Around the Corner

Recently I have been going back and fixing up a number of little things that have needed doing in PoodLL for a while. Possibly you have a few suggestions on that score too. If so please let me know in the comments section below. Anyway a new release is just around the corner. Yay.

Some of the highlights are:

• I have added a “recording time” display on the video recorder, so users can see how long they have been filming.
• Juan, a PoodLLer from Colombia ,sponsored the addition of an optional recording time limit to all of the recorders.
• The Server based conversion to MP4 and MP3 can now be selected on the recorder itself before recording. In general it is best just to use conversion for content creation since it can slow things down for students, and they probably don’t need it. This makes it easier to follow that practice.
• In the PoodLL 2.3 Assignment submission type I added the ability to export to portfolio.
• In the PoodLL Recording question type, I added import/export ability.

Also I am currently trying a feature that will have Poodll try to connect on a different port, if the one on the PoodLL filter settings doesn’t work. This will be useful when you mostly want students to connect on 1935, and only if they can’t connect(eg from their dorm), try connecting on port 80.

And there is now a Git repository for PoodLL  ..  for PoodLL for Moodle 2.3.

Finally I will be adding a specially prepared backup of the PoodLL Demo site to the downloads section. That should help new and existing PoodLL’ers get to know PoodLL better.

All that, and maybe some more HTML5 features, should be out in a new release next week. And I still have to prepare and mark end of term tests ….