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- Active learning is an efficient learning process that teachers can use in classrooms to put the student in charge of his own education. Outside the classroom this interaction between the teacher and his students stops. The purpose of this master thesis is to develop an extension for EZcast, the new podcasting solution that will be introduced by the UCL starting from September 2017, to promote the use of active learning outside the classroom. We chose to integrate Moodle quizzes in the video player of EZcast. This way, students and teachers can still interact outside of the classroom. Furthermore, the teacher can use the statistics of the students' answers to guide his courses and insists on less understandable topics. Our extension is seamlessly integrated in EZcast both in the code and in the general design. It allows teachers to add quizzes from their Moodle courses in EZcast videos. Questions are asked directly to the students while watching their videos. After submitting a quiz, the student receives a feedback on the answers he has chosen, some comments about the questions and a comment about her/his final grade. This helps him to pinpoint topics that he does not understand. Thus, our extension allows us to combine the quiz creation capabilities of Moodle to promote active learning outside the classroom.