Wordcloud

Maintained by e-Learning Team University of Vienna

With the wordcloud activity, it is possible to collect terms together with your course participants in a brainstorming process and to display them graphically in order of frequency. This can be used, for example, to capture a picture of the mood or to create a basis for a discussion.

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Supports Moodle 3.10-5.0 See all versions

Latest release: 1 year ago

Installations: 567

Downloads (last 90 days): 214

Frankenstyle name: mod_wordcloud

Activities

Wordcloud Activity

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Examples

Use the Wordcloud as an introduction to a new topic.
Query the prior knowledge of your students.
Get a mood picture on a topic.

Installation

Copy the module code directly to the *moodleroot/mod/wordcloud* directory.
Log into Moodle as administrator.
Open the administration area (*http://your-moodle-site/admin*) to start the installation automatically.

Admin Settings

An administrator can adjust the instance wide refresh time for the wordcloud, which sets the interval on how often the client ask the server if there is a change to a specific wordcloud.
The font colors of the wordcloud are also adjustable in the settings.

Refresh time (wordcloud | refresh)
Auto refresh interval in seconds.
Textcolor 1 to 6 (wordcloud | fontcolor1 ... fontcolor6)
Textcolor for font size 1 to 6. Colors are set as hexcode.