Media collection

Activities ::: mod_mediagallery
Maintained by Adam Olley
Part of set Media gallery.
This plugin allows instructors/teachers to create a space for students to submit "galleries". These galleries can be based on images, audio or video.
Latest release:
1540 sites
440 downloads
52 fans
Current versions available: 5
Media collection is an activity that enables users to create galleries (of image/audio/video). The galleries themselves have many display options the user can choose such as displaying in a grid or carousel, and defining the number of items to show per row/column and such.

Each item can have metadata supplied (title, publisher, medium, production date, etc).

When viewing a gallery, selecting an item brings up a lightbox interface that allows the user to view a larger version of the item along with the metadata. Social options are also visible in the lightbox interface (liking & commenting).

Screenshots

Screenshot #0
Screenshot #1
Screenshot #2
Screenshot #3
Screenshot #4
Screenshot #5

Contributors

Adam Olley (Lead maintainer)
Damien Bezborodov
Please login to view contributors details and/or to contact them

Comments RSS

Comments

  • Peter Diedrichs
    Tue, 15 Jan 2019, 6:47 PM
    Great plugin! But a core admin setting for accepted file types would be wonderful, since we (as many other users) already have a dedicated and integrated system for sound and video and don't want to confuse things.
  • Colin Wheelhouse
    Wed, 30 Jan 2019, 4:42 AM
    Hi, I love this plugin but when I create a video gallery, no thumbnail images are shown which is a bit of a visual disappointment. Is there a reason for this?
  • Peter Diedrichs
    Thu, 16 May 2019, 8:52 PM
    This works very well, but when copying a course all the students submissions follow into the new course, unlike with other moodle activities. This is a problem, any solutions?
  • Daniel Hoffmann
    Tue, 9 July 2019, 2:49 AM
    Hi, I really like this plugin. Does anybody know if it works with 3.7?
  • Marga Inaraja
    Thu, 29 Aug 2019, 4:46 PM
    Hello, We have Moodle 3.6 and the videos are not displayed. We have tested mp4, avi and other mpeg.
    Anyone with the same problem? Last year with Moodle 3.4 it worked perfectly.
  • Ricardo D
    Thu, 5 Sept 2019, 6:53 PM
    Hello, We have a problem with the plugin. The videos are not displayed. We have Moodle 3.6.5+ (Build: 20190712) and Media Collection Release 3.5.0.2.
    Same server with Moodle 3.4 and Media collection Release 3.3.0.4 works perfectly.
    Apache log error:
    Default exception handler: Coding error detected, it must be fixed by a programmer: Request for an unknown renderer core, media, ajax Debug: \nError code: codingerror\n* line 447 of /lib/outputfactories.php: coding_exception thrown\n* line 2454 of /lib/outputlib.php: call to theme_overridden_renderer_factory->get_renderer()\n* line 864 of /lib/pagelib.php: call to theme_config->get_renderer()\n* line 734 of /mod/mediagallery/renderer.php: call to moodle_page->get_renderer()\n* line 65 of /mod/mediagallery/rest.php: call to mod_mediagallery_renderer->embed_html()\n, referer: https://.../mod/mediagallery/view.php

    Any idea what is happening?
    Thanks in advance.
  • Adam Olley
    Fri, 6 Sept 2019, 7:50 AM
    Hi Ricardo D, I've just pushed up a new version you can use, "3.6.0.0" that includes the fix I did for 3.7 for the same issue.
  • Ricardo D
    Fri, 6 Sept 2019, 3:56 PM
    I see a warning for the use of the class coursecat that is deprecated but I have it tested in my installation and it works correctly.
    Thank you very much smile
  • Jon Berardi
    Tue, 10 Sept 2019, 1:42 AM
    I just installed this on 3.7 and I'm not seeing the ability for anyone to add Timeline Comments to a video. General comments work fine when enabled but the Media Display Interface shown on the UNSW website doesn't look anything like my environment.

    What might be missing to cause this?
  • Adam Olley
    Tue, 10 Sept 2019, 6:48 AM
    Hi Jon,
    Unfortunately the features you describe from their website are part of a bespoke solution they have - they have an entire media platform separate to Moodle that the plugin is customised to integrate with for them - the timeline comments functionality comes from that separate service.
  • Chris Baldwin
    Fri, 27 Sept 2019, 4:37 PM
    Hi There
    a colleague is getting an error message when trying to set up a new gallery " Too many galleries, please delete or change collection type ", there is currently only one gallery on the specific moodle page - the upload limit is set to 600mb. This is a 3D design course so lots of galleries will need creating. I'm struggling to see a problem with the set up of the gallery - anyone have any clues?

    cheers

  • Adam Olley
    Mon, 30 Sept 2019, 8:03 AM
    Hi Chris Baldwin,

    It depends on which mode the collection is in, and if a limit on the number of galleries allowed has been set.

    That particular error message shows up when the collection is set to "Single" mode - which is intended for just one gallery in the collection total.
  • Profile pic
    Tue, 5 Nov 2019, 9:09 AM
    Hi, Is there any way to add custom metadata fields?
  • Sairam Chinnam
    Tue, 5 Nov 2019, 10:05 PM
    Hi, As @Peter D. already mentioned, migrating course content using Backup/Restore (with user content excluded) or Course Import methodology, migrates user content from within the activity. This is not ideal as no other activity behaves this way. Can you please fix this?
  • Adam Olley
    Wed, 6 Nov 2019, 8:44 AM
    Hi @sairam and @peter d. I've included a fix for the galleries/items being included in backups when user data was off in the latest version v3.7.0.2. Anyone running an earlier version can apply this to their version by making the change to mod/mediagallery/backup/moodle2/backup_mediagallery_stepslib.php as is done in this commit:
    https://github.com/netspotau/moodle-mod_mediagallery/commit/b4321a36b8776b7b086da280cd8c03cc37cbd012
Please login to post comments