Presentation
Maintained by
Matt Bury
Displays multimedia HTML5 presentations and slide shows in users' web browsers. A web friendly and more feature rich alternative to MS PowerPoint and PDF. However, presentations must be uploaded to moodledata via FTP and you'll need to learn some basic HTML to create presentations for it.
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Re: uploading files another way, the issue is with Moodle's file management system. Any HTML + JS or XML driven presentation needs predictable file paths so that they aren't broken when the package is uploaded. I can't see an easy way to do that currently, hence the File System + FTP workaround.
Each actual slide show is a single HTML fragment with pages divided by tags.
Something else I've come across, different OS' and browsers interpret audio and video autoplay parameters differently which can mess up standalone presentations, e.g. if you want audio to play continuously or to play when a slide appears. HTML5 has yet to be sufficiently standardised.
Is there any way to use this with files uploaded another way, maybe a folder?
-Derek
The latest version moves an example presentation to /moodledata/repository/revealjs/_revealjs_/matbury/sdl_learner/ when you install it for the first time. If it doesn't get moved during the install process when you click on "save settings", then you'll have to move it manually.
Good luck!
I've tested it on Windows and Linux and it should work on both platforms.
Also, there may be issues if you have a non-standard server configuration, e.g. files stored on a different server to Moodle. Please check and let me know if that's the case.
There are a number of applications for creating slide shows that people have different preferences for. I wonder if it might be a more productive strategy to focus on conversion software/apps to convert different presentation formats into ones that Moodle already supports?
Additionally, I think the Book module is as good an authoring tool for PPT style slide shows as any, and simpler and easier to use, with better support for different media file formats, and more options (and no more stupid transitions and awful page layouts that often take up more of the author's time than the actual learning content!?). Perhaps developing support tutorials for staff that are "stuck in the Microsoft rut" could be less problematic and time consuming in the longer term? Or perhaps I'm asking too much - I understand how much of a challenge changing the way people work can be.
It appears that the module can't find any presentation files. All I can suggest is that you double-check the /moodledata/repository/revealjscontent/aaaaa/... directory structure and make sure that those directories are accessible to the /moodle/mod/revealjs/content.php script. (Perhaps there's a permissions issue?)
The thing is that we have a lot of Powerpoint presentations already and teachers are familiar with it in their class rooms. They're not that familiar with ICT and Moodle (yet). Most of them do not know HTML.
One of my priorities is moving away from distributing powerpoints to students (as they might not have that installed on all their devices) and I really want to avoid just converting them to PDFs or similar. Exporting them to images is no problem but it takes time to place them on pages in Moodle one by one (perhaps there's a better way?)
So I've been thinking about a plugin where one would upload a number of exported powerpoint images which are then automatically shown in reveal.js sorted by filename . That is, a much more limited version than you've created.
What do you think, are the use cases different enough that it warrants creating a "competing" reveal.js plugin? Please let me know if I'm thinking inside the box and I'm missing any obvious alternatives.
Best regards,
Jonas
But my problem not is in create presentation file (.html), my problem is in create one activity using plugin "presentation"
In the bellow link, is the image of error:
I can't select the presentation file for my activity..
Appears only " Choose File" , but I can't to do more nothing, because the file is required
http://m2.matbury.com/mod/revealjs/content.php/aaaaa/matbury/hello_world/slideshow.html (This will display the raw HTML fragment, not the slideshow)
Here's the URL to an image:
So on your Moodle, it should be something like:
http://www.multiwaycursos.com.br/ead/mod/revealjs/content.php/aaaaa/rafael/moodlecurse/index.html
I'll be away for about a week so I won't be able to reply for a while. Post any further questions here and I'll get back to you when I can.
My Moodle is http://www.multiwaycursos.com.br/ead
My content.php file is http://www.multiwaycursos.com.br/ead/mod/revealjs/content.php
My mooldedate folder is in server root, outside folder /pubilc_html/.
This the root... /moodledata/repository/revealjscontent
/server-site-root/moodedata/repository/revealjscontent/aaaaa/etc...
and
/server-site-root/htdocs*/moodle/...
*or public_html, www, or whatever your public directory is. Please note that /moodledata/ is outside the public directory and so cannot be accessed directly via HTTP connections. The proxy script:
/server-site-root/htdocs*/moodle/mod/revealjs/content.php
fetches the files from /moodledata/repository/revealjscontent/ for you.