Mediasite channel characteristics

Below are characteristics that distinguish channels from other methods of aggregating content:

What are they?

Searchable, customizable video collections.

Features

      Built-in video player, with settings per channel

      Responsive layout

      Registration

      LTI-friendly

      Supports comments

      Supports time-based annotations

      Supports Auto-play

      Supports full-screen player view

      Includes controls for sharing and embedding the video

      Supports an embeddable player layout

      Supports publish-to-go, vodcast and podcast downloads

      Can be shared and embedded in website

      Moderators can launch the Moderate application from a channel to manage questions from the audience as well as comments and annotations.

What are they optimized for?

      Embedding in Learning Management Systems and other pages

      Secure collaboration among users

      Searching, browsing, and playing back presentations within a single application 

Applications

      Replacement for user channels in earlier versions of My Mediasite

      Alternative to Mediasite Catalogs that support automatic aggregation

      Use with Assignment Submission

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

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

      Comments

      Annotations

Considerations:

      When indexed video or slide text is included in a channel’s search results, timeline hits appear for them. Users can use these to view presentations at the times when the search term is found.

      Comments and annotations are indexed. Presentations with comments or annotations meeting the search criteria appear in the results.