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Summary

Lightbox Gallery is a Moodle Resource Tool for displaying an image gallery in your Moodle Course.  Faculty and/or students can add images to the gallery depending on settings.

Using a Lightbox Gallery - Brief Overview

  1. Click on Lightbox Gallery link in course
  2. Click Add Images
  3. Click browse and use file picker to upload images
  4. After uploading image click the add images button in the lower left hand corner of the screen
  5. Edit images if needed by clicking “Turn on editing” button
  6. Return to gallery when done

 

Using a Lightbox Gallery - Step by Step

 

Step 1: Click on the lightbox link in your course - this was automatically created when you set up your lightbox gallery

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Step 2: Click on the “Add images” buttonImage Removed

 

 

 

 

 

Step 3: Click on “Choose a file” and use the file picker to upload your imageImage Removed

Step 4: Once the file is attached click the “Add images” buttonImage Removed.
Note: If you have a number of images you can place them in a zip archive (must be less than 50MB), upload the zipped file and it will automatically unzip and load the images into the gallery.

 

Step 5: Edit images (if needed) - Click on “Turn on editing” button in the upper right hand corner of the galleryImage Removed

 

  • Each image now contains a drop down menu with a variety of editing options
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  • Caption - allows you to add a caption to the image - make sure you click the update button when you have finished
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  • Once you have enter the editing page all the other edit option are available to you in a series of tabs above the image
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  • Crop - choose what section of an image you want to use
     
  • Delete - this is how you delete an image from the gallery
     
  • Flip - you can flip the image either vertically or horizontally
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  • Resize - allows you to change the size of the image
    • this is either by pixels or %
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  • Rotate - allows you to rotate the image in 90o increments
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  • Tag - allows you to add a tag to the image to make searching easier
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  • Thumbnail - allows you to adjust to the left or right the portion of the image that will be displayed as the thumbnail
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Step 6: Return to gallery by clicking “Back to gallery” button in the upper right hand corner of the screen

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Step 7: To turn off editing click on the “Turn editing off” button

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Note: If you need to make changes to the gallery settings you can click on the “Update this Lightbox Gallery” button in the upper right hand corner of the pageImage Removed

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