iTunesU Manager

This Drupal distribution lets you create, edit and manage iTunes U-compliant podcasts. It handles all the iTunes U metadata per collection and track, and you can import existing feeds to later edit. Also, it allows you to delegate file uploading, feed publishing, etc. to different people on your organization. It also imports and parses iTunesU usage reports.

New in 1.0: Support for the new .TXT format raw logs. In January, Apple discontinued the XLS-format reports sent by email. Now you can load any XLS files you already have PLUS the new TXT format logs, and get a single full report spanning all dates regardless of the report file format you import.

Some current users of this app are UNESCO, University of Wisconsin-Madison, New Media Consortium (NMC) and Tecnológico de Monterrey.

Features

• NEW in beta4: Import and graph the XLS iTunesU usage reports for tracks and collections.
• Import existing feeds
• Drag-and-drop track ordering
• Media file uploading to a remote FTP server (optional)
• Feed publishing to a remote FTP server (optional)

The basic workflow is as follows: all registered users can create a podcast collection and assign items to it. Users with the "Content manager" role can additionally edit items created by all users, and also specify a final FTP destination per collection and do the actual publishing of feeds to the FTP server.

This project is sponsored (and in active use!) by Universidad Virtual del Sistema Tecnológico de Monterrey.

Installing & upgrading

For installation, please read the included INSTALL.txt. During installation you will be prompted for any requirements to set up the application.

If you're upgrading from previous versions, just download and unzip the full version on top of your existing site (your settings will be retained) and then go to /update.php on your browser to complete the update process.