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
- Click on Lightbox Gallery link in course
- Click Add Images
- Click browse and use file picker to upload images
- After uploading image click the add images button in the lower left hand corner of the screen
- Edit images if needed by clicking “Turn on editing” button
- 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
Step 2: Click on the “Add images” button
Step 3: Click on “Choose a file” and use the file picker or use the drag and drop files box to upload your image/
Step 4: Once the file is attached click the “Add images” button
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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 gallery
- Each image now contains a drop down menu with a variety of editing options. Once you have entered the editing page all the other edit options are available to you in a series of tabs above the image
- Caption - allows you to add a caption to the image - make sure you click the update button when you have finished
- 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
- Resize - allows you to change the size of the image
- this is either by pixels or %
- this is either by pixels or %
- Rotate - allows you to rotate the image in 90o increments
- Tag - allows you to add a tag to the image to make searching easier
- Thumbnail - allows you to adjust to the left or right the portion of the image that will be displayed as the thumbnail
Step 6: Return to gallery by clicking “Back to gallery” button in the upper right hand corner of the screen
Step 7: To turn off editing click on the “Turn editing off” button
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 page