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		By: Feedback Methods Compared - Candidate 1: PDF Annotation - ElearningWorld.org		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Feedback Methods Compared - Candidate 1: PDF Annotation - ElearningWorld.org]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2022 09:58:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[[&#8230;] first make sure you have a suitable PDF converter installed&#8212;see Ben Kahn&#8217;s article Moodle PDF Conversion Plugins: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly. You should also set assignments to only accept the kind of files that can be converted. Rather [&#8230;]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[&#8230;] first make sure you have a suitable PDF converter installed&#8212;see Ben Kahn&#8217;s article Moodle PDF Conversion Plugins: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly. You should also set assignments to only accept the kind of files that can be converted. Rather [&#8230;]</p>
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		By: Ben Kahn		</title>
		<link>https://www.elearningworld.org/moodle-pdf-conversion-plugins-good-bad-ugly/#comment-1324</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Kahn]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2021 04:16:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.elearningworld.org/moodle-pdf-conversion-plugins-good-bad-ugly/#comment-1322&quot;&gt;seaghan&lt;/a&gt;.

If you check the Git repo for the plugin you will find that it is maintained with updates as recently as October, and it works fine on 3.10...I&#039;ve noticed Catalyst tends to forgo updating the official Moodle plugins page for some of their more IT/enterprise focused projects https://github.com/catalyst/moodle-fileconverter_librelambda]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.elearningworld.org/moodle-pdf-conversion-plugins-good-bad-ugly/#comment-1322">seaghan</a>.</p>
<p>If you check the Git repo for the plugin you will find that it is maintained with updates as recently as October, and it works fine on 3.10&#8230;I&#8217;ve noticed Catalyst tends to forgo updating the official Moodle plugins page for some of their more IT/enterprise focused projects <a href="https://github.com/catalyst/moodle-fileconverter_librelambda" rel="nofollow ugc">https://github.com/catalyst/moodle-fileconverter_librelambda</a></p>
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		By: Stuart Mealor		</title>
		<link>https://www.elearningworld.org/moodle-pdf-conversion-plugins-good-bad-ugly/#comment-1323</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart Mealor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2021 23:49:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.elearningworld.org/moodle-pdf-conversion-plugins-good-bad-ugly/#comment-1322&quot;&gt;seaghan&lt;/a&gt;.

Are you referring to this plugin:
https://moodle.org/plugins/pluginversions.php?plugin=fileconverter_librelambda
As you say, it&#039;s only available for Moodle versions 3.5.and 3.6.
The plugin hasn&#039;t been updated since Sunday, March 31, 2019.
Given that Moodle 3.9 is now the current release, and work towards Moodle 4.0 is under way, my gut instinct is that this plugin may no longer be updated.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.elearningworld.org/moodle-pdf-conversion-plugins-good-bad-ugly/#comment-1322">seaghan</a>.</p>
<p>Are you referring to this plugin:<br />
<a href="https://moodle.org/plugins/pluginversions.php?plugin=fileconverter_librelambda" rel="nofollow ugc">https://moodle.org/plugins/pluginversions.php?plugin=fileconverter_librelambda</a><br />
As you say, it&#8217;s only available for Moodle versions 3.5.and 3.6.<br />
The plugin hasn&#8217;t been updated since Sunday, March 31, 2019.<br />
Given that Moodle 3.9 is now the current release, and work towards Moodle 4.0 is under way, my gut instinct is that this plugin may no longer be updated.</p>
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		By: seaghan		</title>
		<link>https://www.elearningworld.org/moodle-pdf-conversion-plugins-good-bad-ugly/#comment-1322</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[seaghan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2021 11:24:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Does anyone know if there are plans to support LibreLambda beyond the 3.5 and 3.6 cited in the documentation? TIA :)]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Does anyone know if there are plans to support LibreLambda beyond the 3.5 and 3.6 cited in the documentation? TIA 🙂</p>
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		By: Stuart Mealor		</title>
		<link>https://www.elearningworld.org/moodle-pdf-conversion-plugins-good-bad-ugly/#comment-1281</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart Mealor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2020 06:14:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.elearningworld.org/moodle-pdf-conversion-plugins-good-bad-ugly/#comment-1280&quot;&gt;Armando Silvier&lt;/a&gt;.

