Mediasite and Video Delivery

If you’d like to request a recording of your class/event to Mediasite from a compatible Villanova space, see Request a Recording.

Mediasite Mosaic, Villanova's desktop lecture capture tool, allows you to record asynchronous lectures, slides, video, and computer functions (much like classroom recordings or narrated PowerPoint presentations). Since many users view online content with varying devices and internet connections, they may have issues viewing narrated PowerPoints. Recording with Mosaic will provide a more consistent experience for your audience.

Note: Mediasite Desktop Recorder is no longer a supported application as of June 2021; if it is still installed on your device, please uninstall and replace it with Mediasite Mosaic per the install directions below at your earliest convenience

Installing Mediasite Mosaic

• Download to a Windows Device
  • Device requirements: Windows 10 version 17763.0 or higher, 64bit, 8 GB Memory

• Download to a macOS Device
  • Device requirements: Mac OS Catalina (version 10.15) or higher

Mosaic Help Documents and Tutorials

• Preparing to Record: Best Practices and Accessibility Considerations
• Video Tutorial: Recording Your Screen with Mosaic
• Text-based Tutorial: Recording Your Screen with Mosaic (with Webcam)
• Text-based Tutorial: Recording Your Screen with Mosaic (without Webcam)

We strongly encourage you not to upload video files directly to Blackboard or to share videos on Blackboard via Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, personal email, etc.

You should upload videos to MyMediasite 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.

• Share a Presentation with a Large Audience or "Everyone"
• Share a Presentation with Specific Users
• Uploading Video Files to MyMediasite
• Enabling Your Presentations for Download 
• Uploading Content from a Mobile Device

• Overview of Editing Presentations via the MyMediasite Web Editor
• Editing Basics (Trimming & Inserting Chapter Points)
• Advanced Editing (Moving/Replacing Slides & Adding Watermarks)

• Changing Presentations to/from Private or Viewable (Video Tutorial)
• Changing Presentations to/from Private or Viewable (Text-Based Tutorial)
• Add a Shared Mediasite Folder to Your Favorites
• Deleting Presentations from MyMediasite
• Changing Your Mediasite Notification Settings

• Review & Export Analytics on Presentations
• Adding Q&A and/or Polls to Presentations

UNIT's Multimedia Technologies Team is here to help!

UNIT hosts Mediasite training workshops for Villanova faculty and staff throughout the school year. To view a list of upcoming trainings, see Workshops Schedule.

Alternatively, faculty and staff are also welcome to request private 1:1 trainings to review specific Mediasite issues. Contact a Mediasite Support contact below to set up a session. Dates/times for 1:1 sessions may be limited to UNIT staff availability.