Moodle - Filter Pod

This is the version Beta 0.1 of moodle-mod_pod-filter. That means that this version is still in development and you might encounter bugs or issues that will not be present in the final version.

Add a filter for urls of videos from pod and convert them to iframe to simplify the integration of videos in courses.

Description

Pod is a video sharing platform. with the mod link that points to Pod video content are converted to a embed code. Here is a list of the types of link that can be converted :

https://pod.univ.fr/video/test_video/

A basic link

<a href="https://pod.univ.fr/video/test_video/"></a>

A link type href ('Insert media -> link' or 'Link' in the text editor)

<video><source src="https://pod.univ.fr/video/test_video"></video>

A video link with 'insert media -> video' in the text editor)

All this links are converted into :

<iframe src="//pod.univ.fr/video/test_video/?is_iframe=true" size="240" width="640" height="360" style="padding: 0; margin: 0; border:0" allowfullscreen ></iframe>

Install

To install the mod follow these steps :

• Have Moodle installed in version 3.1 or higher
• Download the mod as a Zip from this github repository.
• Move the .zip archive to your 'filter' dir of your Moodle (Default path on Linux : /var/www/moodle/filter, on Widows : C:\server\moodle\filter)
• Extract the archive. You should now have a folder named 'pod'.
• Go to your moodle homepage and log into as a administrator.
• Your moodle will automatically detect the new module. Follow the steps that will be shown.
• Go to 'Site administration' -> 'Plugins' -> 'Filters' -> 'Manage filters'.
• Find 'Pod' and change the 'Disabled' option to 'On'.
• You can configure the filter if you want (url to Pod site, quality by default of the video embedded, width and height of the iframe)
• Now you can use the new filter.

Uninstall

To uninstall the mod follow these steps :

• Log into your moodle as a administrator.
• Go to 'Site administration' -> 'Plugins' -> 'Filters' -> 'Manage filters'.
• Find 'Pod' and click on 'Uninstall'. Follow the instructions.
• The mod is now uninstalled.

Contributing

You are authorized to contribute to the development of this mod :

• Testing and creating issues.

• Submitting code through Pull Requests. Only two restriction :

  1. Make a branch for the modifications and name it as follows : <github_account>/feature_<name_of_feature>. If this is a bug fix : <github_account>/bugfix_<name_of_bugfix>.

  2. The branch must be made from the 'dev' branch.