The building block offers integration of streaming functionality in the Blackboard learning environment. This software enables you to use the MediaMosa platform directly from inside your Blackboard courses. Manage your media content hosted on a MediaMosa platform. This tool lets you play, upload, edit and search media. Course administrators can easily include streaming media to their course documents and classes. No knowledge about HTML to embed media files is required. 

The building block is free and open source software developed by the Universiteit van Amsterdam and licensed under the Apache License.

Requirements:

• Blackboard installation (version 7.3, 8 or 9)
• Admin privileges to install building block in Blackboard
• Credentials to setup a connection with a MediaMosa installation

Installation:

• In Blackboard as a system admin go to 'manage building blocks'
• Click 'install building blocks' and point to the WAR file extracted from the distribution.
• Activate the building block by setting status to 'available'.
• Click 'properties' to configure the MediaMosa connector. You will need to provide  the url where your MediaMosa server resides and enter the credentials.

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