Classroom Presentation Management System

I use this in my classes to easily record, manage and upload arbitrary amounts of student presentation videos.

Features include:

• Google login
• Manage lists of scheduled presentations
• Automatically start, pause, resume and finish recordings and move through your list at the click of a button
• YouTube integration: Upload all videos to YouTube and add them to a given playlist at the click of a button
• Real-time status updates
• Multi-cohort support (crude)
• ... and more

Uses React, Firebase, Bootstrap and (my own) DBDI (data-binding by dependency injection).

Snapshot from an early version shows a presentation list that is currently live (presenting in progress or about to start):

TODO for Domi

• data by cohort

• user registration with cohort consideration

• make relationships work

• clean up the TODO lists!

• titles for session

  • add session title to video title
    • possibly remove original "presentation title

• start doing those playlists

• presentationStatus gets overridden when explicitely starting the "preparing" presentation

• when fileId has been set before, "startPresentationSessionStreamRecording" causes problems: set_streamFileId(streamArgs, presentationId), set_presentationFileId({ presentationId }, presentationId),

• Space: no errors shown when trying to save and out of space (or in general when writing blobs)

  • need a space indicator in the operator view

• Show connection status in live session?

• Operator/presenter should have it easier to double check user name + title?

• user operator & new user access privileges

• creating new presentations from list of previous session

• evaluations, note taking, tracking "projects" (or "teams"?)

• multiple cohorts!!!

• when user logs in sees self highlighted in list

  • also sees warning + estimated time in "live session" header

• More explicitely enable the different debug switches?

  • Any writer call
  • Any Load/Unload
  • Any change to data
  • etc...

TODO: External Camera

• webcam @ 720p is still really bad quality (especially in room that is not very well lit)
• "Currently, people who want to do Video Conferencing with 'non-webcam' cameras, (internal/USB HDMI capture cards) are forced to use Xsplit to setup their video source, then Skype or Zoom will 'see' Xsplit as an available webcam input."
• Try Webcamoid for Windows first - https://webcamoid.github.io/#downloads
  • virtual camera support: https://github.com/webcamoid/webcamoid/wiki/Virtual-camera-support
• [Expensive; Windows only] SparkoCam Virtual Webcam: https://sparkosoft.com/how-to-use-dslr-as-webcam

TODO: Basics

• Basic user management

  • Add new option: auto-registering of new users can be turned on + off (for short periods of time)
  • presentation <-> user name matching -> match user name to actual (but unregistered) user via admin interface
  • User table -> show all info
  • Easily edit all info
  • Easily approve all (and/or individual) unregistered users

• many2many relationships

  • for all deletes: add an optional batchUpdate parameter
    • delete calls that did not receive it, create one themselves
    • and flush it at the end of their call

• 讓 user 提供　檔案　連結

  • make sessions viewable by normal users
  • Match user ids to presentation
    • match by fullName and add stronger user editing features
  • New screen for users to see and edit their own presentations
    • Button to quickly edit their stuff from the PresentationView

• External mic support

  • 沒有麥克風的時候，要收動叫系統切換 audio input
  • can I detect when a multimedia device is gone or do we have to long-poll?
  • change to default when gone
    • restore when available again?

• be able to keep writing file, option not to override

• button to shuffle PENDING presentations

• import + ready up this week's presentation list!

  • account for every single user!

• non-admin [O]perator

  • new database write rules
    • change all (most) rules to use displayRole instead of role, so it's more accurate when testing
  • dropdown component to let admin set operator [OperatorSelection]
  • be able to observe more detailed [O]peration info online (so we can watch non-admin operator)
  • test with non-admin account

• generate per session playlists

  • edit + view session title

• [N, O, (E)] network-enabled presentation timer! -> https://firebase.google.com/docs/database/web/offline-capabilities#server-timestamps -> var offsetRef = firebase.database().ref(".info/serverTimeOffset"); offsetRef.on("value", function(snap) { var offset = snap.val(); var estimatedServerTimeMs = new Date().getTime() + offset; });

• show user last login time

• generate per user playlists

• proper project + user tagging for presentations

• project management -> account for every active project -> possibly get a status update for each presentation that has a project in its focus -> archive/unarchive projects -> start new project based on presentation

  -> generate presentation list for new session -> ideally based on all currently active projects + any individual user who does not have a project -> (possibly cycle based?)

  -> generate per project playlists

  -> fix layout for [O]perator to prevent elements from moving around (disabled/invisible, not hidden!)

Bugs

• Last finished entry in presentation table is in the wrong part of table ("pending")
  • Should not be able to edit multiple rows at a time (one per table split).
• things get messed up when the order is distorted during recording?
  • first video somehow got overwritten... when someone changed order at around the same time as recording started

TODO: Advanced

• Proper testing setup

  • https://medium.com/welldone-software/an-overview-of-javascript-testing-in-2018-f68950900bc3

• 讓他們上傳他們的簡報

• 提出問題／提示給他們 (notifications)

• 客觀的寶寶村制度？？？ -> Improved presentation mode -> [N] Who is up? -> [N] Who is next? -> let non-dev users easily manage + delete files -> automatic audio noise + volume adjustment?

  -> [E] inline editing

  -> features for normal users: -> presentation session + presentation -> own + participating playlists -> see + review feedback -> give/edit/evaluate feedback -> project view -> let users provider supplementary material (at least presentation URL)

• Volume indicator:

  • https://github.com/webrtc/samples/blob/gh-pages/src/content/getusermedia/volume/js/soundmeter.js
  • https://github.com/cwilso/volume-meter/blob/master/volume-meter.js

• Screen recording

  • (be able to record projector output as well as the speaker)
  • https://github.com/muaz-khan/RecordRTC/blob/master/simple-demos/video-plus-screen-recording.html

• Recording should be possible even when the internet is cut off.

TODO: Cohorts

• Split all data into two: Global data and per-cohort data
• Have one DataSourceProvider each
• User data will be global
  • UserModel must provide list of per-cohort uids
  • all (ccurent) user queries should still work but internally make use of the cohort-level of indirection to get it's data
  • PROBLEM: Relationships cannot traverse trees
  • PROBLEM: DataProvider cannot concurrently provide multiple trees

Neat little insights + gists

• Correct line numbers in React render errors:
  • https://github.com/facebook/react/issues/6062#issuecomment-256641386
• [Example] Working with fetch + StreamReader: fetch('localhost').then(res => res.body.getReader().read().then(({ done, value }) => console.log(new TextDecoder("utf-8").decode(value))));

Add professional camera as webcam

• https://www.knowrick.com/blog/how-to-setup-canon-dslr-t3i-as-a-webcam-on-mac
  • Use Cam Twist (works on Mac + Windows)
• This guy converts HDMI to USB: https://ozar.me/2014/03/using-hd-camcorder-mac-webcam/
  • (but apparently the converter is super expensive??)

Troubleshooting

• npm install fails on Windows: "Error: EPERM: operation not permitted...
  • https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/10826
  • npm config edit
  • cache-lock-retries=1000