Instructors often use classroom discussions to promote sharing and ideas about a subject matter. Sometimes, discussions can become rote and tedious, or engage only one or a few students and the instructor.
Instructors often spend a majority of classroom time on lectures, leaving little time for other learning opportunities such as group discussion. Capturing content is one method to address this challenge.
Creating videos for courses is time intensive and the process of creating, publishing and sharing your media with students can be overwhelming. Kaltura integrates with Canvas and allows instructors to easily upload and share video content.
Creating videos for courses is time intensive and the process of creating, publishing and sharing your media with students can be overwhelming. Kaltura integrates with Canvas and allows instructors to easily upload and share video content.
Downloading or sharing software, entertainment, or images may violate United States copyright law. Many torrent applications default to continue sharing your downloads with other users.
Downloading or sharing software, entertainment, or images may violate United States copyright law. Many torrent applications default to continue sharing your downloads with other users.
Use of Unreviewed AI Tools is ProhibitedZoom Meetings can contain sensitive information. As a University community, the security of your data and your colleague's data is a shared goal.
Use of Unreviewed AI Tools is ProhibitedZoom Meetings can contain sensitive information. As a University community, the security of your data and your colleague's data is a shared goal.
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When using pre-assigned breakout rooms, specific guidelines must be followed to ensure students are routed to their designated Zoom breakout rooms.
Uploading a large video file is cumbersome, and navigating a video recording of a 50-minute (or longer) class is challenging for students. By chunking your lecture, you can create smaller files. This is easy to do in Zoom and will benefit both you and your students.
Uploading a large video file is cumbersome, and navigating a video recording of a 50-minute (or longer) class is challenging for students. By chunking your lecture, you can create smaller files. This is easy to do in Zoom and will benefit both you and your students.
Your instructor or TA may provide office hour appointments that you can sign up for within your Canvas course site using Zoom Appointment Scheduler in Canvas.
Kaltura is a media management system that can be used to upload media files as well as to create webcam recordings. Videos in Kaltura can be viewed from phones, tablets, and computers.
Kaltura is a media management system that can be used to upload media files as well as to create webcam recordings. Videos in Kaltura can be viewed from phones, tablets, and computers.
Instructors using the Zoom tool inside Canvas to schedule virtual meetings for their classes and using cloud recording to save the meetings should consider deleting the recordings at the conclusion of the class.&
The Zoom for Canvas Integration allows you to start and join Zoom meetings from within Canvas. This article is for UMN faculty and staff who would like to use Zoom together with Canvas.
Kaltura is a media management system that can be used to upload video files as well as to create webcam recordings. Videos in Kaltura can be viewed on phones, tablets, and computers.
Kaltura is a media management system that can be used to upload video files as well as to create webcam recordings. Videos in Kaltura can be viewed on phones, tablets, and computers.
Zoom Appointment Scheduler in Canvas allows instructors to create bookable appointment slots in Canvas. This feature may be helpful with scheduling common course events (e.g., office hours, exams).
This article applies to Drupal Lite.
A YouTube video can be added to a page using a custom block. The embedded video will be the width of the region it is in and the height will scale appropriately.
You can edit your videos in several ways at the University of Minnesota. There are numerous free and paid programs that exist that you can use to edit your media. Here are a few recommended options.
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Here's how to ensure video and audio connectivity in Google Hangouts using the Mac Mini and Logitech BCC950 "eye stalk" webcam in the 202 Johnston Hall conference room.
Audience: Kaltura MediaSpace users wishing to share content with others.
Not all user accounts at the University of Minnesota are present in Kaltura MediaSpace.
Audience: Kaltura MediaSpace users wishing to share content with others.
Not all user accounts at the University of Minnesota are present in Kaltura MediaSpace.
Media owners and co-editors have the ability to download their own media files to any device. They also can decide what media files can be downloaded by others who have access to the videos.
Media owners and co-editors have the ability to download their own media files to any device. They also can decide what media files can be downloaded by others who have access to the videos.
