[Jonathan Sandoe]

Hi FiLy

It looks like you may be accessing Lunar Lander at http://ccssgames.com, which is no longer under active development. You can open the current version of CODAP (formerly DataGames) here: https://codap.concord.org/. This link will open the Lunar Lander game in the modern version of CODAP. You will find that the look and feel of the web site has changed quite a bit, but the functionality described in the video from the Data Games site should still work.

Jonathan Sandoe

[Jonathan Sandoe]

Hi Gabriella,

When an instance of CODAP is started from https://codap.concord.org/releases/*, user activity is logged to a Concord Consortium log server. Access to the log server is restricted. So for, to my knowledge, the data on the server has been exclusively used by Concord Consortium-affiliated researchers.

It is possible to configure a server instance of CODAP to send log messages to another server. This entails editing of a small configuration file co-resident with the CODAP code instance on the server. (CODAP is normally accessed at https://codap.concord.org/releases/latest), but it is open source software and zip archives of every build of CODAP are available at https://codap.concord.org/releases/zips that are installable on any standard web server.)

Hope this helps.

Jonathan

[Jonathan Sandoe]

Hi Joachim,

I am able to drag and drop tables from PDF documents without difficulty using the CODAP drag and drop tool.

The answer lies not with CODAP, but with the software you are using to display the PDF. You see, when you select text in any kind of document and say copy or begin to drag it, most modern software will make an HTML version of that and put it in its copy or drag buffer. In this process it will look for anything that looks like tabular data and convert it to an HTML table. If the software is not sufficiently modern or if, for some reason, it cannot recognize the data as tabular in structure, it will not do this. When you paste or drop something into the CODAP drag and drop tool, it simply looks for tables in the HTML data stream.

So, here are my suggestions:

1. try opening the PDF file in a different tool. On Macs there is the Adobe PDF reader and “Preview”. On PC’s there are similar tools. Most browsers can also display PDFs.
2.  see if the tool you are using to display PDFs is an up-to-date version of the tool. If not, update it.
3. try other PDFs with tables. Maybe it is some property of the PDF you are working with that is problematic.
4. try different selection areas. Try areas that encompass the whole table. Try selecting the whole document.

If these don’t work, I am at a loss to suggest what you may do.

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