I have a smf forum and want to offer live classes on it. I cannot figure out how exactly to do this. I didn't see any mods on the smf site so I am assuming I would have to embed something? Maybe I am using the wrong keywords? live video conference If I have to, my second choice would be putting something on my Joomla site. Thanks, Karen
I am not familiar with SMF forum but I do know that with every forum you get in this world, you get hacks for it. Normally you find sites dedicated to it. In this case a simple search brought this up: http://www.smfhacks.com/hacks.html Find a video hack or embed video hack that deals with youtube, google etc. and you will have the ability to embed video into your forum.
I am not exactly sure what you mean by live classes. I have a fairly good idea though. If you mean live streaming of something you will need some custom features I suspect. However, this is fundamentally built to be an e-learning center of sorts http://moodle.org/ We thought about offering design related course work but got way to busy to even think about it. Moodle has been around for a while now and is fairly mature at this point. I have not messed with it in a while though. hope that helps, Nigel
Moodle is well worth the effort. I'd recommend it to anyone and everyone. The application itself is free. If you need hosting and customization that will probably cost extra but there are good deals out there.
I dont know about the live streaming video (although the previous suggestio nof moodle looks great!), but I do know that in SMF you can install a mod that lets you drop code into a fresh page all inside of your SMF template, including the nav, and profile information footer and all. But if you just wanted to embed your moodle inside a post, or anywhere for that matter. you can easily make a blank post, go into the database, and change th content of that post to all the code to embed your moodle. Because SMF won't accept code when you input through the forum, but when it reads the post from the database, it will take exactly what it see's and posts it. I used both these methods on my SMF forum for 1) Creating many custom integrated pages to house a PHP script I wrote for an intricate offer system 2) To instert a dynamic PHP script into a post that would get the loged user's name and create a ID for my windows/mac program that would let capture images, let them upload images to the site, and mark that they were that users because tehy were logged in 3) to embed a flash file inside a post I hope that wasn't too confusing and you can make this work! If your having troubles and would still like to get it integrated with your SMF forum, then I'd be happy to help for hire. -Josh