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Add gadget in Home page nugget
Reported by Naomi Krant from Pierce College
Description:
Is it possible to get an empty nugget for the Home page? Instead of the Wikipedia nugget on the Home page, I'd like to add the gadget that will allow my students to search the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English. I can get the code for the gadget, but is there a way to get an empty nugget ?
Responses:
Ed Bachmann from Pierce College:
Placing new Nuggets on the Home page is done by using the Edit Page link in the upper left of the display area. You are only able to add from the listed listed nuggets when you click the Add Component button in the Edit Page display. If you have a new Nugget that you'd like to be included in the optional "Components" list, I would share that interest and resource with Mark Carbon and Connie Broughton at WAOL.
All users, including students, can customize their Home page nuggets and layout. If you want to be sure the students have access to a resources, you could include it on the Course start page or Resources tab (if it is in the list of available components). The Course page is set by the instructor and not customizable by students, like the Home page is.
I expect that WAOL is working on priorities like full SMS integration, moving to version 7.4 and fully using Angel's basic resources like LORs and Community Groups. It may be awhile before the figure out how to review requests like yours. I expect eventually there will be a process for the Angel domain users to come together to propose added components. There are many things that will need to be considered as the system makes such enhancements.
I wonder if the short term solution would be to use some other generic nugget in which you can provide a link to the resource that will remain on the Home/Course page? "Did you know" and "Course Information" might be candidates.
(BTW, I took the Wikipedia nugget off the Course page when adding the About the Course/Section nugget....)
Description:
Is it possible to get an empty nugget for the Home page? Instead of the Wikipedia nugget on the Home page, I'd like to add the gadget that will allow my students to search the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English. I can get the code for the gadget, but is there a way to get an empty nugget ?
Responses:
Ed Bachmann from Pierce College:
Placing new Nuggets on the Home page is done by using the Edit Page link in the upper left of the display area. You are only able to add from the listed listed nuggets when you click the Add Component button in the Edit Page display. If you have a new Nugget that you'd like to be included in the optional "Components" list, I would share that interest and resource with Mark Carbon and Connie Broughton at WAOL.
All users, including students, can customize their Home page nuggets and layout. If you want to be sure the students have access to a resources, you could include it on the Course start page or Resources tab (if it is in the list of available components). The Course page is set by the instructor and not customizable by students, like the Home page is.
I expect that WAOL is working on priorities like full SMS integration, moving to version 7.4 and fully using Angel's basic resources like LORs and Community Groups. It may be awhile before the figure out how to review requests like yours. I expect eventually there will be a process for the Angel domain users to come together to propose added components. There are many things that will need to be considered as the system makes such enhancements.
I wonder if the short term solution would be to use some other generic nugget in which you can provide a link to the resource that will remain on the Home/Course page? "Did you know" and "Course Information" might be candidates.
Addendum: Given that Google gadget is really just a fancy link to their web site, I use the option to add it to a Web page/site. Once I got to your classroom, it took about a minute to place it there.
On the Google page, after selecting the Website option, I previewed the gadget and then clicked Get the Code. That opened a text area with the HTML code for the gadget that I then highlighted and copied using the ctrl-C keyboard shortcut. I then logged into and got to your classroom Course page.
a) From the Course page I clicked Edit Page
b) I clicked Add components and scanned the list for "About the Course" nugget, then checked it as one to add to the page and clicked submit
c) I dragged the now labeled "About the Section" nugget to just below the Grades nugget in the left column.
d) I saved the Edit Page changes
e) I clicked the pencil edit tool in the top bar of the new nugget
f) When the editor window opened, I selected the toolbar icon for Source (far right of the editor tools), then pasted the copied code into the text area using ctrl-v.
g) I saved that added item and it displays in the nugget on the course page!
That was simple!! When a student uses it, the gadget opens a new window that the user then can drill down to the definition. You might want to append that item by modifying the instructions I entered - what to do with the text entry field and what to do to return to the classroom (close the Gadget window when done).
(BTW, I took the Wikipedia nugget off the Course page when adding the About the Course/Section nugget....)
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