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Mediasite

Mediasite in Canvas

Mediasite is Texas A&M University’s standardized streaming media system that provides either public or private access to video and audio content. Mediasite integrates with Canvas.

The primary objective of the project is to replace the VPR-IT’s MediaMatrix system, which will be decommissioned, with Mediasite for all relevant existing and future academic streaming media content. 

Since your course has a storage limit, Mediasite offers you a limit of 10GB for videos.

  1. Go to settings
  2. On the right-side you will find MyMediasite 
  3. Authorize the Mediasite Prod 1.3 API
  1. Click Add Presentation
  2. Select Upload New Video
  3. Find your video file
  4. Click Open
  5. Give the presentation a title (description is optional)

Selecting where to save is important. Your draft folder has a limit of 2GB for storage. Instead, use a shared folder that will have unlimited access. For that, request a shared folder to the Academic Technology staff at sph-at@tamu.edu 

To save in shared folder

  1. Click the option below My Drafts
  2. Click on Change to find the shared folder
  3. In the Destination type dropdown menu, select Shared Folder
  4. If options are not displayed, then click on the magnifier icon and type your last name
  5. Select the folder 
  6. Click on Create presentation
  7. Wait for the video to upload and process 

Once the video has completed processing, you will see a video preview and have all the
functionality to Manage the video including adding engagement and including it as part of a
collection.

In Canvas:

  1. Create a new page in Canvas 
  2. Click on the Mediasite icon (four orange dots in rhombus shape) 
  3. Locate the video you uploaded and click on Embed video
  4. Save changes to your page. 

For more information, consult the tutorials or watch the videos below.