Here’s a really slick application of drag and drop for Moodle. The block, according to Davo Smith, the developer, is simply a proof of concept for adding easy drag and drop functionality to Moodle courses. That said, for Moodle 2.0 it works like a charm.
Install the block and voila: drag and drop functionality to the topic/week areas within any course where the block is available. It’s very easy to use. I look forward to it being finished and submitted to the Moodle Addon’s database at Moodle.org.
To download and check out the block on a test site only visit: https://github.com/davosmith/moodle-block_dndupload. Watch a quick (1 minute) screencast of the block I made below [direct link: http://www.screenr.com/CDBs]
Thanks for the write-up. I’m hoping to tidy this up, check it for security and publish it properly as soon as I can.
Really good to see this in Moodle; we’ve got an equivalent for an in-house developed application, but haven’t had time to port it to Moodle (or more accurately, can’t make a credible argument for developer time to duplicate existing functionality), much to the frustration of the local Moodle users!
Davo, the main thing I would say is if you can add an upload progress dialog, it will probably help a lot. I suspect otherwise when uploading large files it will look like nothing is happening, while the upload goes on, and users may try uploading the file several times…
nice 🙂
In case you’ve missed it, the finished(?) version is now available to download from the Moodle plugins database.
Good one Davo!