Mediasite and Video Delivery

By default, recordings upload in "Private" mode to the MyMediasite account of the creator and are not automatically public to other staff and students. Recordings can only be released at the creator's discretion and only this creator has access to these recordings.

• Make a single presentation viewable
• Make an entire semester of classroom recordings automatically available to students
• Share a single presentation
• Share multiple classroom lectures with your class

Mosaic, Mediasite's desktop lecture capture tool, allows you to record presentations consisting of audio/video, slides, and/or computer programs. Many faculty who teach class in a hybrid or flipped classroom find it helpful to use Mosaic to create supplemental videos for their students as needed.

Installing Mediasite Mosaic

• Download to a Windows Device
  • Required: Windows 10 version 17763.0 or higher, 8 GB Memory, built-in or external camera and microphone
• Download to a macOS Device
  • Required: Mac OS Catalina (version 10.15) or higher, 4 GB Memory, at least 1 GB disk space, built-in or external camera and microphone

Home Recording with Mosaic

• Mediasite Mosaic directions for Windows devices
• Mediasite Mosaic directions for macOS devices

Additional Mosaic Help Documents and Tutorials

• Preparing to Record: Best Practices and Accessibility Considerations
• Choosing a recording option

We strongly discourage uploading video files directly to Blackboard or to share videos on Blackboard via Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, personal email, etc.

You should upload videos to your MyMediasite account for distribution. This will improve the viewer experience by reducing the bandwidth needed to view the videos and making it easier for people using mobile devices or slower connections to view your content optimally.

• Uploading Video Files to MyMediasite

• Reviewing and exporting analytics from your presentations
• Adding Q&A and Polls
• Adding quizzes (***note, Mediasite only allows T/F and MCQ at this time)

Use the Mediasite Editor to add finishing touches to your presentation ― trim the beginning or end, remove unwanted content, add chapters, etc. After completing your edits, you can save your edited video to the original presentation or create a brand new one.

For the best experience when editing presentations, Mediasite recommends your device meet the following requirements:

• Web Editor Best Practices
• Making basic cuts
• Adding chapter markers
• Add a watermark or logo
• Update slides
• Saving your edited presentation

• Favorite a channel or shared folder you're invited to view
• Delete a presentation from your MyMediasite account
  
• Change your Mediasite notifications
• Download your presentations

UNIT's Multimedia Technologies Team is here to help!

Multimedia Technologies staff hosts Mediasite training workshops for the Villanova community throughout the academic year. To view a list of upcoming trainings, see the Workshops Schedule.

Alternatively, users are also welcome to request 1:1 trainings to review specific Mediasite issues. Submit a request for "MyMediasite Consultation and Training" to set up a session. Dates/times for 1:1 sessions may be limited to staff availability.