To broadcast presentations live or publish them to the Mediasite for on-demand playback, you must first add them on the Mediasite. Add new presentations as needed or add presentations using a user-defined schedule. When schedules are used, some or all of the recording process can be automated.
Live presentations
Live presentations are streamed to your audience as they are being recorded. When you add a presentation, you must use a server group that supports live streaming (or update the presentation’s media settings and enable this feature) to broadcast it live once you begin recording. When interactivity is enabled for a live broadcast, you can make polls available to your audience or view and respond to questions from the audience.
To inform your audience about a live presentation, send an email invitation prior to the live broadcast.
On-demand presentations
On-demand presentations are published to the Mediasite so users can access them for viewing at any time. When you add a new presentation, you can configure it for automatic publishing to the Mediasite and make it available for on-demand viewing once recording has finished. Recorded presentations located on a Recorder can be published to a Mediasite for on-demand viewing using Recorder tools. This allows you to record a presentation locally and publish it later to the Mediasite. Another option is to upload or import media files.
If interactivity is enabled for an on-demand presentation, you can make polls and surveys available to your audience, allow your audience to ask questions, and add comments and annotations. You can also publish them as podcasts or video podcasts and add additional content such as links and closed-captions.
To inform your audience that an on-demand presentation is available for viewing, send an email invitation once the presentation has been published to the Mediasite.
Presenters and players
In addition to adding presentations, you must add presenters and players. In Mediasite, a presenter is the person whose name, image, and email address are associated with the presentation in the database, the catalogs, and the Mediasite Player. You can add a new presenter, or you can import a user in a directory integrated with Mediasite as a presenter. Players determine the appearance of presentations when they are streamed live or played back as on-demand or portable presentations. You can customize Players to reflect unique branding with custom images and banners or by adjusting the appearance and functionality to meet your organization’s needs.
In this chapter, we describe how to add presentation templates, presentations, presenters, and players. We also describe how to create and manage schedules.