BBC iPlayer signin for schools and colleges?

[fiza]

Glad someone posted this. I will be interested to know what exactly we are meant to do in school to play BBC iPlayer. We have TV licence. Do we need to create an account to play in different rooms or we need multi accounts or we do not need account at all.

 

I contacted the BBC about this a while ago. I got the response below ;

 

Thank you for getting back in touch with us at BBC account.I understand you would like more information on registering a BBC account.

You can register one account to be used by all teachers. However, for a more personalised experience we would recommend you create individual accounts.

We do understand that some people in same location may choose to share accounts but if unsure on this then may wish to contact TV Licensing:

http://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/faqs/FAQ11

[Arthur]

I guess the answer is no and probably illegal but are you allow to download and store programs from BBC iPlayer?

The ERA website mentions this...

 

https://era.org.uk/the-licence/frequently-asked-questions/

 

Can I record on-demand services?

Educational establishments with an ERA Licence can access and download content from on-demand services such as BBC iPlayer, All 4, ITV Hub and Demand 5 in a similar way to personal private users.

 

Users should check the terms and conditions of the services for details.

 

All rights of public performance are reserved.

[mavhc]

Easy way to do it is to install a few DVB cards in a PC and record everything automatically, then let people keep stuff before the hdd runs out and the oldest programs are overwritten

[jthompson]

I've been looking into setting up and assigning a password vaulted app in Google Workspace in order to easily give users a seamless login to a shared BBC iPlayer account. Basically, it publishes an app to workspace.google.com/dashboard for users which is preconfigured with iPlayer login credentials of a shared school BBC account. Nobody would need to know or type the credentials, it would just work. I'm thinking that if I can get it to work, I could assign it to teaching staff so that they then don't have to use their personal iPlayer accounts.

 

I can't quite get it to work and I'm hoping that it can be made to work and I've just not quite got the settings right. Has anyone else had a look at doing this? These are the settings I've tried.

 

 

EDIT:

Now working! I hadn't read the instructions closely enough. These are the settings required to get iPlayer to sign in.

 

Edited May 18, 2022 by jthompson

[jthompson]

After kicking the tyres on the password vaulted app approach, I have to say it works pretty well. The credentials get stored in the Cloud Identity Account Manager Chrome extension, such that subsequent visits to the BBC sign in page will see the extension pop-up and offer the credentials for the user to sign into the site with (similar to how a stored password in Chrome would be).

 

Think you need Enterprise Google to be able to use PVAs, though.

[paulkerton]

I've been looking into setting up and assigning a password vaulted app in Google Workspace in order to easily give users a seamless login to a shared BBC iPlayer account. Basically, it publishes an app to workspace.google.com/dashboard for users which is preconfigured with iPlayer login credentials of a shared school BBC account. Nobody would need to know or type the credentials, it would just work. I'm thinking that if I can get it to work, I could assign it to teaching staff so that they then don't have to use their personal iPlayer accounts.

 

I can't quite get it to work and I'm hoping that it can be made to work and I've just not quite got the settings right. Has anyone else had a look at doing this? These are the settings I've tried.

 

[ATTACH=CONFIG]65486[/ATTACH]

 

EDIT:

Now working! I hadn't read the instructions closely enough. These are the settings required to get iPlayer to sign in.

 

[ATTACH=CONFIG]65487[/ATTACH]

You might want to rethink this:

https://support.google.com/cloudidentity/answer/12158207?hl=en&ref_topic=9178690

[jthompson]

Yeah, I saw that in my inbox this morning. I had fun getting it to work, so I suppose it wasn't a complete waste of time. Only using it for staff to sign into iPlayer, so I guess we'll just have to revert to old-fashioned password sharing.

[ITGuyNW]

So what's the general jist with allowing iplayer in School?

 

Teachers only? Free for all?

[jthompson]

I set up an account for staff to use, as staff sometimes set iPlayer content as cover work. I wouldn't let pupils use it.

[lifeisshort]

I set up an account for staff to use, as staff sometimes set iPlayer content as cover work. I wouldn't let pupils use it.

 

Took similar approach here.

Edited August 16, 2022 by lifeisshort