Mediasite 101 Workshops

• Setup and configure the Mediasite Recorder
• Choose local recording settings appropriate to the environment and the content being recorded
• Record a presentation locally to the recorder
• Understand environmental/room considerations and how to best accommodate them for high quality recording
• Remotely monitor and control Mediasite recorders
• Troubleshoot common problems

• Recorder setup and configuration basics (connections and input selection)
• Environmental considerations
• Basic bandwidth and network requirements
• Production value basics – audio levels and quality, camera tips, lighting tips, presenter recommendations
• Recording basics – record, pause, stop
• Workflow for live and on-demand
• Advanced recorder features such as capture settings, sensitivity, and adaptive capture modes
• Encoding profile basics and selection, and how encoding profiles are used in Mediasite templates
• High motion video switching
• Pushing images and custom images

• Remote recorder management using the Recorder web interface or Mediasite Recorder Control Center
• Troubleshooting common problems and solutions

Managing Mediasite Content: Administration | 60 mins | earn .5 RU toward CTS

At the end of this course, learners will be able to

• Schedule and customize individual presentations
• Create and customize presentation templates using existing server assets
• Record a live presentation
• Record a presentation locally for manual publishing
• Efficiently navigate, find, modify and move presentation assets in the Mediasite Management Portal
• Manage presenters
• Edit a presentation

Hands-on exercises will be used to explain and demonstrate:

• Mediasite Management Portal components, navigation, search and filters
• Creation of presentation templates
• Creation of individual presentations from templates
• Presentation customization with presenters, players, links, polls, and closed captioning
• Publishing live, on-demand and publish-to-go presentations
• Presenter creation and management
• Mediasite Editor
• Uploading video content from non-Mediasite sources (media import)

Managing Mediasite Content: Delivery Options | 60 mins | earn .5 RU toward CTS

At the end of this course, learners will be able to:

• Schedule and fully automate the recording of recurring presentations
• Create custom players
• Develop a catalog publishing strategy and create custom catalogs
• Integrate catalog content into other systems
• Embed Mediasite presentations into other systems
• Select encoding settings and templates appropriate for desktop and mobile delivery
• Create live and on-demand presentations for mobile devices
• Understand which mobile devices are supported in Mediasite 6

Hands-on exercises will be used to explain and demonstrate:

• Presentation scheduling and Recorder automation options for hands-free recording
• Player customization options
• Catalog structure and hierarchy
• Use and benefits of “linked” and “independent” folders
• Real-world catalog scenarios based on content and audience
• Catalog customization options with branding, themes, layouts
• Linking or embedding a catalog into another system/web page
• Enabling a catalog with downloadable presentation content
• Enabling catalog RSS feeds and subscriptions
• Creating presentations for PCs, Macs, iOS devices, Blackberry and Android devices
  

Managing Mediasite Content: Analytics and Advanced Delivery Options | 75 mins | .5 RU toward CTS

At the end of this course, learners will be able to:

• Describe the various types of data Mediasite collects and the different types of reports available
• Create and save custom Mediasite reports
• Create private reports
• Create automatically distributed reports
• Export reporting data
• Create Mediasite podcasts
• Work with encoding settings and content servers
• Modify/transcode content that already exists on a Mediasite EX Serve

 Hands-on excercises will be used to explain and demonstrate

• Types of data collected by Mediasite
• General report types – What’s Being Watched; Presentation Statistics; Presenter Statistics; User Statistics; Authoring Statistics
• New report creation targeting different audiences – use of filters to restrict report breadth; report customization; saving reports; automatically distributing report
• Private and public report creation
• Exporting reporting data
• Podcast creation
• Overview of encoding settings and content servers
• Transcoding existing content

Mediasite Security Basics | 45 mins | earn .5 RU toward CTS or CTS-D

At the end of this course, learners will be able to:

• Describe the relationship between users, groups and roles
• Use the Mediasite Directory
• Understand integration with Active Directory and/or LDAP
• Secure Mediasite content using popular security strategies and best practices
• Explain the options for securely placing content in third party content systems

Examples will be used to explain and demonstrate:

• User, group and role creation to limit access to Mediasite presentations
• Assets and operations which can be secured
• Security properties – view, read, write and moderate
• Default security roles
• Security strategies and best practices
• Content security within third-party solutions such as course or learning management systems