Section: Software and Platforms

ClaireCourseMaker Library

Participants : Nicolas Hairon, Cécile Roisin.

The goal of the ClaireCourseMakeris to provide straightforward editing tools for structuring, annotating and timeline-based authoring of continuous content such as audio or video. Even if it can be used for any content, it is mainly devoted to synchronize pedagogical material (video, slides, chaptering, etc.) in order to provide rich media online courses à la MOOC. The underlying technology is standard-based and uses the open source JavaScript Popcorn library and Popcorn Maker web application by Mozilla.

The result is a wysiwyg web-based authoring tool which benefits from all the generic features of Popcorn and the specific services that cope with chaptering and synchronization needs.

ClaireCourseMaker is the direct follow-up tool of the Timesheet library which is a cross-browser JavaScript implementation for scheduling the dynamic behavior of HTML5 content that can be described with declarative SMIL markup (SMIL Timing and Synchronization , SMIL Timesheets ).

ClaireCourseMaker is developed in collaboration with the OpenClassrooms company i n the context of the Claire project (see section  8.1.1 ).