MooTube (Digital Signage Application incorporating Moodle/YouTube)

MooTube (Digital Signage Application incorporating Moodle/YouTube)

by Shaun Daubney -
Number of replies: 6

Mootube Logo

Not sure where to post this, or if it will be of interest but here goes. I've been developing a digital signage application over the past year that has replaced the powerpoint slideshows we used to show on our College plasma screens.

Introducing MooTube...
Plasma Screen
MooTube is basic HTML code which embeds a personalised YouTube playlist with RSS feeds from your Moodle site.

It's simple and free to set up, just create a playlist in YouTube, add your playlist ID and RSS Feed URLs to the plasma.htm code (instructions provided) and you're away!

Screenshot

We use our YouTube playlist to hide educational programming in with music videos and student created content. The RSS feeds come from our main news forum and Woot is our 'public' message forums, but you can modify literally everything easily with just a little photoshop and notepad.

Download Here

And please let me know any comments, suggestions, etc

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Re: MooTube (Digital Signage Application incorporating Moodle/YouTube)

by Shaun Daubney -

Damn, too late to edit... just wanted to add that there is also a theme for Moodle to go along with this application...

http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=26&rid=1797

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by John Szkudlapski -

Been using your original version to great effect, will look into this one.

thanks again!

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Re: MooTube (Digital Signage Application incorporating Moodle/YouTube)

by Chad Outten -
Pure genius, Shaun! thanks for sharing. Love the themes & css menubar too, btw. a few things re: mootube...

+im presuming latest stable is located @ http://vle.newbury-college.ac.uk/theme/packages/mootube.zip
+noticed <object> tags in plasma.htm - it is fair to say use at own peril in IE?
+missing fonts from back.psd
+readme or help file documentation?
+does mootube have to reside on front page?

Cheers, Chad
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Re: MooTube (Digital Signage Application incorporating Moodle/YouTube)

by Shaun Daubney -

Thanks Chad,

http://vle.newbury-college.ac.uk/theme/packages/mootube.zip is the latest stable build. As with most things I do it's very much work in progress, and worked on when I get chance as opposed to being a real part of my job.

As other parts of the year settle down I will look at getting a more polished package together to share, but don't worry will still be open source.

PS. You can rename plasma.htm to index or whatever you want and make it the main page of the directory or make several and have a slection page.

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by Chad Outten -
ok Shaun - thanks for the info! mootube has MASSIVE potential.
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Re: MooTube (Digital Signage Application incorporating Moodle/YouTube)

by ibrahim mat -
Thanks Shaun

i'm newbie in rss and have problem to understand the URL format

example (from your plasma.htm):
http://vle.newbury-college.ac.uk/rss/file.php/200/6/forum/234/rss.xml
i tried to follow those format such as below

// 200 == course: the course id
// 6 == user: the user id
// forum == name: the name of the module (forum...)
// 234 == id: the id (instance) of the module (forumid...)

but I got this error message: RSS Error

Please help me to clarify this problem

Thanks again for this worderful applications/plugin/products.

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