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30 October 2012, 12:55

Dear All,

There seems to be a default icon that appears when QM Plus does not recognise the type of activity. For example, this ('sheet of paper'?) appears next to my Hot Potatoes exercises. I was just wondering if anyone knows any way of changing it and selecting/uploading another?

William Tweddle

05 November 2012, 13:39

Hi William

I'm Brett and I've been working with our theme designers on the QMplus iconset. I have made a couple of tweaks to the icons in our stage environment. There are two things I have noticed:

1. the .wma files you are uploading are not being picked up by the audio icon...so you are getting the sheet of paper to which you refer (the generic 'resources icon') with a question mark. I will fix that.

2. Your hot potatoes quizzes are now being picked up with the HTML icon. I hope that is ok.

These enhancements should be being installed on the live server this week.

All the best

Brett

05 November 2012, 14:58

Dear Brett

Thank you very much. The HTML icon will be much better, but is there any way of choosing and adding our own (as there was on Blackboard)?

Best,

William

05 November 2012, 17:49

Hi William

The icon is associated with the resource type adnd as such this is hardwired into the system...you cannot change it.

However...I have created as part of the design but not publicised at all yet, a series of CSS classes that can be added to an unordered list within the html. These allow you to embed icons onto a Moodle page, book or your homepage..but in a slightly different way.

E.g. if you wanted to add a book icon to a link to show your students that it was a book that they were going tyo open when they selected that link...you would open the html window, position your mouse to where you want the link to be and type:

<ul>

<li class="modbook">The link text goes here</li>

<ul>

If you were on the course homepage you would have to add this code to a label...you would then copy the resource link into the link text.

Some example classes are listed below. The image video and audio icons are forthcoming.

Please let me know if you need more assistance..

The following is the code for the icons we currently have:

<ul>
<li class="modpage">Page</li>
<li class="modbook">Book</li>
<li class="modassignment">Assignment</li>
<li class="modsubmission">Submission Manager</li>
<li class="modurl">Url</li>
<li class="modpdf">Pdf</li>
<li class="moddoc">Doc</li>
<li class="modzip">Zip</li>
<li class="modquiz">Quiz</li>
<li class="modforum">Forum</li>
<li class="modlightbox">Lightbox</li>
<li class="modppt">Powerpoint</li>

</ul>