The first thing we are going to do is to download the module to your machine. If you are not the LMS admin or IT manager, you may want them to do this for you as you need access to the Moodle code installation.
- Open up your web browser and go to the webpage http://www.moodle.org.
- In the top Menu you have an option called Downloads. Click on this option and select the Modules and Plugins option. This brings up the database of modules, and shows the most recent entries in the database.
- Click on the Search tab.
- Type the word Adobe Connect Pro into the Name field in the search form and click on Save settings. The page will now load with just the Remote-Learner Adobe Connect Pro Module.
- Click on the name Remote-Learner Adobe Connect Pro Module. This brings up the full view of the Module database entry including the type, requirements, status, the name maintainers, and also other information like the description and links to download.
- It is important to ensure that when you select a custom module from the Module and Plugins database, you check that it is for your version of moodle, and that is maintained. Check out any comments for any issues with the Module too. It is also advisable to test all third-party plugins on a non-production site first and before you deploy to the live site. Make sure you or your IT person takes a backup of the site. Don't forget that backing up the site involves the three part OS: Database, moodledata, and the web files themselves.
- Also check out the actual description of how the module works. It may or may not be what you are looking for, so this will help set expectations. If it is not what you are looking for, then perform the search again and change the search options.
- Under the description, there are links to Download the Latest Version, and The Moodle 1.9 version and to the discussion. Click on the link to Download for Moodle 2.0.
- This will prompt you to download and save the file to somewhere accessible on your machine.
We have just gone to the Moodle community site, and searched through the modules and plugins for the Adobe Connect Pro integration. We then checked that the module is the correct one, and that it is for our version of Moodle. We then downloaded the correct version of the integration module to our machine.
You will download most modules and plugins for Moodle the same way. However, sometimes the actual code is stored elsewhere and you will need to follow instructions on how to retrieve it.
Now that you have the file of the module, you need to upload it to the Moodle site. Currently the module is in a ZIP file. So the first thing you need to do is to unpack this ZIP file using an application like WinZip, 7zip, Windows Compressed Folders, or if you are using a non-Windows machine, then by using a similar application. For example, on Linux you may use the "tar" application.