MEDIAL Video Streaming Activity

Activities ::: mod_helixmedia
Maintained by MEDIAL Streaming
Part of set MEDIAL.
This Moodle video plugin allows Teachers / Lecturers to upload video or audio files using a specific MEDIAL Activity, creating a link to the file on the course page.
Latest release:
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180 downloads
23 fans
Current versions available: 3



UPLOAD, RESPOND, AND GRADE

Our Moodle Video Plugin gives Lecturers and Students everything they need

Lecturers and Students want to use Moodle in new and exciting ways and they want to use Video! The MEDIAL Video Plugin, in conjunction with the MEDIAL Video Assignement Submission Plugin allows Lecturers to upload a new video or select existing content, and then either add this to Course Pages or create Video Assignments. You must install both plugins for these features.

Students can then respond to the Video Assignments set by the Lecturer. With the addition of the MEDIAL Video Feedback Plugin students can also receive video feedback on their response via the Grade Book.

 

 


These are some of the many things you can do with the MEDIAL Video Plugin for Moodle:




Video Upload and Transcode

Uploading Video & Audio to Moodle itself can be problematic in terms of storage and delivery of media content

MEDIAL provides a way of uploading  large media files to a central publishing point stored off of Moodle and delivered as streaming media.



Streams to All Devices

There are a vast array of devices that can be used to playback media and users expect their device to be properly supported by whatever systems they use

MEDIAL does all of the hard work for you in terms of transcoding content to play smoothly across all devices from within Moodle.



Video Assignments and Assessments

Video being used as a tool for Assessment is becoming commonplace but Lecturers and Students need a secure way of doing this

MEDIAL enables lecturers to create video-based assignments that students can respond to with video, safe in the knowledge that their content is secure.



Grade Book Integration

Making and uploading a video assignment is just the start of the process

MEDIAL Moodle Plugin hooks into the Moodle Grade Book allowing lecturers to view student video assignments and grade them all without leaving Moodle.



Integration With Text Editors

Instructors and students sometimes need to add video from within a text editor for seamless integration with the assignments and submissions

The MEDIAL Atto Editor plugin and TinyMCE plugin enable you to add videos directly from the text editor.





       




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Contributors

MEDIAL Streaming (Lead maintainer)
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  • David Mudrák
    Wed, 20 Aug 2014, 4:56 PM
    Hi. Thanks for sharing this plugin with the community.

    When trying to install the module, the following debugging warning is raised: "XMLDB has detected one TEXT/BINARY column (intro) with some DEFAULT defined. This type of columns cannot have any default value. Please fix it in source (XML and/or upgrade script) to avoid this message to be displayed."

    I noticed that your plugin is storing its settings in the mdl_config table rather that the mdl_config_plugins. In order to avoid $CFG bloat and potentional collisions, it is recommended to use get_config to pull the data out of mdl_config_plugins.

    Please try to avoid the closing PHP tags ?> at the end of files. They are not needed and they are known to cause troubles in certain situations.

    I am marking this as needing more work. Please re-schedule the plugin for re-approval once these issues are fixed. Thanks for your patience with the review and approval process.
  • David Mudrák
    Tue, 2 Sep 2014, 7:39 PM
    Thanks for fixing the raised issues promptly. I've been able to check the changes and install the plugin successfully. You are cleared to land now, welcome to the Plugins directory.
  • David Mudrák
    Tue, 2 Sep 2014, 7:41 PM
    Please note, in order to have your plugin registered with the AMOS tool at lang.moodle.org, you will have to upload a new version with the lang/en/helixmedia.php file fixed at the line 25. Do not use the concatenation operator there as the current AMOS parser does not support that. Thanks in advance.
  • Chen ZhongWei
    Thu, 19 Mar 2015, 9:46 PM
    Hi, David,
    We upgraded the moodle from version 2.7.2 to new version of moodle 2.8 yesterday. Unfortunately, the HLM server could not be connected. Something message like auth failed were shown. But still works well on the moodle 2.7.2.
  • Graham Stone
    Mon, 13 Jun 2016, 5:09 PM
    Hello, just wondering when this is going to be updated for 3.1? Thanks
  • Lina
    Wed, 7 Dec 2016, 12:07 PM
    Hi David,
    We are using Moodle 3.1 and I found the completion track function is not working for the video activity. I've set "the student must view this activity to complete it", but after the students viewed the video, the track state didn't update.
    Would you please help with this issue?
    Thanks.

    Cheers,
    Lina
  • Kevin Calle
    Thu, 6 Apr 2017, 5:08 AM
    Hi everyone

    Is there a free version of this nice plugin ?
  • Pingtao Ye
    Wed, 28 Feb 2018, 9:22 AM
    Hi,
    Why this mod plugin is not MDL-3.4 supported but the rest is?
  • MEDIAL Streaming
    Wed, 28 Feb 2018, 9:50 PM
    Hi, Moodle 3.4 is supported. I think someone just forgot to include the correct option on the drop down menu when uploading the latest build of this plugin
  • Instagram Profile
    Thu, 19 Apr 2018, 2:29 AM
    hello can this be used for Minoxidil Beard
  • Howard Miller
    Fri, 18 May 2018, 8:40 PM
    Can the plugin be extended to support the new Privacy API please?
  • MEDIAL Streaming
    Fri, 18 May 2018, 10:46 PM
    work is already underway in this respect. It will obviously only be supported in Moodle 3.5 onwards through. Timeline should be summer 2018
  • Dustin Brisebois
    Tue, 23 Apr 2019, 2:51 AM
    This plugin is not fully 3.6 compatible, it has legacy calls to the old search system. Ticket https://github.com/streamingltd/MEDIAL-Moodle-Activity/issues/4 has advised the vendor of this.
  • Edgar Amorim
    Sat, 16 Jan 2021, 3:51 AM
    I've installed the plugin and now I've got the error "Exception - Class 'core_search\area\base_activity' not found" and I don't have access to admin area. Any clue to solve this issue? My Moodle is version 3.10+ (Build: 20201204)
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