Demo & Test Instances

Opencast has a number of demo instances you can take a look at if you want to experience Opencast without actually installing it locally! These are also used by project members for QA purposes, so you may see testing data from time to time.

• Administrative Interface (Admin UI)

  

  This is what your administrative and operations staff use to create, update, and manage the events at your institution. This UI lets you control all of your metadata, and organize your events into series. Both events and series can have access control lists defining who can see which recordings. You can experiment with the admin interface here, powered by our development infrastructure.

  Video Portal (Tobira)

  

  This tool is what your end-users see, unless you embed your content in your LMS. Tobira was designed from the ground up to be Opencast’s new media portal. Tobira runs separately from Opencast, but serves the same files and enforces the same access control rules. It integrates seamlessly into Opencast, and even powers our conference recordings in our tobira instance!

  Video Editor

  

  This tool allows you to edit your output videos, including removing sections, modifying thumbnails, adding captions, and modifying metadata. This UI is intended for video production staff, but some adopters also let their faculty edit their own recordings as well. Try the editor right now using our development infrastructure here!

  DIY video production (Studio)

  

  This tool, powered by Opencast Studio, lets users record wherever is convenient. It captures the display, as well as a webcam and audio, and can automatically package the recording for Opencast, or you can save the recording to your local disk. Try it right now with studio.opencast.org, no Opencast install required.