Webinar

Activities ::: mod_webinar
Maintained by Joe Barber
Enables web conferencing between Moodle and Adobe Connect to be added as an activity to any course.
Latest release:
19 sites
28 downloads
14 fans
Current versions available: 4

The Webinar activity module enables Adobe Connect hosted webinars to be added as an activity to any course. This is intended for hosted Adobe deployments, not on-premise deployments - see http://www.adobe.com/products/adobeconnect.html

The module has been recently updated (May 2014) to support Adobe Connect 9.

The Webinar activity module includes the following functionality:

  • Add/edit/delete webinar session
  • Assign a host user to a session - based on 'teacher' system role
  • Register for session / assign students to a session
  • Unregister for session / unassign students from a session
  • Automated email notifications to registered students
  • Join session
  • View / record webinar
  • Run attendance report

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  • Andreas Kordosz
    Wed, 30 Jan 2013, 5:50 PM
    Hi Joe,

    what is the correct way to include the german language into the webinar plugin? I've tried it by creating a "/mod/webinar/lang/de/webinar.php" but this hasn't any effect.

    Thanks in advance!

    Andi
  • Joe Barber
    Wed, 30 Jan 2013, 6:12 PM
    Hi Andreas,

    Thank you for your work on this! Your folder is correct, /lang/de/webinar.php should be the right place to store your German language pack. If you ensure that the Deutsch (de) language pack is installed on your Moodle, then you can test your changes by creating a course with 'Force language' in the settings also set to Deutsch (de). If you then add an instance of the Webinar module to your new course, it should apply your new language pack; if you still have problems, try 'purge all caches'.

    If you can get the German translation working in your Moodle, once you feel it is complete I would be very happy to add your German translation to our module for the next release, along with a credit to you.

    Best regards,
    Joe
  • Andreas Kordosz
    Wed, 30 Jan 2013, 7:30 PM
    Hi Joe,

    thank you!
    Some strings (description, agenda etc.) are stll hardcoded in the view.php. I tried to define new variables in the webinar.php:
    $string['newvariable'] = 'German translation';
    and in the view.php:
    get_string('newvariable', 'webinar').
    Any idea why this doesn't work?
    After creating a new course and adding the webinar module, instead of description it displays 'newvariable' instead of the translated string.

    Best regards,

    Andreas
  • Joe Barber
    Wed, 30 Jan 2013, 7:41 PM
    Hi Andreas,

    Good spot - there are two English strings hardcoded in the view.php, which I will definitely put into the language file for the next release - if you can create two strings called 'description' and 'agenda', I will make the relevant changes to view.php in the release.

    The method you describe above should work fine - if you add the above, then purge the caches, the translated strings should appear.

    Best regards,
    Joe
  • Aleksandra Radulovic
    Mon, 11 Feb 2013, 11:37 PM
    Hi Joe,
    When can we expect Webinar for 2.4+ Moodle?

    Best regards,
    Aleksandra
  • Joe Barber
    Tue, 12 Feb 2013, 5:17 PM
    Hi Aleksandra,

    The Webinar module for 2.3 should be compatible with Moodle 2.4, I have installed it on several Moodle 2.4 installations and it has been working fine - please give that a try and let me know if any problems.

    Many thanks,
    Joe
  • Samuel Witzig
    Fri, 8 Mar 2013, 6:11 PM
    We have our own Adobe Connect deployment. Is it planned to add support for non-hosted Adobe Connect deployments?
  • Carlos Kiyan Tsunami
    Wed, 20 Mar 2013, 1:53 PM
    Hi Joe
    After running cron.php, I got this message:

    Processing module function webinar_cron ...!!! Error reading from database !!!
    !! Unknown column 'f.reminderperiod' in 'field list'

    SELECT
    su.*,
    f.course,
    f.id as webinarid,
    f.name as webinarname,
    f.reminderperiod,
    se.details
    FROM
    mdl_webinar_signups su
    INNER JOIN
    mdl_webinar_signups_status sus
    ON su.id = sus.signupid
    AND sus.superceded = 0
    AND sus.statuscode = 70
    JOIN
    mdl_webinar_sessions se
    ON su.sessionid = se.id
    JOIN
    mdl_webinar f
    ON se.webinar = f.id
    WHERE
    su.mailedreminder = 0

    [array (
    )]
    Error code: dmlreadexception !!
    !! Stack trace: * line 426 of /lib/dml/moodle_database.php: dml_read_exception thrown
    * line 1023 of /lib/dml/mysqli_native_moodle_database.php: call to moodle_database->query_end()
    * line 1574 of /mod/webinar/lib.php: call to mysqli_native_moodle_database->get_records_sql()
    * line 725 of /mod/webinar/lib.php: call to webinar_get_unmailed_reminders()
    * line 259 of /lib/cronlib.php: call to webinar_cron()
    * line 88 of /admin/cron.php: call to cron_run()
    !!

    Please, can you explain me what is it and how can i solve it.
    Thanks in advance
  • Talut Dawood
    Sun, 14 Apr 2013, 12:09 AM
    Running Moodle 2.3.4

    Get error:

    Debug info:
    Error code: generalexceptionmessage
    Stack trace:
    line 44 of /mod/webinar/session_form.php: Exception thrown
    line 44 of /mod/webinar/session_form.php: call to SimpleXMLElement->__construct()
    line 194 of /lib/formslib.php: call to mod_webinar_session_form->definition()
    line 94 of /mod/webinar/sessions.php: call to moodleform->moodleform()
    Output buffer:
    Warning: file_get_contents(https://meet33984207.adobeconnect.com/api/xml?action=common-info) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/www/ecampus.academiaal-nur.org/moodle/mod/webinar/session_form.php on line 43

    Any idea how I can solve this? Thanks
  • Talut Dawood
    Sun, 14 Apr 2013, 12:12 AM
    I should add that I am using a Spanish language plug in.
  • Carlos Kiyan Tsunami
    Mon, 15 Apr 2013, 12:46 PM
    Hi it seems that there is a problem with the plugin. when i try to turn the editing on. I got this error

    Must specify a course module or a webinar ID

    More information about this error
    Debug info:
    Error code: error:mustspecifycoursemodulewebinar
    Stack trace:

    line 467 of /lib/setuplib.php: moodle_exception thrown
    line 36 of /mod/webinar/view.php: call to print_error().

    if i try to add an "HTML block" it sends me to "My home". Do you know I can i fix this problem?
    Thanks in advance

  • Carlos Jimenez
    Wed, 17 Apr 2013, 4:28 PM
    Hi Joe,

    First, nice plugin.

    When a student or teacher does "join session", Should be logged and into the room?

    I think so. what can i do?

    Sorry, i am new here.
  • Mark Aberdour
    Thu, 25 Apr 2013, 4:52 AM
    Sorry for slowness in reposnding, I had not subscribed to the forum.
    Sam (8 Mar): there is no plan to support non-hosted Adobe Connect deployments, unless it were to be added as paid work, let me know if interested in a quote.
  • self portrait photograph
    Thu, 23 May 2013, 9:49 AM
    Hi, the moodle admin interface tells me there is a version "2013031400" available for this module, but the git repo only has version "2012102900" available. I guess this needs to be corrected on the plugin directory page?
  • Margaret Richards
    Fri, 31 May 2013, 3:26 AM
    Thanks for the plugin! One issue to report: the email that gets sent to participants that I enroll in a webinar (I am the teacher / admin) includes a link to join the webinar. If the person is not already logged into Moodle, once they do login they get this error "Must specify a course module or a webinar ID".
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