Lightbox Galerie anlegen
Create a lightbox gallery
Goals:
This guide describes how to create an image gallery in your courses. This gallery can include, e.g., pictures from excursions, projects, or sample graphics. Furthermore, you can activate the comment function for discussions.
Difficulty: easy
Valid from Moodle version 4.3
Create Gallery
Create the activity "Lightbox Gallery" as described in the guide "Create an activity or resource".
Set name and description
Within the settings, enter a name for the gallery, e.g. "Picture Gallery". Optionally an additional description can be added.
Set parameters
Expand the "Advanced" section using the arrow to the left of it. Then, specify how you want the images to be displayed in the Lightbox gallery.
You can determine whether the images should be sorted by "title" or "file name".
In practice, the comment function also proves to be very useful as it encourages communication among students.
Finally, click on "Save and display".
Fill picture gallery
The empty gallery is created and needs to be filled with image content. To load images into the gallery, click on "Add images".
Upload pictures
Upload the images by dragging and dropping them into the upload field or by clicking once within the field. A context menu with various options to add the desired content will be opened.
Once you have uploaded all images, click on "Add images".
Note 1: If all images should be scaled to the same size, open the context menu "Show more..." and remove the check mark next to "Disable". Then you can select the desired resolution from the drop-down menu.
Note 2: Instead of uploading images individually, you can also add an entire archive. This will be automatically unpacked in the overview. Make sure that the same file names are not duplicated, otherwise they will overwrite each other.
Edit images and set comment
If you click on the drop-down menu of the respective images, further editing options appear.
These include: Changing the title, deleting the image, flipping the image, resizing the image, rotating the image, adding keywords, and editing the preview image.
Comments can be added under the "Add comment" selection. These can be viewed after exiting the edit mode.
View images
Images are now available in the gallery for students to view. When images are clicked, they are displayed in their actual available size in full screen. Students are additionally given the option to download the respective image.
Comments can be also added directly on the gallery home page.
Note: If you activate "Edit" in the upper right corner, you can add more images to your gallery at any time, or edit existing images afterwards.
Further information
If you have any questions regarding accessibility, please contact the relevant support facility at your university.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Lightbox Gallery is a 3rd Party Plugin (The plugin can be viewed and downloaded in detail here)