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H5P Opencast Extension (Core)
Local plugins ::: local_och5pcore
Maintained by 
Opencast Integration, 
Learnweb – University of Münster, 
Thomas Niedermaier, 
Farbod Zamani Boroujeni
Part of set Opencast.
Moodle plugin which helps to integrate Opencast videos into the Moodle H5P core.
Latest release:
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Opencast is a flexible, reliable, and scalable open-source video-capture, -management, and -distribution system for academic institutions, built by a community of developers from leading universities and organizations worldwide.
Integrating Opencast into Moodle is realized with a set of flexible plugins.
All Opencast plugins for MoodleDocumentationThe Opencast Project
About this plugin
It provides an easy way to add support for H5P opencast to your site themes. It does this by writing new code into your theme renderer.php and config.php files, adding the code required to allow your theme to render H5P opencast content (as suggested by H5P.org in https://h5p.org/moodle-customization). Your web server process must also have write access to the Moodle installation tree for this plugin to function.
This design helps to apply the required extension to every installed theme dynamically, instead of creating an extended theme!
Using this integration now enables teachers to select opencast videos in a course, using a dropdown inside the H5P Interactive Videos' editor in course content bank. After selecting the opencast video, another dropdown will be shown to select different types of video flavor (Presenter/Presentation). By selecting the video flavor, all available qualities of the video then will be inserted into H5P Editor videos list and the rest will be processed by H5P.
System requirements:
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Min. Moodle Version: 3.10:
- From Moodle 3.10 onwards, the H5P Core has the ability to alter H5P via overriding the renderers and hooks https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-69087 to add customized scripts and styles into H5P.
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Plugins:
- Verions below v3.0-r1:
- Opencast API (tool_opencast) Version: v3.11-r3 to v3.11-r8.
- Opencast Video (block_opencast) Version: v3.11-r3 to v3.11-r8.
- Version v3.0-r1 and above:
Opencast configuration for multiple nodes setups:
If you use a constellation of opencast nodes, one for admin and another for presentation (i.e. engage node) it is important that your moodle user account in opentcast has the role that makes the services endpoint available. It is by default (and based on experience) included in the "ROLE_GROUP_MH_DEFAULT_ORG_SYSTEM_ADMINS" role.
Prerequisites:
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Proper write permission on themes directories for the server user (e.g. "www-data" Apache User)
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In case you are using the unofficial version (local_och5p_core) v1.0.0, it is recommended to uninstall it.
Features
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Extend several themes at once via Moodle's multiselect feature by holding the Ctrl key.
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Remove extensions applied to several themes at once via Moodle's multiselect feature by holding the Ctrl key.
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Display Opencast videos of the course inside H5P Interactive Videos Editor.
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Extract and display Opencast video flavors inside H5P Interactive Videos Editor.
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Extract and use different quality of the Opencast video inside H5P Interactive Videos.
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Opencast LTI authentication
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Getting search endpoint (Engage/Presentation node) from Opencast services
How it works
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In the admin setting page, there is the possibility to select multiple available themes to extend.
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Deselecting a theme will remove the extension changes.
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Only videos which are published to opencast engage player, can be displayed and process, because media index of the event must be available.
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LTI credential can be configured if the "Secure Static Files" in opencast setting is enabled.
Important for admins to know:
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This plugin creates new files within the Moodle core installation.
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By extending a theme, the plugin attempts to add own code into the files of selected themes.
How to revert the changes:
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Through the admin setting page, deselecting a theme will revert the changes.
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Uninstalling the plugin will also trigger the uninstallation event, by which all changes to the extended themes will be removed!
Revert changes manually:
It is possible to revert the changes manually, but it is not recommended doing so. However, the plugin only changes the files as follows:
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(rootdir) > themes > {your installed theme dir} > renderers.php
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(rootdir) > themes > {your installed theme dir} > config.php
Changes made by this plugin can be identified as a code block started with a comment containing "// Added by local_och5pcore plugin" and ends with a comment containing "// End of local_och5pcore code block."
Repair the loss of changes on renderers.php:
In case the changes on renderers.php or even the file itself is gone, the plugin will repeat the changes by itself which can be done simply via admin setting page:
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Deselect the defected theme, to let the plugin know that the changes should not be there anymore!
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Save changes.
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Select the defected theme again, to repeat the changes.
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Save changes.
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Please note that we don't provide any support for this plugin in the comments section on this page.
We appreciate your commendation and reviews for this plugin in the comments. For bug reports and support requests, please read the documentation first and create, if needed, a ticket in the bug tracker which is linked below.
Thanks for your cooperation.
For further help, please refer to the mailing lists and chats offered by opencast.org.
Useful links
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Contributors
Opencast Integration (Lead maintainer)
Learnweb – University of Münster
Thomas Niedermaier: Maintainer
Farbod Zamani Boroujeni: Maintainer
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I have fixed all the code precheck issues. What should I do now? Should I wait for he approval results?
Hi Farbod. Let me suggest to start watching the said CONTRIB issue so that you get notified by any comments there. And then, please wait patiently for one of the plugin reviewers gets to check your plugin.
I will do as you said, and wait for the review, looking forward to it.