My Mediasite

Follow these steps to immediately begin creating and uploading desktop recordings.

1. Log in to My Mediasite – https://mediasite.algonquincollege.com/mediasite/mymediasite – or access it via the Brightspace Tools menu within a course navbar.
2. Click on the Add Presentation button.
3. To download and register Mediasite Mosaic, click on More information under ‘Capturing video requires an app’
4. Choose what you want to do from the three options – capture video, upload new video, or link to an external video.

For a walkthrough of these steps, check out our page on how to get started with My Mediasite and the Mosaic app.

These steps take you through creating, uploading and editing desktop recordings:

1. Open the Mediasite Mosaic app.
2. Click on the microphone, camera and display icons to configure your chosen hardware and capture area.
3. If you select a camera or display that you no longer want to capture, click the ‘x’ to remove it.
4. Click the Record button (or press Ctrl + R) to begin recording, and use the Stop button (Ctrl + S) when finished.
5. Navigate to My Mediasite, click on your presentation, and once it finishes processing use Edit Details to choose your video settings, and Edit Video lower down in the menu to add chapter markers and cut sections from the video.
6. Once your video edits have been completed, you can request the addition of Automatic Closed Captions. Within Edit Details, go to the Delivery tab and use the Audio Transcription checkbox and resulting drop down menu to request these captions from the provider.

For more detailed information check out our creation, upload and editing page.

Once you’re ready to share your presentation, use the Who Can View? slider in the presentation menu to decide who can see the presentation. Please note that only people with a link will be able to access the presentation. You have a few different options to link people to the presentation:

1. Use the Share Presentation button to get a quick link or an embed code for your presentation, or to invite people by email to view the presentation.
2. In a Brightspace course, in Content, use Upload/Create to Create a File to set up a content page, and use Insert Stuff > Mediasite Content, choosing an existing presentation to add to the course. This can also be done in content item descriptions, announcements, and anywhere else in Brightspace where the text editor and Insert Stuff appear.
3. Alternatively in a Brightspace course, navigate to Tools > My Mediasite in the navbar, click on the presentation and Edit Details, and then scroll down the information tab to Add Module, at which point you can click on your Brightspace course. The presentation will then display via Tools > Mediasite Videos.

For more information, check out our Sharing Presentations page.

My Mediasite provides many opportunities for formative assessment in line with presentations, as well as quizzes which can be used as formative or summative assessment and can link to the Brightspace gradebook. Here are some of the options when working with a presentation:

1. Click on Edit Details, and on the Player tab you have the option to Enable Q&A Forums allowing viewers to submit time-stamped questions that you can categorize and reply to, giving you an idea of how well your content is being understood or how it is prompting learners to engage further with the material.
2. Also under Edit Details, you can Enable Polls. You then need to go back to the main menu for the presentation and use Edit Polls to set up poll questions and responses. This is great for quick knowledge checks or to seek opinions or feelings about the content being presented.
3. In the main menu for a presentation, use Edit Quizzes to add study guide or scored assessment questions, with a range of options for how questions and feedback are displayed. Quizzes need to be published and then enabled under Edit Details.
4. You can add presentations to a channel and give learners access to this channel to be able to annotate presentations and respond to the annotations of others. This is great for presentations that you are using to spark discussions. Use Edit Details to toggle between moderated or unmoderated annotations.

Learn more about these features via MediasiteU.

Aside from our reference pages, you also have access to technical and educational expertise to assist in your creation of video lessons:

• For basic technical support (e.g. logging in, technical errors, software and hardware issues) contact ITS via 5555@algonquincollege.com
• For training and guidance on how to create screencasts and video lessons for a range of teaching and learning scenarios, contact Learning and Teaching Services, lts@algonquincollege.com
• For assistance embedding videos within a Brightspace course, contact the Brightspace Support team, brightspace@algonquincollege.com