Author: Adrian Czermak, Angela Baier, Thomas Wedekind

Copyright: 2020 University of Vienna

License: GNU GPL v3 or later

The wordcloud activity provides a place to collect terms together with your course participants and display them graphically in order of occurrance. This could be used in a brainstorming process or to create a base for a discussion.

• Use the Wordcloud as an introduction to a new topic.
• Query the prior knowledge of your students.
• Get a mood picture on a topic.

The plugin is available for Moodle 3.10+.

• Copy the module code directly to the moodleroot/mod/wordcloud directory.

• Log into Moodle as administrator.

• Open the administration area (http://your-moodle-site/admin) to start the installation automatically.

An administrator can adjust the instance wide refresh time for the wordcloud, which sets the interval on how often the client ask the server if there is a change to a specific wordcloud. The font colors of the wordcloud are also adjustable in the settings.

Site administration -> Plugins -> Activity modules -> Wordcloud

• Refresh time (wordcloud | refresh)
  Auto refresh interval in seconds.

• Textcolor 1 to 6 (wordcloud | fontcolor1 ... fontcolor6)
  Textcolor for font size 1 to 6. Colors are set as hexcode.

You can find further information to the plugin on the Github wiki

This plugin uses the following third-party libraries:

• JavaScript HTML renderer from html2canvas

We try our best to deliver bug-free plugins, but we can not test the plugin for every platform, database, PHP and Moodle version. If you find any bug please report it on GitHub. Please provide a detailed bug description, including the plugin and Moodle version and, if applicable, a screenshot.

You may also file a request for enhancement on GitHub. If we consider the request generally useful and if it can be implemented with reasonable effort we might implement it in a future version.

You may also post general questions on the plugin on GitHub, but note that we do not have the resources to provide detailed support.

This plugin is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

The plugin is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License with Moodle. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

Good luck and have fun!