Sloodle Presenter plugins

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This page lists the plugins for the SLOODLE Presenter. This is a system which is currently in development, and will hopefully be released in SLOODLE 0.4.1.

Contents 1 Plugin Types 1.1 Core Slide Plugins 1.1.1 Image 1.1.2 Web Page 1.1.3 Video 1.2 Extra Slide Plugins 1.2.1 LaTeX 1.2.2 Bar Chart 1.2.3 Pie Chart 1.3 Importer Plugins 1.3.1 PDF 1.3.2 PowerPoint

Plugin Types

The Presenter will support two main types of plugins -- slides and importers. The "slide" plugins will represent different types of slides which can be added to a presentation. Ultimately, they have to be able to dynamically render the content in a format which Second Life can support (image, web, audio or video). The "importer" plugins will take a file, process it, and output a series of slides of some existing type. This is useful when on-the-fly rendering is not suitable.

A plugin will be installed by copying the folder to the appropriate location in the SLOODLE installation, probably "sloodle/plugin/presenter"/

Core Slide Plugins

Image

This is a core slide type -- it simply stores the name/URL of an image file (whether in Moodle or externally), and outputs the URL directly to SL or the user's web-browser for viewing.

Web Page

This is a core slide type. It stores the URL of a webpage, and outputs it directly to SL for in-world viewing. For viewing in Moodle, it will display the webpage in an iFrame.

Video

This is a core slide type. It stores the name/URL of a video file (whether in Moodle or externally), and provides that directly to SL for in-world viewing. The video is embedded in the webpage for Moodle viewing. If the URL provided is not a video file (i.e. it doesn't have an extension like .mov or .mp4), then it will be processed to see if it is a URL from a video sharing site, such as YouTube. In such cases, an appropriate video file URL will be sent into SL, and a suitable embedded player will be displayed in Moodle.

Extra Slide Plugins

LaTeX

Mathematical equations will be dynamically rendered as image slides, using either the LaTeX binaries (if available) or a substitute library, such as MiMeTex.

Bar Chart

A bar chart defined in Moodle will be rendered using a PHP graphics library, and represented like an image slide.

Pie Chart

A pie chart defined in Moodle will be rendered using a PHP graphics library, and represented like an image slide.

Importer Plugins

PDF

A PDF file will be converted into a series of image slides.

PowerPoint

A PowerPoint presentation will be converted into a series of image slides.

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