{"id":1447,"date":"2021-09-20T11:54:22","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T10:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digi-ed.uk\/support\/?post_type=ht_kb&p=1447"},"modified":"2023-06-29T15:06:06","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T14:06:06","slug":"using-moodle-database-to-make-an-image-collection","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/digi-ed.uk\/support\/article\/using-moodle-database-to-make-an-image-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Moodle Database to make an Image Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

How to set up a database for image collection<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

To add a \u2018database\u2019 activity to your Moodle course, please follow the steps below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Sign in to your Moodle account and select the course where you would like to add a \u2018Database\u2019 activity.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Click on the \u2018Edit mode\u2019 button and then select a section where you would like it to be located. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
    \"Edit<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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    1. Click on the \u2018Add an activity or resource\u2019 button and then choose \u2018Database\u2019 from the popping-up window.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
      \"Add<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
      \"Screenshot<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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      1. A new page will be shown where you can customise the settings of this particular activity.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

        How to set up a Database activity to your Moodle course<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

        In terms of the setup of a Moodle \u2018Database\u2019 activity, please follow the steps below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

        General<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

        In the \u2018General\u2019 section, you can give a useful name and description to the activity. You can also choose whether you would like the description to be shown on the course page or not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

        \"Screenshot<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

        Entries<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

        In the entries section you can select whether approval is required, comments allowed on entries, that students are required submit entries before viewing rights and the maximum number of entries allowed. We recommend leaving all of the settings as default.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

        \"Screenshot<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

        Availability<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

        Select availability if you want your database to be available for a limited time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

        \"Screenshot<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

        Ratings<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

        It is possible to rate database records within Moodle. These ratings are then aggregated to produce a grade for that activity for the student being rated. For example a student’s image posts may be rated by their fellow students with those ratings being averaged and that grade then contributing to the students overall course grade. You can choose whether ratings can be submitted by students and\/or by teachers. Recommendations are to leave as default.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

        \"Screenshot<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

        Common Module Settings<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

        In the ‘Common module settings’ section, you can decide whether you would like the activity to be shown or hidden from the students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

        The ‘Link to UNIT-e’ setting refers to transferring the released grades to the student record system, therefore, this option should be left off as default as \u2018Databases\u2019 are not used for summative assessments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

        By default, Moodle detects a user\u2019s language from their browser setting. The \u2018Force language\u2019 can be used if you want to force a language instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

        The ‘Group mode’ can be useful for you if you would like to allocate the students to different groups, so you can send out group notifications<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

        \"Screenshot<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

        Restrict access<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

        In the ‘Restrict Access’ section, you can add restrictions in terms of accessing the activity as a student which can be based on date, grade, group, grouping, or user profile, however, we recommend leaving this option on default.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

        \"Screenshot<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

        Click Save and display return to course <\/p>\n\n\n\n

        Start building the Image Collection<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

        When opening up the Database Activity you can now set up the fields required for the image collection. You will be greeted with the following screen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

        \"Screenshot<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

         <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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        1. In lower area, click on \u2018Use a preset\u2019 to get started. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
          \"Screenshot<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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          1. Then select ‘Image gallery’ from the preset choices and click ‘Use this preset’ in the bottom right hand corner.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
            \"Screenshot<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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            1. This will creates an image database with 3 fields: \u2018image\u2019, \u2018title\u2019 and \u2018description\u2019 and the default sort field.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
              \"Screenshot<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

              Students: \u2018how to add images\u2019 to Collection<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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              1. Click on the Image Database activity <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
                \"Image<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

                To add image: Click on ‘Add entry’<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                \"Screenshot<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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                1. Provide a title and a description, alternative text will help those using a screen reader to view your image.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                2. You can either click on the image box to upload images or drag and drop images to the box itself.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                3. If on mobile, you will have to click the \u2018add file\u2019 icon and find\/select image from your phones image gallery. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
                4. Click ‘Save’ or ‘Save and add another’ if you have more images to add.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
                  \"Screenshot<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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                  1. To see all images, click on View List and choose how to filter images<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                  2. To view one image. click on view single and navigate through images as required.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
                    \"Screenshot<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

                    This article will show you how to upload images to a Moodle database activity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[27],"ht-kb-tag":[194],"class_list":["post-1447","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-moodle","ht_kb_tag-database"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digi-ed.uk\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digi-ed.uk\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digi-ed.uk\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digi-ed.uk\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digi-ed.uk\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1447"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/digi-ed.uk\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6073,"href":"https:\/\/digi-ed.uk\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1447\/revisions\/6073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digi-ed.uk\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digi-ed.uk\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=1447"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digi-ed.uk\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=1447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}