Google to Moodle Gadget

This help file provides brief overview of the google gadget for your moodle site

The Moodle Gadget

The Moodle Gadget is a gadget that you can embed on your Google Partner start page.

Steps to install onto a Users Start Page

  1. Login to Moodle
  2. Click on the Google Partner Page in the Google Services Access block.
  3. Click on the Add Stuff link
  4. Click on Add my url
  5. Enter the moodlegadget URL
  6. The URL is something like
    http://www.yourmoodedomain.org/auth/gsaml/moodlegadget.php
  7. It can be found in the Google Authentication Settings from the Admin block
  8. After you copy the url to the url field. Click Add
  9. Click Back to homepage
  10. You shoudl know see a block containing a link back to your moodle site.

Considerations (As of BETA release)

This is the beta prototype for this Google Moodle Gadget. In the future it may be much much more useful. Currently there is a known bug regarding the Gadget not updating immediately upon install. Developers are looking in to it.