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1: Hot Pot Stuff
03/29/06 01:19 AM
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Is it possible to implement a HotPot task into a LAMS sequence? I set up LAMS on my computer and gave it a go but the only way I could see to do it was to link to a page where the hotpot task is located. Is there a better way?

Best regards,

James Phillips

Posted by James Phillips

2: Re: Hot Pot Stuff
In response to 1 03/30/06 01:44 AM
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Hi James,

With the current version of LAMS (1.0.x) you can use an iframe with the HTML Noticeboard that will open the HotPot link directly as if it would be a LAMS activity (see the HTML Noticeboard animation wink for details.

Give it a go and let us know.

Thanks

Ernie

Posted by Ernie Ghiglione

3: Re: Re: Hot Pot Stuff
In response to 2 03/30/06 02:42 AM
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Thanks Ernie.

So I paste something along the lines of the following:
IFRAME SRC="hotpot.html" WIDTH=450 HEIGHT=500
/IFRAME

into the HTML noticeboard (I had to remove a bit of the code to get it to post).

I am currently running lams on my local PC (am awaiting the release of moodle 1.6 before trying it on a remote site). In this case, where should I locate the "hotpot.html" file on my computer? I had a look around the "LAMS" folder but couldn't find any obvious candidates (not that were obvious to me anyway!).

Best regards,

James Phillips

Posted by James Phillips

4: Re: Re: Re: Hot Pot Stuff
In response to 3 03/30/06 05:39 PM
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If you're using LAMS on your own desktop, just put the file in this directory:

C:\lams\jboss\server\default\deploy\upload.war\

where 'C:\lams' is where you installed LAMS.  Once the file is there you can access it via the URL http://localhost:8080/upload/hotpot.html, and the IFRAME stuff would look like

<IFRAME SRC="http://localhost:8080/upload/hotpot.html" WIDTH=450 HEIGHT=500>
</IFRAME>

This thread http://www.lamscommunity.org/dotlrn/clubs/educationalcommunity/gettingstarted/forums/message-view?message%5fid=90685 also talks about how to upload files to the LAMS server using Share Resources, useful if you were using LAMS on a remote server.

Posted by Jun-Dir Liew

5: Re: Re: Re: Re: Hot Pot Stuff
In response to 4 03/31/06 02:26 AM
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Thanks for that very detailed reply. I tried it with a Japanese to English translation exercise made in hotpot and it worked like a dream. Excellent.

Best regards,

James Phillips

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