Opencast Configuration Guides

These guides will help you to configure Opencast. If you are a first-time user, please make sure to at lease have a look at the basic configuration guide.

Essential Configuration

Required for Opencast to run properly.
Arguably part of installing Opencast.

• Basic Configuration
• Database Configuration
• HTTPS Configuration

Important Configuration

Not absolutely required, but should have thought about before going live.

• Firewall Configuration
• Multi Tenancy Configuration

Security Configuration

Everything related to protecting your installation and data.

• Authentication, Authorizations, and User Management
  • CAS Security Configuration
  • LDAP Authentication and Authorization (without CAS)
  • Moodle User Provider
  • Sakai User Provider
  • Brightspace User Provider
  • Canvas LMS User Provider
  • Authentication and Authorization Infrastructure (AAI)
  • JWT-based Authentication and Authorization (e.g. for OIDC)
  • Access Control Lists
  • Stream Security
  • Role Based Event Access
• Serving Static Files
• Stream Security Overview
  • Configuration

All Configuration

A list of everything.

• Admin UI Configuration
  • Event Filters
  • Manual Asset Upload
  • Languages
  • Statistics
  • Thumbnails
• Amazon Services
  • Amazon S3 Archive Storage
  • Amazon S3 Distribution
• Authentication, Authorizations, and User Management
  • CAS Security Configuration
  • LDAP Authentication and Authorization (without CAS)
  • Moodle User Provider
  • Sakai User Provider
  • Brightspace User Provider
  • Canvas LMS User Provider
  • Authentication and Authorization Infrastructure (AAI)
  • JWT-based Authentication and Authorization (e.g. for OIDC)
  • Access Control Lists
  • Stream Security
• Basic Configuration
• Database Configuration
• Encoding Profile Configuration
• Execute Service
• External API Configuration
• External Monitoring
• Firewall Configuration
• HTTPS Configuration
• Inbox
• LTI Module
• List Providers
• Live Schedule
• Load Configuration
• Logging Configuration
• Media Module
• Metadata Configuration
• Metrics (OpenMetrics, Prometheus)
• Multi Tenancy Configuration
• OAI-PMH Configuration
• Player Configuration
  • Paella player 7 Configuration
• Plugin Management
• Search Index Overview
  • Elasticsearch
• Serving Static Files
• Stream Security Overview
  • Configuration
• Studio
• Subtitles
• Termination State:
  • Basic
  • AWS AutoScaling
• Text Extraction
• Timeline Previews
• Transcription configuration:
  • AmberScript
  • Google Speech
  • IBM Watson
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Vosk
  • Whisper
• User Statistics and Privacy Configuration
• Video Editor Overview
  • Architecture
  • Frontend
  • Workflow Operations
• Video Segmentation
• Workflow Configuration
  • Workflow Operation Handler
• Wowza Streaming Distribution Service
• YouTube Publication