Opencast Video Provider

Moodle activity plugin which can be used to display and view Opencast episodes and series in Moodle.
Teachers can link the activity to an existing Opencast episode or series and an embedded player allows students to watch these videos directly in Moodle.
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 Moodle Documentation The Opencast Project
About this plugin
This activity can be used to display and view Opencast episodes and series in Moodle.
Users with respective privileges (in the following called teacher) can specify the ID of an existing Opencast
episode/series to add it to their course. An embedded player allows students to watch the videos directly in Moodle. As with every activity, the teachers can restrict the access to the videos for students based on e.g. dates, grades or user profiles.
The Paella player is used to play the videos.
The integration with the Opencast Videos block makes the handling and access restriction of Opencast videos very simple.
Videos can be uploaded via the block and made available via this activity.
The block offers the functionality to add activities so that teachers don’t have to explicitly specify the Opencast IDs.
Therefore, it is recommended to use the block for adding activities. Futher information can be found in the documentation of the block.
Usage scenarios
In the following, the two usage scenarios, providing a series or an episode, are described.
Use case 1 – Provide a series
The teacher wants to provide a series for students. For example, this series contains all lecture recordings.
Steps to add the activity:
1. Add a new “Video (Opencast)” activity.