Video Assessment

Requirements

• Moodle 4.0 to 4.3
• ffmpeg
• MP4Box

Optional parameter adjustment

Some videos failed to play on Safari or Firefox. For better playback compatibility on Safari or Firefox, you can add "-pix_fmt yuv420p" parameter to the ffmpeg conversion command. The ffmpeg command is as follows: /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg -i {INPUT} -pix_fmt yuv420p {OUTPUT} (The location for changing the ffmpeg command: Dashboard / Site administration / Plugins / Activity modules / Video Assessment)

Description

• This activity module adds a video window the standard Moodle rubrics for easier assessment of live performances.
• It features self and peer assessment as well as teacher assessment.
• It is part of a 12-year action research project designed by teachers of Sapporo Gakuin University and funded by the school.
• Thanks to CHIeru Communication Bridge Educational Web Programming in Sapporo, Japan for their work developing this program.

Attention

** For upgrades only. Ignore for clean installs.**

Please check the version number if the Video Assessment module is already installed on your Moodle.

*How to check the version number.

Go to Site administration > Plugins > Plugins overview and click the [Additional plugins] tab. The grey number shown in the [Version] column is the version number. If the version number is 11 digits eg. "20230926001", then you need to perform these following steps before installing the new version.

In order to change the version number of Video Assessment module on the Moodle database you can simply run a MySQL command. This can be accomplished from your control panel (cPanel, DirectAdmin etc >> phpMyAdmin) or from the command line.

1. Log into your control panel – cPanel, DirectAdmin
2. Navigate to phpMyAdmin
3. Select the Moodle database on the left.
4. Go to the SQL tab and run the following command:

UPDATE xxx_config_plugins SET value = 2025040100 WHERE plugin = ‘mod_videoassessment’;.

*tableprefix can vary from installation to installation.

You can find the table prefix in the config.php file from the root of your Moodle installation:

$CFG->prefix    = 'mdl_';

5. Run the following command to check if the value has been changed correctly.

SELECT * FROM xxx_config_plugins WHERE plugin = ‘mod_videoassessment’;

Success if the result is as follows:

+------+---------------------+---------+------------+
| id   | plugin              | name    | value      |
+------+---------------------+---------+------------+
| xxx  | mod_videoassessment | version | 2025040100 |
+------+---------------------+---------+------------+

*The value of [value] column shows "2025040100".