Create and Add Videos to your Mediasite Course Channel

Instructors can create a playlist called Mediasite Course Channel in Brightspace. Once created, videos can be added individually or automatically from Zoom or Mediasite. 

 

Create the Mediasite Course Channel in Brightspace

Add Videos from Zoom to Course Channel Automatically

Add Videos from Mediasite to Course Channel

 

Create the Mediasite Course Channel in Brightspace

  1. In your Brightspace course, click Resources, then Mediasite Course Channel.
    in a Brightspace course, click Resources then Mediasite Course Channel
  2. The Course Channel is created and shows up in the course frame.
    the Course Channel shown in the Brightspace course frame

Add Videos from Zoom to Course Channel Automatically

  1. Click the name of the course to go back to the course homepage.
    name of course to right of home logo in a Brightspace course
  2. In the browser address bar, select and copy the number that follows the "home/" portion of the web address of your course. This is what we call the Brightspace course ID number or ou#.
    the number at the end of the URL of a Brightspace course homepage
  3. In the Zoom portal at https://commonwealthu-edu.zoom.us edit or create a meeting.
  4. Scroll down past Meeting Options and select Yes in the Copy to Mediasite drop down menu.
  5. In the "Course ID number from Brightspace" field, paste the ou# you copied in step 2 above.
  6. Click Save.
    the options to copy your recordings to Mediasite and Course ID number from Brightspace
  7. This will automatically copy any recordings from the meeting to Mediasite and add them to your Mediasite Course Channel in Brightspace.

Add Videos from Mediasite to Course Channel

  1. In your course, click Resources, then MyMediasite.
  2. Click the name of a Presentation.
    the MyMediasite interface with a presentation selected
  3. Click Edit Details (on the right).
    click Edit Details on the presentation page in MyMediasite
  4. Scroll down to the Modules part of the page and click Add Module.
    the Add Module option on the Edit Details page
  5. Click the name of your course. Only courses in which you created a Mediasite Course Channel will appear here.
    the modules in MyMediasite which are Course Channels you created from Brightspace
  6. Click Save.
    click Save after the module is added
  7. Your presentation will appear in your course's Mediasite Course Channel.
    the Mediasite Course Channel displaying a newly added video