Opencast Event Object

This ILIAS plugin for Opencast is operated and developed collaboratively by a community. The University of Cologne acts as coordinative maintainer. The first version of this plugin will developed by the ELAN e.V.. Until then this repository will be a placeholder and considered beta.

Introduces a new object in which a single Opencast video can be selected.

Usage

This plugin is meant to provide the ability to create an object in a course or a group that displays an opencast event, by choosing this event among all the available events in a form of a table list. It relies on the main ILIAS-Plugin Opencast to get the events, check accessibility and display the selected event using Paella player.

Getting Started

Requirements

• ILIAS 6.x / 7.x
• ILIAS-Plugin Opencast (version >= 4)

Installation

Start at your ILIAS root directory

mkdir -p Customizing/global/plugins/Services/Repository/RepositoryObject/
cd Customizing/global/plugins/Services/Repository/RepositoryObject/
git clone https://github.com/opencast-ilias/OpencastEvent.git

As ILIAS administrator go to "Administration"->"Plugins" and install/activate the plugin.

Creation

1. Adding a repository object of Opencast Event to the course/group.

2. Upon creating a list of available events are displayed to select from, which can be filtered after series, start date and text title.

3. After creating, user can check through the properties and set the object online as well as applying the permissions and so on.

4. When a user is landed on the content page, he/she could see the video player if the access right is permitted!