Moodle Media and More IETC Springfield Nov 18-19, 2010 Terence Sullivan Technology Director Shiloh CUSD#!

Moodle Resources/Activities ResourcesActivities Label Compose Text Page Compose Web Page Link to File or Webpage Display a Directory Assignment Choice Database Forum Glossary Journal Quiz Wiki

Basics Links to media Upload media to the class file library ◦ Use by creating a Display a Directory option Store media in the included Database

Power of the Label A “label” resource has ◦ Access to pure HTML code ◦ Displays directly in the main view To access the HTML code view, click on the “<>” symbol on the Web Editor

Enhancing Moodle Add-ons Basic process for installing an add-on to Moodle ◦ 1. find the add-on (usually a zip or tgz file) ◦ 2. download the file ◦ 3. unzip the file ◦ 4. copy the folder of the unzipped code into either MOD or BLOCKS folder inside moodle  …/www/mod or …/www/blocks ◦ 5. open the notification page to install and activate the add-on ( ◦ 6. Configure any needed options

Moodle Plugins Review

Module to Consider Lightbox Gallery Gallery4Kids PodCaster mmDatabaseField mPage Presenter SlideCast Kaltura Big Blue Button Sharing Cart

LightBox Photo Gallery Download “lightbox_gallery.zip” unzip lightbox_gallery.zip mv lightbox_gallery /var/www/mod Upload photos to a folder in the course files directory Point Lightbox Gallery to that folder

PodCaster Download “podcaster_ zip” unzip podcaster_ zip mv podcaster_ /var/www/mod Drop MP3 files into a folder in the course files Can schedule when they are available Can connect to RSS

Presenter Download “presenter.zip” unzip presenter.zip mv presenter /var/www/mod Create Presentations which include video, images, notes Can use YouTube links or Flash files

mmDatabaseField Download “multimedia.zip” unzip multimedia.zip mv multimedia /var/www/mod/data/field/ Adds a new Database Field type “multimedia” Use to store and collect multimedia files

MultiMedia Filters Administration ◦ Modules  Filters  MultiMedia Plugins Allow direct playing of some media content inside Moodle activities instead of opening in a separate application Will play in browser window, but does require browser plugin to be present.

Streaming Media Any Web Server can be used to display/play media ◦ Drop media into a web folder, and create a link to it. Streaming – optimized for sharing ◦ Can begin playing before downloading all ◦ Can serve up multiple “versions” of the same media ◦ http – standard port 80 web streaming ◦ rtmp – adaptive and can adjust in real time

Kaltura Streaming Server Community Edition Host on your own server Other Streaming Servers ◦ Wowza Developer Edition ◦ Microsoft Media Encoder ◦ Macintosh – yeah, they do media

Integrating Kaltura ◦ Host and stream media content Moodle ◦ Use the content available

Kaltura Download “alpha_0.95.tgz” tar –xvfz alpha_0.95.tgz  three folders mv kaltura /var/www/mod mv “assignment” /var/www/mod/assignment/type mv “resource” /var/www/mod/resource/type/ Creates connection between Moodle and Kaltura media sharing server.

Collaborative Meeting Space WizIQ DimDim Big Blue Button

Server App – Stand Alone Server (Ubuntu 2G) ◦ Moodle connector Module Create connection to BigBlueButton Server Collaboration and online conference room ◦ Download “bigbluebutton.zip” ◦ unzip bigbluebutton.zip ◦ mv bigbluebutton /var/www/mod ◦ mv bigbluebutton.php /var/www/lang/en_utf8 ◦ mv bigbluebutton var/www/lang/en_utf8/help ◦

Google Apps Ed/Pro - Moodle Google has release a set of modules to integrate Moodle User Database and Google Apps User Databases. Requires SSO and commitment to Moodle User Database as the primary login Download moodle-gapps-rc3.zip Follow Directions to modify config files and drop the set of mods into the correct folders Info Here: ◦ ◦ ◦

Questions? ResourcesActivities Label Compose Text Page Compose Web Page Link to File or Webpage Display a Directory Assignment Choice Database Forum Glossary Journal Quiz Wiki