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Help adding chat video to a course

• grantf
  

  2007-04-22 11:19:31

  Help adding chat video to a course

  I am new to Atutor. I am hopeing someone can help me. I need to offer an online course . I need to display a training video for 40 mins and take a quize on it and then a new training video for 40 mins and then a test on it. Now I need to have a live chat , and Me on my webcam all on the same screen to teach the cours. If i can avhieve this with atutor then could some one point me in the right direcrtion to what modules to use. I was looking for open source module and solutoins.
  Thanks for reading and or posting.
  Grant

• greg
  

  2007-04-23 09:00:20

  Re: Help adding chat video to a course.

  First thing you will need to do is be sure system's php.ini file is configured to allow files the size of a 40 minute video to be uploaded. Once that has been set, you can upload the video through the file manager, then link it into a page somewhere where it can be downloaded by students.
  
  That said, the video is going to take a very long time to download for most, particularly for students on a dialup modem, unless you have a streaming capabilities. This is possible in ATutor using EPresence and the EPresense module, though it takes a little effort to install. It can do video, chats, powerpoint slides, etc.. The free version of EPresence should work for what you want to do. The paid version adds live broadcast capabilities.
  
  As for chat and test, the ATutor chat and testing features should work fine.