xblock-carousel

Xblock to provide carousel of multimedia instructional content including images, video, documents. This xBlock currently supports three web hosted media formats in a unified media carousel for course content presentation. This Xblock also provides a way to integrate instructional media with a separate workspace that could be used for hands-on activities.

• Images- Any web hosted image in a format supported by the HTML tag (jpg, png, gif)
• Youtube Videos- Any YouTube hosted video.
• Documents- Web hosted documents are rendered though Google Doc Viewer and can in and supported format. (pdf, doc, xls, ppt)

Examples

Images, Videos and Documents

<carousel>
  <img src="http://met-content.bu.edu/etr2/content/images/Slide1.JPG" />
  <img src="http://met-content.bu.edu/etr2/content/images/Slide2.JPG" />
  <img src="http://met-content.bu.edu/etr2/content/images/Slide3.JPG" />
  <video src="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uHeNryKUWk" />
  <doc src="https://www.bu.edu/met-eti/files/2013/03/Final_VirtualLaboratoriesForLearning.pdf" />
</carousel>

TO-DO:

• Add support for mp4 webm videos, other providers
• Add support for html tags
• Add support for the documents uploaded to the studio static folder
• Add support for mozilla-pdf.js
• Replace xml etree with lxml