What are they?

Searchable, customizable online collections of Mediasite content, presented in a web page.

Features

•      Registration

•      LTI-friendly

•      Catalog sharing (links via email, embedding in website)

•      Content downloads—portable presentations, podcasts (MP3), or video podcasts (MP4)

•      RSS feed

•      Presentation moderation

•      Searchable collections can include a hierarchy or be flat. Custom catalogs support multi-level hierarchies.

What are they optimized for?

Embedding in Learning Management Systems

Applications

•      Course catalogs

•      Sharing a diverse mix of content aggregated manually from different folders.

Methods of aggregating content in them

•      Automatically add presentations by linking to a Mediasite folder and optionally filtering on a search term

•      Automatically add presentations using search terms

•      Manually using a presentation’s Publish tab

•      Manually using the Mediasite catalog application

Search features

Users can enter words or phrases in the search field and Mediasite will scan through the following items to locate presentations containing the specified terms:

•      Indexed video (closed caption) and slide text

•      Tags and presentation metadata, including custom fields

Considerations:

•      When indexed video or slide text is included in a catalog’s search results, users can view presentations at the times when the search term is found.

•      When searching within a catalog, search results show in the video preview format regardless of the original catalog layout.