It&#039;s an interesting point.
Disclaimer: I don&#039;t like Google - I don&#039;t like their licensing, and their marketing machine that seems to convince everyone they are the saviour of the internet, which they definitely are not.
However, there is a continuum, between security and ease, and sadly many schools for example will happily encourage their students to &quot;buy into&quot; the Googleverse and Microsoftverse, with little of zero ethical consideration as to what this means.
However, a Google Docs service provides a similar service to a MacD9nalds when you are hungry - it&#039;s fast, cheap, and easy, and we (mostly) ignore the fact it&#039;s unhealthy.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.elearningworld.org/moodle-pdf-conversion-plugins-good-bad-ugly/#comment-1280">Armando Silvier</a>.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s an interesting point.<br />
Disclaimer: I don&#8217;t like Google &#8211; I don&#8217;t like their licensing, and their marketing machine that seems to convince everyone they are the saviour of the internet, which they definitely are not.<br />
However, there is a continuum, between security and ease, and sadly many schools for example will happily encourage their students to &#8220;buy into&#8221; the Googleverse and Microsoftverse, with little of zero ethical consideration as to what this means.<br />
However, a Google Docs service provides a similar service to a MacD9nalds when you are hungry &#8211; it&#8217;s fast, cheap, and easy, and we (mostly) ignore the fact it&#8217;s unhealthy.</p>
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		By: Armando Silvier		</title>
		<link>https://www.elearningworld.org/moodle-pdf-conversion-plugins-good-bad-ugly/#comment-1280</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Armando Silvier]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2020 01:19:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[You keep mentioning the lack of privacy/security with various types of solutions; but you seem totally comfortable with &quot;cloud-based&quot; solutions such as Google Docs. Aren&#039;t cloud-based solutions, themselves, about as secure and private as Microsoft Windows?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You keep mentioning the lack of privacy/security with various types of solutions; but you seem totally comfortable with &#8220;cloud-based&#8221; solutions such as Google Docs. Aren&#8217;t cloud-based solutions, themselves, about as secure and private as Microsoft Windows?</p>
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		By: Oscar		</title>
		<link>https://www.elearningworld.org/moodle-pdf-conversion-plugins-good-bad-ugly/#comment-1173</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Oscar]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2020 07:34:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Hi Ben, I&#039;m very comfortable with mysql. I finally made a couple of queries to identify waste records in database. Also find the moosh command to purge them. BUT, I&#039;m not 100% sure about the Moodle database datamodel, so I&#039;ll keep all this &quot;in the fridge&quot; to test it once course is over. I don&#039;t want to mess it up with COVID-19 all around and more than 400 students depending on Moodle ;-)]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Ben, I&#8217;m very comfortable with mysql. I finally made a couple of queries to identify waste records in database. Also find the moosh command to purge them. BUT, I&#8217;m not 100% sure about the Moodle database datamodel, so I&#8217;ll keep all this &#8220;in the fridge&#8221; to test it once course is over. I don&#8217;t want to mess it up with COVID-19 all around and more than 400 students depending on Moodle 😉</p>
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		By: thebenkahn		</title>
		<link>https://www.elearningworld.org/moodle-pdf-conversion-plugins-good-bad-ugly/#comment-1172</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[thebenkahn]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2020 04:24:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.elearningworld.org/moodle-pdf-conversion-plugins-good-bad-ugly/#comment-1171&quot;&gt;Oscar N.&lt;/a&gt;.

Hi Oscar, I&#039;m not sure how you would be able to do this....there might be a way if you are clever enough with MySQL queries. If you can find a list of the file IDs you want to delete, you can use Moosh to purge them: https://moosh-online.com/commands/]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.elearningworld.org/moodle-pdf-conversion-plugins-good-bad-ugly/#comment-1171">Oscar N.</a>.</p>
<p>Hi Oscar, I&#8217;m not sure how you would be able to do this&#8230;.there might be a way if you are clever enough with MySQL queries. If you can find a list of the file IDs you want to delete, you can use Moosh to purge them: <a href="https://moosh-online.com/commands/" rel="nofollow ugc">https://moosh-online.com/commands/</a></p>
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		By: Oscar N.		</title>
		<link>https://www.elearningworld.org/moodle-pdf-conversion-plugins-good-bad-ugly/#comment-1171</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Oscar N.]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2020 20:34:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Thanks Ben. I&#039;ve disabled the Scheduled Task “Prepare Submissions for Annotation.”. I&#039;m now trying to find the way to delete all unnecessary converted documents to get rid of 5 GB of space.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks Ben. I&#8217;ve disabled the Scheduled Task “Prepare Submissions for Annotation.”. I&#8217;m now trying to find the way to delete all unnecessary converted documents to get rid of 5 GB of space.</p>
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		By: Ben Kahn		</title>
		<link>https://www.elearningworld.org/moodle-pdf-conversion-plugins-good-bad-ugly/#comment-1170</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Kahn]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2020 18:50:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.elearningworld.org/moodle-pdf-conversion-plugins-good-bad-ugly/#comment-1169&quot;&gt;Oscar N.&lt;/a&gt;.

Hi Oscar, I didn&#039;t find a way to do this. If you want to keep unneeded files from being converted into PDFs you can disable the Scheduled Task &quot;Prepare Submissions for Annotation.&quot; However, that would mean that any graders who are using PDF annotation would have to wait for the files to convert when they visit the assignment grading screen. and this can be undesirable. You may just want to look at disabling the Annotate PDF Feedback plugin altogether if your server can&#039;t handle the space.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.elearningworld.org/moodle-pdf-conversion-plugins-good-bad-ugly/#comment-1169">Oscar N.</a>.</p>
<p>Hi Oscar, I didn&#8217;t find a way to do this. If you want to keep unneeded files from being converted into PDFs you can disable the Scheduled Task &#8220;Prepare Submissions for Annotation.&#8221; However, that would mean that any graders who are using PDF annotation would have to wait for the files to convert when they visit the assignment grading screen. and this can be undesirable. You may just want to look at disabling the Annotate PDF Feedback plugin altogether if your server can&#8217;t handle the space.</p>
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