Using Mediabird Study Notes

Overview

In-place note taking using Mediabird Study Notes.

Context-based, collaborative note taking in Moodle

Using Mediabird Study Notes allows for taking notes related to any page in your Moodle course. With the collaborative Mediabird notepad, you can note down anything that comes up in your mind, drag and drop content onto the note sheet or search notes shared by your study mates.

All notes taken using Mediabird Study Notes can be annotated, tagged and shared. This way, problems in understanding course material can be solved quickly and collaboratively.

Setup

The basic setup is very simple.

• Download the Mediabird Study Notes packages
• Extract the archive into the moodle folder of your installation
• Log in to Moodle as admin and go to the admin page
• Add the Mediabird Study Notes activity to a course

Setting up in-place note taking (recommended)

If you want to take notes while studying, you can enable the in-place note taking function that displays an icon on all pages of a course. Clicking on that icon displays the Mediabird notepad and allows for taking notes in-place. These can be reviewed in the activity later on.

Using the included theme

If you don't mind about the theme you use, you may easily

• go to Appearance in the admin panel
• select Theme Selector and choose standardmediabird

Note: If the theme does not appear in the list, make sure you've extracted it from the Mediabird Study Notes packages into the theme folder of your Moodle installation.

Using a custom theme

If you are using your own theme, all you need to add is the following line in the file header.html from your theme folder <?php

 include_once($CFG->dirroot.'/mod/studynotes/ext/overlay_snippet.php');

?> after the line