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