ChrisBrainPOP

@apoth0r S'OK, no offence taken ;-) There seems to be two points to your comments: why don't we do SCORM packages to avoid all this fuss and why haven't we done our bit instead of asking the Edugeekers if they can help? Good points. We've only been going in the UK for a year, we're a tiny team (with no technical VLE expertise, yet) and we want to get simple solutions together that we can recommend, for multiple different VLEs, that help teachers get to BrainPOP. We're not ruling out SCORM in any way - it may be that the 15 or so volunteers to this thread (a number of whom are Moodlers) will all recommend that SCORM is the answer. Then it's incumbent on us to investigate the best way to do that. It's not that we were unaware of SCORM etc but that opening up the discussion with knowledgeable VLE Managers/Admins seemed logical. Whilst I'm not looking forward to packaging against multiple standards of SCORM for multiple VLEs it will take time and money to do that. Both of which we don't have in abundance - we're not all giant faceless publishers with teams of technicians. It may be, after research, that it's not really worth creating SCORM packages for BrainPOP material. We don't require "1000's of usernames" (just one) and we take pride in all the other stuff that happens in and around our website. Reducing our content to a commodity (which is an unfortunate "soft" side effect of SCORM packing) means potentially that the worth of everything else we do that is related to the content & website gets ignored, or worse, never even found. A recent example might be the TeachMeet movie we created for Northamptonshire. For free, simply to support good CPD. But yes, absolutely we may SCORM. Or it may be that a useful embedding tool a la YouTube is the solution. Or both. We're now Shibboleth compliant which may actually be a better solution for some Authorities and schools for a webservice then content disaggregation. As to your second point, we didn't ask anyone to research this challenge for free; we've had a number of examples of BrainPOP working in their VLE (for which we're very grateful); we're open to any suggestions that people have and finally, we have been doing work towards the VLE question - this thread is part of it. And I wouldn't say there are "thousands of other websites that offer exactly the same as [us]" any more than I would say there are 1000's of ICT Technicians that offer exactly the same as yourself. No offence ;-)

Well, we try to make things as fun as we can. Have you seen our new boardroom table ;-) What immediately springs to mind is how we can help you with the staff knowledge; to remove the burden from you. If we had a really good transcript of the process we could even build a BrainPOP animation that helped them understand what to do and e.g. an accompanying mock lesson plan to make it feel more comfortable. We're also building an auto login tool that will make this process falling-off-a-log easy. We could even send awesome freebies to your school to hand out as rewards for the teacher that creates the best VLE page for BrainPOP resources. There's lots we can do to help you - someone also suggested a VLE pack containing fun Tim and Moby images for hyperlinking. We could include this type of thing too. Sometimes the hardest thing is not just to get the content into the VLE but to get teachers appreciating your hard work and using the resource!

@dwhyte85 - Thanks for the Studywiz offer. I spoke to Mat (our Support Manager you spoke to) who filled me in. Studywiz is one of the missing VLEs in our list so we'd be very grateful if you could find the time to test and write up your research. Your thoughts on how to do it are probably on the money. We're also looking for suggestions on how you would LIKE to populate Studywiz with BrainPOP UK resources (given an infinite amount of monkeys etc). Can you PM me to get things moving?

We now have Frog and DB Primary volunteers. Thanks once again to everyone for your help. We're blown away. I can feel a blog post coming on.

@Edu-IT No, BrainPOP UK movies cannot be exported e.g. as SCORM objects. All content is held behind a SSO. So I guess we're talking "about ways to point people to the BrainPOP website". There is no pupil assessment that can be recorded and ingested into any VLE assessment system. BrainPOP UK movies and quizzes are not, at the moment, available outside BrainPOP UK spaces/channels. There are no BrainPOP UK SCORM packages. We do create some special movies and upload them to our Youtube channel or via our partnerships but essentially all our resources are only accessible via authentication to the BrainPOP UK website. We do not, at the moment, provide special versions of BrainPOP UK for any exisiting VLE, such as a Sharepoint Webpart or Moodle repository. So BrainPOP UK is simple, but that doesn't mean stupid. We can build encrypted "auto sign on" URLs that you can embed into a space on your VLE, thus directing a user to the BrainPOP UK home page or resource without them being asked to use (or know) a BrainPOP UK login. We will be very soon launching "POPboxes" which will alllow our Featured movie to be embedded free via a javascript snippet (but no quiz or exterior resources). We've had problems with browser security settings stripping the code. I can get this code snippet to anyone who wants to test it if you ask me. I hope some of the above helps. By the way we've had 3 x Moodle, 1 x Sharepoint and 1 x Fronter responses and thanks so very much to those who have volunteered. If there's anyone left who runs a different system than those listed above please let me know. Might as well try to collect 'em all

Hey all, I've been speaking to @russdev about how BrainPOP UK might work in a VLE. He suggested I might want to throw it open to the Edugeek crowd to see if anyone wanted to try BrainPOP in their VLE and tell us how they did it? You've probably never heard of us (which is fine, we're small and new). We're essentially a cross curricular animation content supplier where the content is accessed via the browser (Flash based, SSO, subscription). You can find us all over the internet so I'll leave Google to do it's job if you want to know more. I'm happy to offer cool merch freebies to any NM or VLE Manager who wants to give it a go + a free 6 month subscription to BrainPOP UK resources to the school of your choice. All we want to know is: how could/did/didn't you get BrainPOP UK working in your VLE and can you tell us that story step by step (even screenshots/capture if you're feeling particularly generous) so we can tell our users how you did it? Or any ideas you have about making that integration easier? One thing we can do is create automatic authentication URLs into specific sections/pages of the site. We could supply links to specific pages, e.g. drilling down to the Science category page, or even a specific resource. If anyone is interested we're looking for the usual suspects: Kaleidos, Sharepoint, Fronter, Moodle, Frog and so on. We want to understand it from those working in schools with VLEs every day. That's the perspective we want. We'll set you up a 30 day free trial and leave you to it. We can answer most things in this thread or by email/twitter (@brainpop_uk) if you want. If you're interested PM me or email infoatbrainpopdotcodotuk This is a genuine request - huge thanks to anyone who offers to lend a hand! Chris Chief Operating Officer, BrainPOP UK

I'm Chris, the Chief Operating Officer at BrainPOP UK. I'm here to ask and answer Q's about BrainPOP. Nice to meet you all