Forums | E-Learning Practitioners

20 October 2013, 18:44

I am building in embedded PDFs to my book modules.

It works really good when it comes to PDFs hosted on other websites, such as the Campus map on the College Website.

I have two questions however:

1) Is there an easy and fast way to determining the URL to files you have uploaded to QMPlus? I managed to do it by "copy shortcut", however this is not very straight forward and sometimes I have to play around to be able to get the URL. Is there a simpler way?

I use this code:

<p><iframe height="600" src="http://qmplus.qmul.ac.uk/pluginfile.php/363711/mod_folder/content/1/ST4.pdf" width="100%"></iframe></p>

2) When I finally manage to get the URL it works quite well until I try to link to a PDF in folder. Even if I take away "?forcedownload=1" in http://qmplus.qmul.ac.uk/pluginfile.php/363711/mod_folder/content/1/ST4.pdf?forcedownload=1 Explorer is still trying to download it automatically. What do I do wrong?

Would be really thankful if anyone had an idea how to avoid this.

Thanks,

James

21 October 2013, 9:04

I would also appreciate an easy way to incorporate pdf (and possible powerpoint files) into lesson modules.

I'm not a code writing wizard ... I really need something simple... there used to be a way to include powerpoint with a one click but the link no longer seems to work.

It seems a real shame that one of the strengths of QMPlus to develop strong learning materials is hampered by the need to be able to write code.

Michele