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Resetting a Student’s Quiz Attempt in OSCampus Pro

: Written by Alex Smirnov Alex Smirnov; Published: 25 April 2025 25 April 2025

One of our OSCampus Pro customers wanted to reset a quiz data for a student.

While OSCampus doesn’t offer this admin feature directly, you can absolutely do it manually with a little help from the database tool phpMyAdmin.

In this blog post, we’ll walk you through the process step by step—it’s easier than it sounds, promise!

Translating "Send a copy to yourself" in Shack Forms Pro

: Written by Alex Smirnov Alex Smirnov; Published: 08 April 2025 08 April 2025

Shack Forms Pro is a powerful tool, especially when building multilingual Joomla sites. But now and then, a small detail can throw you off. One such detail is the "Send a copy to yourself" label that shows up when sending a copy to a user is enabled.

If you've been scratching your head about how to translate it, you're not alone. We recently had to solve this exact issue, and figured others might benefit from the solution. Here’s how you can get that pesky line properly translated in no time.

Create Engaging Lessons by Mixing Text with YouTube Video

: Written by Alex Smirnov Alex Smirnov; Published: 04 April 2025 04 April 2025

OSCampus Pro gives you several lesson types out of the box: Quiz, Text Only, Wistia Video, Vimeo Video, and URL Embed. But what if you want to go beyond these defaults?

Let’s say you're using a Text Only lesson but want to spice it up with a YouTube video. Good news — this is totally doable, and it’s easy with the help of the OSEmbed Pro plugin.

Make Shack Locations More Powerful with the Built-In Map Search Feature

: Written by Alex Smirnov Alex Smirnov; Published: 21 March 2025 21 March 2025

If you're using Shack Locations to display maps on your Joomla site, you might have noticed a search box missing. Visitors can see all your locations but can’t search for a specific one.

The good news is that adding a search feature is quick and easy once you know where to look. In this post, I’ll walk you through how I enabled the map search on my own test site and why it makes a big difference in user experience.

How to Hide a Teacher's Email in OSCampus Pro

: Written by Alex Smirnov Alex Smirnov; Published: 07 March 2025 07 March 2025

A customer recently asked how to remove the teacher's email link from the Teacher tab in an OSCampus Pro course. You can do this using Joomla's Template Override feature.

In this blog post, we’ll show you how to achieve this with a simple template modification.

The Simple Fix for OSEmbed Not Working in JCE Editor

: Written by Alex Smirnov Alex Smirnov; Published: 20 February 2025 20 February 2025

One of our OSEmbed customers noticed that instead of embedding their URLs as videos or maps, Joomla was stubbornly turning them into clickable text links. If you're using the JCE Editor, this happens because it automatically converts pasted links into clickable text.

While this is great for regular web content, it completely disrupts OSEmbed’s ability to display videos, maps, or documents properly. In this blog post, you will learn a simple fix—just tweak a setting in JCE, and your embeds will work as expected!

Simplify JCal Pro by Hiding the List of Categories in Monthly Calendar

: Written by Alex Smirnov Alex Smirnov; Published: 09 January 2025 09 January 2025

The JCal Pro monthly calendar prominently displays a list of your events' categories by default.

While this is useful in many scenarios, there might be a use case where you'd prefer a cleaner look without the list of your events' categories. If this applies to you, don’t worry—removing the list of categories is possible and straightforward.

In this blog post, you will learn a step-by-step guide for hiding the events' categories list on your JCal Pro monthly calendar.

How to Hide the Download Button for the Public User Group in OSDownloads

: Written by Alex Smirnov Alex Smirnov; Published: 28 November 2024 28 November 2024

If you want to control who sees the "Download" button for OSDownload files, Joomla offers a simple solution.

By using RegularLabs.com's "Conditional Content" extension and customizing a template override, you can restrict access to logged-in users only.

This post will show you how to set it up effectively.

How to Open a Shack Forms Pro Form with a Button

: Written by Alex Smirnov Alex Smirnov; Published: 21 November 2024 21 November 2024

One of our customers asked how to open a Shack Forms Pro contact form module with a button. Every form module you create in the Shack Forms Pro component provides you with an HTML code for a hyperlink that will open this particular form module.

You can then add some basic inline CSS code to this HTML link to convert it to a button and style its design as you see fit. In this blog post, you will learn how to add a Shack Forms Pro button inside a Joomla article.

Thanks to René Kreijveld, Our Dutch Translation Hero

: Written by Alex Smirnov Alex Smirnov; Published: 01 September 2024 01 September 2024

We are thrilled to share some exciting news with our Dutch community!

Our OSCampus Pro, OSEmbed, OSVimeo, and OSYouTube extensions now fully support the Dutch language, thanks to the dedicated efforts of René Kreijveld, a phenomenal contributor to our translation projects.

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