Media collection embed

Maintained by Adam Olley
Allows you to have carousels of a media gallery or galleries displayed in your course in labels and such.
Price option: Free

Supports Moodle 2.5-3.1 See all versions
Latest release: 11 years ago
Installations: 57
Downloads (last 90 days): 17

Frankenstyle name: filter_mediagallery
Filters
Media gallery

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Any upgrade to Moodle 3.2?
Hi Scott,
Yeah that's the one disappointing limitation. jQuery is indeed available, but the way filters work (at least pre M2.7) makes it difficult to have it dynamically load the carousel and related JS code.
When I update the filter for M2.7+ I hope to be able to have them as fully functioning carousels rather than simply linking off to the gallery.
I thought 2.5 included jQuery but all my carousels are static.
I tried to add a media collection carousel to the front page via the insert option in an html block. It would not show up.
g k: If you were to add a Media collection activity to the front page course, you should be able to. Otherwise there are permissions issues - typically the module in a course would be restricted by permissions to only be viewable by users enrolled in that course (and further restrictions may be applied atop of that).
any way to allow these galleries to appear on the front page so that visitors can see it?
Hi Anthony,
I've addressed all the issues you've raised in the version I just updated.
As discussed "media collection" refers to the overall collection of user galleries.
Adam,
Many thanks for sharing this plugin with the Moodle community.
Please review the validation results and fix all of the issues mentioned. These changes are typically pretty easy to make but if you have any questions just let us know.
Warning Maturity information ($plugin->maturity) not found in version.php
Warning Release name ($plugin->release) not found in version.php
Warning README.md found. It is not recommended to have extensions other than .txt or .htm because file type may not be recognized by OS. You may choose the 'Rename README.* to README.txt' option to rename this file to README.txt (click 'Back' if form is uneditable)
I am less concerned about the README notice as I believe we are preparing to allow for the .md file.
It appears from the README that this plugin is also dependent on the tinymce component so that should probably be added to the version.php file. I had inquired in the media gallery activity module if you were planning on having versions for Moodle 2.6 and later. If you get to 2.7 it may be worth thinking about creating an Atto plugin as well.
If you think appropriate it would be nice to have some type of screenshot. I was successfully able to install the plugin but did not really test it. In part, because I was not exactly sure how to test it so it may help to make the documentation about how to use the filter.
The code checker showed no warnings or errors:
Files found: 4
filter/mediagallery/lang/en/filter_mediagallery.php
filter/mediagallery/db/install.php
filter/mediagallery/version.php
filter/mediagallery/filter.php
Well done!
As mentioned previously because of the licensing issue with https://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=mod_mediagallery I am going to mark this as needing more work. Please do not hesitate to let me know if there is anything I can do to be supportive of your efforts. Peace - Anthony
p.s. - I noticed that in some places things are referred to as Media collection and other places as Media gallery. I try to encourage consistency unless there is a method to the madness that I have missed.