Contact
Address
Normal Hall 301
Indiana State University
Terre Haute, IN 47809
Phone
812-237-2676
Fax
812-237-8446
Email
cirt@indstate.edu
Hours
Monday - Friday
8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Video Streaming at Indiana State University
Login to your Blackboard course site. Then click on the link for your course site and then click on Control Panel.
Determine where you want to add your streamed video. For this example, we will add a URL to Course Documents.
Now choose Add URL from the list of choices - from the menu bar.
Under external link, type in the name of the video stream.
Contact the videographers to get the URL address for your streamed video and then enter the address in the URL text box.
Type in a description of the content that will be video streamed.
Complete the options section: You can decide to make the link visible or invisible. You will likely not want to launch the item in an external window due to pop-up blockers.
You can selectively release this link by determining start and close dates and times.
Click Submit.
You will now see your link.
Click Ok.
You are then returned to the control panel and you can follow the breadcrumb trail and click on the name of your course.
Now click on Course Documents from the home page.
Now click on the URL for the video stream to check that it is working
You may wish to remind students that they may need a viewer to view a video streamed file. If you would like to include a link to viewers and plug-ins you can add a link (using the URL tool) to your course. Viewers and plug-in links are available here. Depending upon whether the learner uses a Mac or a PC will determine the type of plug-in that the student will download.
Note: You can also stream audio only. If you have the audio files that you wish to have streamed contact the ISU Videographers and they will prepare the files for upload to the streaming server. The process for adding the address of the streamed audio is the same; you would use the URL tool as you did in this tutorial.