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Podcasting is an easy way to deliver a series of audio files in such a way that people can subscribe and have all current and future 'episodes' downloaded automatically to their computer or media player.

Podcasting in Moodle

To podcast in Moodle, create a discussion forum and activate an RSS feed for the forum. Then simply post messages with media files as attachments. These will be delivered as podcasts in the RSS feed.

Note: This works in some situations and not in others. For example, users that do not have full permissions to access the forum may find that their podcast software does not have rights to the media files.

Software for receiving podcasts

Apple's iTunes is currently one of the more popular pieces of software for subscribing to podcasts
Juice (previously known as iPodder) which is open-source and available on Windows and Macintosh.
Songbird, a truly cross-platform, Open Source media player.
Rhythmbox for the Gnome Desktop
Amarok for KDE

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-"Podcasting" is an easy way to deliver audio files in such a way that people can subscribe, and receive regularly-updated downloads automatically to their computer or media player.
+{{Working with media}}
+Podcasting is an easy way to deliver a series of audio files in such a way that people can subscribe and have all current and future 'episodes' downloaded automatically to their computer or media player.
-:''Technically, a podcast is a "newsfeed" with media files added as "enclosures".''
+== Podcasting in Moodle ==
-There are two possibilities for podcasting using Moodle:
+To podcast in Moodle, create a discussion forum and activate an RSS feed for the forum. Then simply post messages with media files as attachments. These will be delivered as podcasts in the RSS feed.
-# Starting from Moodle 1.6, simply use the discussion forums tool! If you create a discussion forum and activate RSS feeds for the forum, you can simply post messages with media files as attachments. These will be delivered as podcasts in the RSS feed.
+''Note:'' This works in some situations and not in others.  For example, users that do not have full permissions to access the forum may find that their podcast software does not have rights to the media files.
-# Use the [[Ipodcast]] add-in, which creates a specific podcasting activity type in Moodle. The advantage of this method is that it includes extra ''metadata'' designed to work well with Apple's ''iTunes'' software (such as keywords and category labels).
-You may also like to know that a podcast ''about'' Moodle is in preparation, tentatively called "Mcast".
+== Software for receiving podcasts ==
-==Software for receiving podcasts==
+* Apple's [http://www.apple.com/itunes/ iTunes] is currently one of the more popular pieces of software for subscribing to podcasts
+* [http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/ Juice] (previously known as ''iPodder'') which is open-source and available on Windows and Macintosh.
+* [http://getsongbird.com/ Songbird], a truly cross-platform, Open Source media player.
+* [http://www.gnome.org/projects/rhythmbox/ Rhythmbox] for the Gnome Desktop
+* [http://amarok.kde.org/ Amarok] for KDE
-Apple's [http://www.apple.com/itunes/ iTunes] is currently one of the more popular pieces of software for subscribing to podcasts. The "original" program is [http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/ Ipodder] (now called "Juice"), which is open-source and cross-platform.
+==See also==
+*Using Moodle [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=7230 Podcasting module forum]
+* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcasting Wikipedia article on podcasting]
+* [http://www.apple.com/podcasting Apple webpage on podcasting]
+*[[Audio in Moodle]]
+[[Category:RSS]]
+[[pl:Podcasting]]

Documentation

Podcasting: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 13:35, 12 October 2011

Podcasting in Moodle

Software for receiving podcasts

See also