Moodle plugins directory: External Media | Moodle.org
External Media
Activities ::: mod_media
Maintained by Laurent Opprecht
Resource module that allows you to add external media: YouTube, Dailymotion, Slideshare, etc. Any external site that supports the oembed and/or ogp protocol
Latest release:
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The Moodle External Media module allows you to add embedable content (videos, pictures, ...) and resources (pdf, rss, etc) to Moodle. All providers that implement any of the protocols (oembed, ogp, ...) is supported - Youtube, Dailymotion, Slideshare, Google Books, and more.
How to add a resource
Integration of content is done by copying and pasting a urls. Embeded content such as videos, pictures, name and description is extracted from the page.
How it is done
The artefact works by leveraging several standards to extract the content from the resource. Most noticeably it makes use of
- oembed: http://oembed.com/
- open graph protocol: http://ogp.me/
to extract content.
Supported providers
All content providers that implement any one of the protocols is supported. As example here is a small list of supported providers and content
Youtube, Dailymotion, Slideshare, Google Books, Flikr, Tsr, Rss, pdf, doc, ...
Useful links
Contributors
Laurent Opprecht (Lead maintainer)
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Invalid get_string() identifier: 'modulename' or component 'media'. Perhaps you are missing $string['modulename'] = ''; in lang/en/media.php?
The module media does not define the standard capability mod/media:addinstance
http://clone.moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=209947