Moodle-Dimdim Integration Guide

Dimdim (www.dimdim.com) is Open Source web meeting product. With Dimdim you
can show Presentations, Applications and Desktops to any other person over the Internet. You can chat, show your webcam and talk with others in the meeting. Moodle (www.moodle.org) is an open source learning management system product. This document shows how to integrate Dimdim with Moodle.

Integration steps:
In brief:

1. Deploy the folders provided in zip file to the corresponding folder in moodle installation
2. Login as admin and click on Notifications to create the database tables for Dimdim Web Meeting activity
3. Go to settings of Dimdim Web Meeting and provide the Dimdim server’s hostname and the port number. If you do not have a Dimdim server installed locally, you can provide www1.dimdim.com as host name and 80 as port number where the dimdim server is hosted.
4. Configure your time zone to your local time zone to ensure that the Dimdim Meeting module works properly.

Detailed steps:
Pre-requisites:

1. Install Moodle 1.7.1 For more information, please refer to http://docs.moodle.org/en/Installing_Moodle.
2. Assume the location of the Moodle installation to be $Moodle_directory. Typically this will be C:\Apache\http\htdocs\moodle or \usr\local\moodle

Installation instructions:

1. Obtain “Moodle1_7_Dimdim_ 1_6_Alpha_integration_pack.zip” from http://sourceforge.net/projects/dimdim/
2. Unzip “Moodle1_7_Dimdim_ 1_6_Alpha_integration_pack.zip” to your local directory. Assume this is $temp.
3. From $temp\Moodle1_7_Dimdim_ 1_6_Alpha_integration_pack\mod\ Copy the folder “dimdim” and put into the $Moodle_directory\mod\.
4. From $temp \Moodle1_7_Dimdim_ 1_6_Alpha_integration_pack\lang\enutf8\ Copy the file “dimdim.php” and put into the $Moodle_directory\lang\enutf8\.
5. From $temp\Moodle1_7_Dimdim_ 1_6_Alpha_integration_pack\lang\enutf8\help\ Copy the folder “dimdim” and put into the $Moodle_directory\lang\enutf8\help\
6. Login to the moodle. (http://localhost/moodle or http://localhost/) as an administrator of the site. For more information about the site or teacher or student, please refer to the http://docs.moodle.org/en/Main_Page.

Download Moodle-Dimdim Integration Guide

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Moodle Guide for Students
Student Guide for Using Moodle
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