Opencast API

Administration tool ::: tool_opencast
Maintained by WWU logo smallLearnweb – University of Münster, Tobias Reischmann, Tamara Gunkel, Opencast Integration
Part of set Opencast.
This tool provides API functions as well as general settings for the different opencast tools (e.g. block_opencast, filter_opencast, repository_opencast) and is required by them. The tool stores the relation between courses and series ids and offers webservice endpoints for the opencast role provider.

Opencast API v3.8-r1

Moodle 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9
Released: Tuesday, 3 December 2019, 6:44 PM

Opencast API

This tool provides API functions as well as general settings for the different opencast tools: * block_opencast * filter_opencast * repository_opencast

The tool stores the relation between courses and series ids and offers webservice endpoints for the opencast role provider.

Settings

Here the general settings for the connection to your opencast server can be set. Required are the server and the API user.

Make sure that the API user you define here has the necessary access rights in opencast to actually access the API endpoints for events, groups and series.

Additionally, you can define a timeout for the connection.

License

This plugin is developed in cooperation with the TU Ilmenau and the WWU Münster.

It is based on 2017 Andreas Wagner, SYNERGY LEARNING

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see .

Version information

Version build number
2019112100
Version release name
v3.8-r1
Can be updated from
v3.4-r1 (2018070400), v3.5-r1 (2018102900), v3.7-r1 (2018102900)
Can be updated to
v3.9-r1 (2020090700)
Maturity
Stable version
MD5 Sum
3684410e1553d9412b08b42dfb61c499
Supported software
Moodle 3.5, Moodle 3.6, Moodle 3.7, Moodle 3.8, Moodle 3.9

Version control information

Version control system (VCS)
GIT
VCS repository URL
VCS tag
v3.8-r1

Default installation instructions for plugins of the type Administration tool

  1. Make sure you have all the required versions.
  2. Download and unpack the module.
  3. Place the folder (eg "mytool") in the "admin/tool" subdirectory.
  4. Visit http://yoursite.com/admin to finish the installation