Kaltura is a media management system that can be used to create webcam recordings, upload video files, and share videos with others. Videos in Kaltura can be viewed on phones, tablets, and computers.
Kaltura is a media management system that can be used to create webcam recordings, upload video files, and share videos with others. Videos in Kaltura can be viewed on phones, tablets, and computers.
Various groups at the University occasionally ask for a way to charge for access to video content. There are many ways to do this, but not many ways to do it that are centrally supported at the University.
Various groups at the University occasionally ask for a way to charge for access to video content. There are many ways to do this, but not many ways to do it that are centrally supported at the University.
Kaltura is a media management platform for teaching, learning, and outreach purposes. This cloud-based system automatically optimizes video files for viewing on any device.
Kaltura is a media management platform for teaching, learning, and outreach purposes. This cloud-based system automatically optimizes video files for viewing on any device.
When videos are uploaded to Kaltura in Canvas and MediaSpace, they are automatically captioned. This is done through the use of automatic speech recognition (ASR), which scans the audio track for spoken English.
When videos are uploaded to Kaltura in Canvas and MediaSpace, they are automatically captioned. This is done through the use of automatic speech recognition (ASR), which scans the audio track for spoken English.
Each video uploaded to Kaltura through Canvas has an owner. As the media owner, use video permissions to determine individual levels of access to videos for collaboration.
Each video uploaded to Kaltura through Canvas has an owner. As the media owner, use video permissions to determine individual levels of access to videos for collaboration.
When specific media (video/audio) recordings in Kaltura are set up to include chapters, viewers can view and search the chapter menu (like a table of contents) to find and jump to specific points in that recording.
When specific media (video/audio) recordings in Kaltura are set up to include chapters, viewers can view and search the chapter menu (like a table of contents) to find and jump to specific points in that recording.
You can use Kaltura's analytics tools to see who has taken a quiz, and how they responded, their score, and whether the score was successfully passed to the Canvas gradebook (if applicable).
You can use Kaltura's analytics tools to see who has taken a quiz, and how they responded, their score, and whether the score was successfully passed to the Canvas gradebook (if applicable).
Captions are the text of auditory information in a video, including words and non-speech sounds. Closed captions do not appear under a video by default but can be turned on by the viewer.
There are many ways to share videos at the University of Minnesota. Here are a few recommended options:
Canvas
To share videos to a Canvas course, use Kaltura media tools:
You can make calls to individuals within and outside of the University using Zoom Phone by entering their number or searching for them in the contact list.
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A Zoom Room is a device in a room that can capture video, audio, and make recordings without any prior set-up or can join and host meetings already set-up in the same organization as the host.
When entering into a contract with Zoom, the University's Office of Information Technology ensured full review of the contract terms and conditions and Zoom's privacy policy.
Zoom can be used to set up a phone conference call where all meeting participants access a meeting via a phone. This option allows for the use of in-room conference calling speaker and microphone equipment.
As a meeting host, you can split meeting participants into breakout rooms when scheduling the meeting.
Note: Pre-assigned breakout rooms are an advanced usage of Zoom.
Zoom Webinar registration gives you a list of attendees for your event and allows you to brand your event. From the perspective of the participants, the registration page is the front door of this branding.
Use this feature if you want to let someone else host a meeting or webinar that you have scheduled. This may be helpful if you are out of the office or late to your meeting or webinar.
You do not need a webcam in order to join a Zoom meeting or webinar.
However, without a webcam, you will not be able to enable video. Things you will still be able to do include:
You can join a Zoom meeting using a desktop, web browser, or mobile client. When you join a meeting with the desktop or the mobile client; you login to your Zoom account at the same time.
The Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) is a federal law that protects the privacy of student education records and personally identifying information.
Zoom can change the way you teach and interact with learners, by giving you the ability to hold online office hours with learners anywhere in the world on a one-time or recurring basis.
