Greenhead College VLE External

This resource allows you to create 'Lightbox' enabled image galleries within your Moodle course. The Lightbox system is a set of scripts than can be used to apply nice effects to image galleries - more info can be found here.

As a course teacher, you are able to create, edit and delete galleries. The main configuration option involves telling Moodle which directory contains the images you want to include in the gallery. After you've finished configuration, small thumbnails will be generated, which are used for the thumbnail view of the gallery. You can user the Image Editor to tag images with keywords which can then be used for searching.

Clicking on any of the thumbnails brings that image into focus, and allows you to scroll through the gallery at your leisure. Using the Lightbox scripts creates nice transition effects when loading and scrolling through the images.

You can give users the capability to add their own images to galleries, the following screen shows the Add Image screen in action.

If you enable RSS feeds for any galleries, you can use any reader that supports media feeds to download the RSS. One such program is the CoolIris plugin for Firefox, which creates nice looking effects with gallery feeds. See the following video for an example: RSS CoolIris Demo.

Changelog

• Version 2.2.1: Small bug fixes (including tag and crop editing plugins) and enhancements.
• Version 2.2: New features and clean up;
  • XHTML compliant
  • Upgraded javascript libraries
  • Glowing thumbnails
• Version 2.1: New features and fixes;
  • Automatic image tagging (IPTC support)
  • Upload zip archive of files
  • Lots of smaller improvements
• Version 2.0.1: Minor bug fixes.
• Version 2.0: Lots of new features added, including;
  • Allow users to add their own images to galleries
  • RSS feed support
  • Backup and restore
  • Tagging and searching of images
• Version 1.3: Fixed two bugs that were present in the previous version.
• Version 1.2: Added image editor, ability to add captions to images and extended image info.
• Version 1.1: Added pagination and commenting options to galleries.

Language Pack

• Basque (eu_utf8)
• Catalan (ca_utf8)
• French (fr_utf8)
• German (de_utf8)
• Hebrew (he_utf8)
• Hungarian (hu_utf8)
• Italian (it_utf8)
• Japanese (ja_utf8)
• Portuguese - Brasil (pt_br_utf8)
• Russian (ru_utf8)
• Spanish (es_utf8)

If you can translate this plugin into your own language, please contact me and I'll post the translation here.