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Materials module offers course administrators a flexible method of populating, organizing and displaying course materials, as well as controlling access to copyrighted and/or time-sensitive content. 

  • It supports access based on class membership, staff-only, MIT-wide and world.
  • It has support for html5 pseudo streaming
  • Integration with Calendar: Materials author can post materials events to calendar
  • Integration with Membership: Gets course information, course membership information and person information from Membership APIs.
  • Integration with Gradebook:  For homework, Materials stores assignments, solutions, submissions and submission comments. Materials delegates to GB for permission and authorization.

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  1. Supports application certificate authentication but not impersonation. 
  2. Requires membership API and gradebook API to be available. Does not cache information form from these API.
  3. Not yet SCORM compatible
  4. No support "yet" for transcode of audio and video files from one format to another.

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