Video: info for teachers and tutors

Mediasite recorder in lecture halls

Mediasite Mosaic (formerly Mediasite Desktop recorder)

Zoom Meeting

Website (partially in Canvas) to upload clips and manage desktop recordings.

Max. 500 attendees (webcam and microphone)

Your Zoom.us account

Maastricht University has bought Zoom licenses for students and staff.

Students: register with the @student.maastrichtuniversity.nl account at Zoom.us.

Staff: Once you make a meeting in Canvas, Zoom creates an account under your UM email address. Go to Zoom.us > forgot password to set a password. The meetings that you create, show up in the Zoom.us dashboard and can also be edited from the Zoom website.

Creating meetings

•You can only host ONE Zoom meeting at any given time. The determining factor for this is if you are the one who scheduled the meeting.

• Make sure that you have assigned an alternative host. Only the (alternative) host can start a recording.

If you create a meeting via Canvas, the other teachers and the tutors will be added as 'alternative hosts'. You can see the automatically added hosts when creating the meeting.

For the 'alternative host' access to work, they either need to go the the meeting via Canvas, OR login to zoom with their UM zoom account.

• When communicating about a meeting, just sending the zoom link is not enough. Also mention the meeting ID and the passcode. Why? The meeting ID and passcode truly work on all devices.

• Are you using a 'Canvas Blueprint'-course, for example because you teach Bachelor courses? Then create the Zoom meetings in the IPN-course, NOT IN THE BLUEPRINT. Paste the links, meeting ID's and passcodes into the PSY-course.
 

During meetings

• You can start meetings before the scheduled time.

• Students cannot opt out of recording.

• Recording records the active speaker.

• When entering Zoom, you will not see any previous chat messages.

• By default 'participant screen sharing' is off, but you can enable it in the session.
 

After the meeting

• Stop your recording.

• If you recorded the meeting, you can find the recording under the tab 'Cloud recordings'. and on https://zoom.us. Download the files and upload the largest file to Mediasite.

Note that recordings will be automatically deleted after 10 days.

Good to know

• Your media files in My mediasite do not count towards the 1 Gygabite storage limit in Canvas.

• Other teachers in the course cannot change or edit your uploaded media files.

• It takes some time before your upload is available. 60 seconds of recording equals 90 seconds of processing time.

• Quality is 720p. Enough to call it HD, but you would be dissapointed if Ziggo switched to this resolution.

• Expect recordings to be huge in file size. A 60 MB upload gets converted to a 600 MB file. There are ways to make the video available as a download.

After uploading

• Under 'Edit details', you need to set the 'visibility' to 'viewable'.  And you need to select your course under 'modules'. Only then will students be able to see your video. You can do this while Mediasite is still processing your upload.

• Searching by course name to find the right module.

Good to know

After recording

• The Mediasite Desktop Recorder automatically uploads your recording to MyMediasite.

In My Mediasite, under 'Edit details', you need to set the 'visibility' to 'viewable'.  And you need to select your course under 'modules'. Only then will students be able to see your video. You can do this while MyMediasite is still processing your upload.

More information

A lot of practical tips can be found online. 

Here some UM resources:

• VideUM, UM portal on video

• Online education

• Options for lectures

Support

If you cannot find the answer yourself, or if you want to discuss (technical) options for your course, please contact video-fpn.

Include how and when we can contact you.

Events

For special events, Studio MBB can be used. Contact video-fpn@ for more information.