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moodle integration / URL arguments
Hi,
first of all: Thanks for this project!
I'm thinking about a way to integrate scribble into a moodle course. One way would be so somehow pass arguments in the url to set up the lobby and to define usernames of everybody.
Any Ideas how to set up usernames via URL arguments for an existing lobby?
Regards
Well, the username thing is the smallest problem. The question is how / WHEN is the lobby opened?
Also, may I ask why you don't just share a lobby URL with your students via e-mail / whatever way you communicate? Would there be any benefit to integrate this into a course directly? Or do you have some kind of education in mind with this? ^^
There is a possibility to generate URL parameters in moodle - this is quite handy when it comes to automatically assign names.
How about the lobby opens with default parameters when not given other options also via URL parameter? Maybe it might also possible to integrate a scribble session in a jitsi conference lit the etherpad plugin.
Well, but who opens the lobby? Can there be multiple classes doing the same course with multiple different lobbies? Like, do you wanna define a lobby UUID yourself? Could lead to abuse i think. I don't want to offer that.
Like what's your concrete plan here? :D I don't know your exact usecase.
Ok, I think I mix up different wished here.
- simple: just an URL parameter that sets the username
- sophisticated: lobby creation via URL, maybe with some kind of access token authentification
Actually I would be very happy if 1) would work :)
Well, like said, 1 is a non problem. Putting aside the fact that usernames aren't unique.
As for 2, I am not sure what it would have to look like. I always think about abuse potential here. And i know what teens and young adults can be like ^^
I assume we'd need smth like predefined lobby profiles, so that the people doing the course can't decide upon the lobby settings. This is only important however, if the lobby is opened by the first person joining, instead of manually by the teacher.
Maybe we could for now split this into two issues, so i can already do the name thing, as that should be very easy.
hey, so I was looking into setting the username via URL and noticed that this already works :D
You can already pass username as a parameter in the URL. Setting the username via the URL also doesn't set the cookie, meaning it won't be remembered for future sessions. However, it can still be changed afterwards via the username change dialog.
I might miss here something. I also tried to append &username=xyz to the lobby-link, but the name did not change.
This only works when first joining a lobby not after you've already joined it.
Ah now I got it. It works when a) the name was not set before in any other game (cookies) and b) only if first joining the lobby. Would it be possible to enforce the name when first joining the lobby, independent of any name setting in a game before (cookies)?
Also it might be handy to have an option to hide the name-changing-button. scenario: A game with a larger amount of people/students where the name is set when joining the lobby and without any possibility to change the name within this lobby.
Thank you for your quick replys!
Regards
Well, the students can just change their name via their first join in the URL anyways, can't they? So, no matter whether the API and the UI allow name changes, it's not bulletproof.
But yeah, we can make the cookie secondary I guess. It shouldn't cause any problems.
Thank you :) It is definitely not bulletproof - but is is quite sufficient for this purpose.
One last thing would be perfect now - adding an advanced option to prevent renaming with the button within a running lobby. I just tried to add this by myself, but I'm not that familiar with go. I feel this must be just copy-n-paste from the Votekick option - but I did not manage it.
https://github.com/scribble-rs/scribble.rs/issues/207#issuecomment-798762617