moodle: Stay Links alive

Submitted by wingerath on Thu, 09/20/2018 - 16:15
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Hello,

I am working with H5P in moodle by embedding Videos in textfilds by Link. I work also on different websites, so that I often transfer the courses. But then I have the Problem, that all the links are broken. Is there a possibility to keep the links alive? By placing them outside or in a repository or other ways like this?

 

Thanks and Yours

Jörg

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otacke

Fri, 09/21/2018 - 09:52

Hi Jörg!

I am not completely sure if I understand you correctly. Let me try.

What I understand (and would make sense kind of) is that your moodle instance features the H5P plugin. You use it to create H5P content inside moodle and then embed it in a text field using the embed link. These embed links don't work in other moodle courses.

Using this embed link in other courses fails, because in moodle the interaction is tied to a course. The interaction can only be accessed if users have access to the course, too. That's a restriction of moodle which is comprehensible given  that otherwise everyone knowing the link could gain access to the content -- and often teachers don't want this.

You don't have to use the embed link however to include H5P content in other courses. You should be able to download your content using the download button in the action bar below your content (you may have to temporarily activate the action bar in the settings when you create content), and you can upload it to other courses in the H5P Hub window. Instead of clicking on a content type, just choose upload in the top bar and select your content file. With the next update of the H5P plugin, you will also be able to use the upcoming copy/paste feature. Of course, you could also host H5P elsewhere (e.g. a WordPress instance) and embed content from there.

Maybe, however, you we're talking about direct links to videos stored inside moodle, and you use those links to include videos inside H5P content. In that case, the explanation for the problem is the same: moodle restricts access to the contents of a course. Uploading H5P content to other courses (or any other place) won't fix the problem in that case. You'd have to store the videos in a different place that doesn't impose access restrictions.

Hopefully, I didn't misunderstand your problem. Let me know, please.

Best,
Oliver