[Moodle] Enabling students to upload graphics into forums

[Laurie Savage]

Thanks, that's the path I'd taken.

Laurie

Roland Gesthuizen wrote:
> I get them to use the attachment option. Any pictures that are attached 
> can be viewed in the forum browser. Recently we used this feature to 
> gather images of clouds that the group then went on to grade and score. 
> We could have done this with a glossary / gallery but I wanted to get a 
> bit of a dialogue going. Interesting enough, if you look under bonnet at 
> the forum and glossary moodle code, it is theoretically possible to have 
> more than one attachment. Not sure why they limit it to just one per 
> message, perhaps this is a 'soon to come' feature.
> 
> Regards Roland
> 
> On 03/05/06, *Stephen Digby* <digby.stephen.p at edumail.vic.gov.au 
> <mailto:digby.stephen.p at edumail.vic.gov.au>> wrote:
> 
>     Yes... Links and image handling are the worst aspects of moodle.
>     In wiki's the link process provided by the HTML editor won't work at
>     all as you have to use the [text|link] format a la wikipedia.
>     If you send a link direct to alocal file e.g. <a href
>     "file///h:/fred.doc etc etc, the moodle interpreter alters it to
>     http://h/fred
>     etc etc so that it doesn't find the folder or file.
> 
>     Things will get better as moodle develops developer support ....
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>     Subject: [Moodle] Enabling students to upload graphics into forums
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>     I've set up the Footy tipping forum as a social class and to keep it
>     light and fun want to enable students to upload pictures in
>     their posts.
>     When they attempt this they see a dialog like this which seems more
>     hindrance than help.
> 
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Laurie Savage
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