15 episodes (individual videos) can be created per series. Five series can be created per course.

Series imported into other courses are referenced. Changes to a video within a series are therefore also adopted in other courses.

Each video can be shared once at a desired position in the course.

There is no download option in the video player in Moodle, so students cannot (conveniently) download the video. Videos that are shared externally can be downloaded.

Opencast has an adaptive video player. This allows the quality of the video to be adjusted package by package depending on the connection quality. This means that videos can be played even with a poor internet connection (the image quality is then reduced).

Presenter video: Use the presenter video if you have a video file with the recording of a presenter or a movie. Opencast automatically creates a preview image for the presenter video.

Presentation video: Use the presentation video if you have a video file with the recording of a slide presentation or a screencast. It is important that the focus of the video is more on the presentation and less on the person giving the presentation, who may also be seen in the video.

If you combine two videos (presenter and presentation video) into one video in Opencast, the output file is automatically converted. It is not a problem if the source videos are in different video formats.