November | 2013 | Thomas' Work Space

I am still in a position to get the full class list out of the system, but that is not what I need, and is not the course worksheet sheet just a calculation based on the

Solution: Use “international programs” as the “department”.

It seems “department”and “subject” drop downs synchronize only with the selection of “college”, but selection of “department” can be in conflict with selection of “subject” (Is this a good GUI?).

It also seems that this affects only the “course worksheet", but not the “class list”(Huh?)

Another example: I seem to be able to get to the Film studies course list only if I leave all other drop down to “all”..

Categories: e-infrastructure, Glitches&Errors, Institution-is-University-of-North-Carolina-Charlotte, Learning-logs, websites Tags: report-express

How to record screencasts with Kaltura in Moodle 2

2013/11/18 plagwitz Leave a comment

Go to your video assignment in Moodle: .
Click “Record screen”, “Add”, and pass the Java security Dialogues:
The default video resolution is 640*480, but you can change this by unfolding the drop down menu:
Full screen is recommended for a Slideshow:
To start, click the red record button:
You will get a few seconds to collect your thoughts:
After finishing your slide show, stop the recording from the taskbar icon, and stop the recording: .
From the video window that opens:
1. You can preview it
  And upload it which includes encoding which takes a bit of time (but not as much as encoding of webcam footage).
Finally,
1. you can see the result in your media library
3. preview it once more:
4. and submit your video content from the media library.
Kaltura screencasts can be used from any Java-compatible device. In the LRC, however, you can also record screencasts to files, using MS-Community Clips which you can still upload to Kaltura – extra step, though –, while maintaining compatibility with Mahara.

Categories: assignments, audience-is-students, lms, multimedia-recording, Screencasts Tags: kaltura, moodle

How a student submits prior content from “My content” into a Moodle Kaltura video assignment

2013/11/18 plagwitz Leave a comment

Go to your video assignment in Moodle: .
Click “Add media submission”:
Jump through the hoops:
1. switch to “my content”
2. you have to click the “search” button to show content, leave search filed empty to show all
3. note that there may be more
4. you have to select a video
5. before that, you cannot click next
confirm on the next screen
You are done when you see this: , but hey, better press “continue” to be safe:
On the next screen, you can review:
Not so clear how you get out of there…
Troubleshooting: If you run into problems, the first thing to try usually is a different web browser.