
- Visit the /admin/index.php page to trigger the module installation.
- Change the default options in the block configuration. For example, you will need to provide your own API key if you want to enable the Digital NZ search functionality.