The host key is a 6-digit PIN tied to your Zoom account. It is not meeting-specific. You can use your host key to claim host privileges in the following circumstances:
Zoom has international dial-in numbers available for an extensive and growing list of countries throughout the world. Participants from abroad can join UMN-hosted Zoom meetings or webinars via telephone if they c
The HCC, or Health Care Component, is a group of faculty, students, or staff who work closely with private health information and are subject to a Business Associates Agreement (BAA) with Zoom to ensure Health Insuran
University of Minnesota students, staff, faculty, departmental, and sponsored accounts can livestream from Zoom meetings or webinars to Youtube Live and other streaming services.
The University of Minnesota's Zoom web conferencing includes a feature that uses automatic transcription to turn the spoken word into text, in real-time.
As the host or co-host in a meeting, you can manage your participants, including muting and unmuting participants to manage background noise and distractions.
If you are hosting a webinar and want attendees to take a survey or be taken to a specific webpage afterward, you can create a survey from within the Zoom Portal, or you can share a survey you create on another p
Participants in a meeting who want to share audio that is not vocal need to make settings in their desktop client so it is audible. It doesn't require specific settings to be made to the meeting by the host.
If you want other meeting attendees to see what you are working on, you can share your screen by selecting the Share Screen button in the Zoom menu bar.
Synchronous class sessions, in which everyone logs in to a web conferencing system at a pre-scheduled time, are one way to create engagement and foster community in your fully online courses.
Transferring ownership of Zoom meetings or webinars is useful in many cases, for instance when you leave the university or transfer to another department.
The Waiting Room feature in Zoom allows the meeting host to control when a participant joins the meeting. Waiting rooms have additional customization features available in the Zoom Portal.
The Zoom for Google Workspace add-on allows you to schedule and join meetings directly from a Google Calendar event. Using the Google Calendar add-on allows you to quickly add a Zoom meeting to any event.
Libraries staff experts consult throughout the University and provide training on topics related to copyright and intellectual property in research, teaching, publishing, and other creative contexts.
Libraries staff experts consult throughout the University and provide training on topics related to copyright and intellectual property in research, teaching, publishing, and other creative contexts.
To mitigate cybersecurity and data privacy risks and avoid new costs for data stored in Google Workspace, the University will no longer offer @umn.edu accounts to people after they graduate or retire.
Article from Google about how to access Google Drive and share and edit Google documents, slides, sheets, forms and drawings from within a Google Video Call (Hangout).
Google Workspace Learning Center guide on sharing files or folders with specific people, adding comments and replies, making edit suggestions, and working with suggested edits of Google Documents in Google Drive
A resource discussing several strategies, such as folder structure and tagging, that can help improve your Google Drive when used with departments or teams.
After non-emeritus faculty, staff, and students depart the University, their UMN email and Google Workspace will be closed and the contents within will be deleted—including the accounts of people who retire or graduat
Video from the creators of Hangout Toolbox on how to use the volume control feature to adjust the volume of othe participants in a Google Video Call (Hangout).
At the University of Minnesota, Kaltura in Canvas and MediaSpace now use Kaltura’s version 7 (v7) player which brought a number of improvements to both functionality and security.
At the University of Minnesota, Kaltura in Canvas and MediaSpace now use Kaltura’s version 7 (v7) player which brought a number of improvements to both functionality and security.
The Office of Information Technology (OIT) analyzed the communication tools people use to do their work at the University of Minnesota. Based on that analysis, five common communication profiles emerged.
Group and section-based permissions give instructors the ability to manage access to meetings and subsequent recordings for certain groups and sections within Canvas courses.
The Office of Information Technology’s (OIT) role for the University of Minnesota’s video conferencing environment will be to provide best practices to nurture this technology.
We recommend all room installations at the University of Minnesota conform to our standard technology architectural model which provides encryption and standardized hardware and room controls.
When using Zoom you have the potential to discuss sensitive data, including personal health information (PHI). Zoom is a secure tool, but you must use it appropriately to ensure HIPAA compliance.
Before Your Meeting or WebinarSet up Registration.For public events, set up a Zoom registration page. People with a valid email will receive an email with the link to the event.
This self-help guide will help anyone who presents at, schedules, or supports online meetings and webinars through Zoom. To learn more about using Zoom for online office hours or smaller meetings, check out