Course Element "Podcast"
Profile
| Name | Podcast |
|---|---|
| Icon | |
| Available since | Release 7.1 or earlier |
| Functional group | Knowledge transfer |
| Purpose | Provision of subscribable audio and video episodes |
| Assessable | no |
| Specialty / Note |
With the course element "Podcast" you provide audio and video contributions to your participants in the course. You use it to publish self-created audio and video files in chronological order or to integrate the episodes of an external podcast into OpenOlat.
The individual audio or video files of a podcast are called episodes. Participants listen to or watch the episodes directly in OpenOlat. They can also subscribe to the podcast, for example via RSS or iTunes, and load the episodes onto their mobile device.
You can also configure the course element so that participants contribute episodes to the podcast together.
Create or edit episode
You define who may create new episodes in the configuration of the podcast, see Configure a podcast in the course element. Persons with this right see the button "Add episode" and use it to upload their audio or video contribution to the podcast.
An episode always contains exactly one audio or video file. Select the file on your computer, OpenOlat then uploads it. Depending on the size of the file, this takes a while. The formats FLV, MP3, MP4, M4V, M4A and AAC are allowed.
Step 4 of the instructions How do I create a podcast? describes the exact procedure.
Comment on episodes
All logged-in persons who see the podcast comment on the episodes and rate them with 1 to 5 stars. Guests only read the comments. To post a comment or read existing comments, click on the link "Comments".
Tip
Subscribe to the podcast to never miss new episodes.
Further information
Configure a podcast in the course element >
How do I create a podcast? >
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Course Element "Blog" >