[Offtopic] Fwd: Clickview integration in Moodle

[stephen at melbpc.org.au]

Anyone integrated Clickview into Moodle?

If so perhaps u can email Jason directly?

> From:   Jason Hando <jhando at gmail.com>
> Date:   Fri, 27 Feb 2009 09:40:35 +1100 
> Subject:   [Oz-teachers] Clickview integration in Moodle 
 
Hi All,

Just got off the phone with ClickView, trying to work out if there is an 
elegant and teacher-friendly way to get ClickView content integrated 
inside Moodle. Have been asked about this at a NSW DET school I am 
contracting at.

Here's what I found out so far, and there is a question for you at the 
end.....

You can link to videos inside Moodle but that link will only work on the 
school network unless you have the additional "CV Home" product 

Once you have CV Home you can use a different link in Moodle that will 
work from outside the school

But the link will work with an additional layer of authentication and I 
believe will just redirect users to the CV Home website. In other words, 
embedding of videos in a Flash Player inside the Moodle course is not 
possible 

Microsoft Silverlight plugin is required to play the videos in a browser

There is an xml file that can be used in some way, maybe similar to 
learning objects using the IMS Content Repository or MrCute plugin 


Now for my question: can this be done more elegantly so that teachers 
simply click "Add a Resource" in Moodle and choose "Add a Video" and then 
search the database of videos from the ClickView library? 

Even if it worked against the standard library. But ultimately against 
the additional custom content added at each school.

Thanks,

Jason 

p.s. wouldn't it be nice if CV had a YouTube style website that did away 
with their proprietary server software being duplicated at every school? 
Dreaming?
 
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Cheers,
Stephen