Stash

Hi Sue. We recommended between 200x200 and 100x100. The images weigh the same regardless of where they are displayed, on the display size changes. It is therefore not recommended to upload large images. Ideally, Moodle should offer a tool for resizing images but to my knowledge there isn't any yet. I hope this helps.

Is there a recommended pixel size for stash icons. I have added ones at 1000x1000 pixels and the same image reduced to 50x50 pixels and they are both the same size. Is there any way to reduce the size they display at?

Hi Joseph. The course reset is a good idea. I'll try to remember that.
Sorry about the inaction of late. I've been extremely busy trying to prepare for the GDPR compliance required later on this year.

Hi Frederic:
Wanted to report and verify that Carlos solution worked for adding non-editing teachers to a course--fantastic!
Small bug report: I tried resetting a course to get ready for a new semester, and it looks like Stash does not have Course Reset implemented yet (not clearing out the Stash items and locations, but rather clearing out old students and items acquired). Not a big deal, but something to implement as Stash is used more and more by teachers around the world!
Thank you!

Hi Carlos,
Thanks for sharing your enthousiasm! I believe that Adrian and I already discussed the complexity for non-editing teachers to use the plugin. I'm confident that we will simplify this in a future release.
Thanks for sharing your solution!

Problem solved. In order for a non-editing teacher to be able to view the inventory, you must access as Administrator and go to Site administration => Users => Permissions ==> Define roles. You must enable the 3 permissions related to the stash plugin (search for stash). Fantanstic plugin. Thanks

Fantastic plugin for gamification. Absolutely recommended!!!. It works fantastic in Moodle 3.4 with Adaptable Theme. The only problem is that non-editing teachers can not see the stash and all the elements that include stash snipets does not work (it appears a message error). Any solution or patch?

Small bug report:
Stash currently prevents the non-editing teacher role from working (they will get an error message and can not access your course). There are also small conflicts with the amazing Snap theme from Moodlerooms, but it is not a big deal (I think it is how Snap deals with blocks--menu navigation doesn't work but the breadcrumb trail does--not a big deal once you train teacher).
Overall, Stash is the BEST plugin for gamification of your course because it is so brilliantly implemented to allow for teacher creativity with the Trade and Availability tools for conditional access! Thank you!

Hi Frederic:
Wanted to report that backup and restore worked perfectly on a Moodle 3.2 instance with 2 very large courses (over 250MB) with several hundred activities, many Stash objects, Trades, and conditional access to activities via the Stash availability plugin...AWESOME set of tools for gamification! Can't wait to see what kind of creative things people come up with the Stash set of tools!!

will it work with moodle mobile?

Hey Joseph. What happens when you restore the backup in the description of this plugin? I tried and it worked. Perhaps you could share your backup file with me at fred at branchup dot tech, and I'll see what happens.

Hi Frederic:
Wow--thanks for your quick reply!
I was testing out seeing if my course would restore to another server with all of my Stash items / swaps / snippets intact, and I double-checked that all 3 of the Stash plugins (block, availability, and snippet filter) were the same versions. However, after performing the restore, my Stash block shows up empty.
This is a rather large course (over 270Mb) with over 20 Stash items and several trades, so it is pushing the limits!!! I will try again and restore only a small section of the course to a blank course to see if that makes a difference and report back....
Thank you again for sharing your great work with the Moodle community--I don't think there is any other tool quite like Stash out there for gamification and it's adds some much needed fun to our courses!!!

Hi Joseph,
Thanks for the kind messages.
Backup should be working, we are distributing a backup of one of our demo course in the description of the plugin here above and it seemed to work whenever we tried to restore it in other sites. Note that you must have the same suite of plugins installed on the other sites.
Could you describe a bit more what you are experiencing?

Hi Adrian and Frederic:
Just wanted to leave positive feedback that the new Stash Block, Stash Availability, and Stash snippet filter works together flawlessly and allows teachers to be quite creative with their courses (e.g. find 3 Gold Coins to trade in for a Gold Key which can than unlock an answer key or a new section of the course)....
Quick question: I was trying to test out backing up and restoring my course between servers, and it didn't look like the Stash block supported that function yet....or I might be missing a setting...
Any chance this is already implemented and I missed a checkbox, or can we request this as a future feature?
Thanks for sharing all your great work with the Moodle community!

Thanks for all the effort, I really like this plugin and will use it in my educations.
A nice addition would be to change the size of the dropped items. Right now I'm using coins which are displayed pretty large (50 px wide or so?). Changing the image resolution does not make a difference in how large they are displayed.
Making them smaller and less vissible would enhance the search effort.