Mediasite 201 Workshops

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

• Configure a Mediasite HD recorder
• Choose local recording settings appropriate to the environment and the content being recording
• Explain the different encoding methods available and for what each is best suited (smooth streaming, WMV, MP4)
• Troubleshoot common problems

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

• Use of HD-SDI sources
• Bandwidth and network requirements for Smooth Streaming
• Workflow for live and on-demand
• Advanced recorder features such as capture settings, sensitivity, and adaptive capture modes
• Encoding setting basics and selection, and how encoding settings are used in Mediasite templates
• 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:

• Create and customize presentation templates using existing server assets
• Record a live presentation using Smooth Streaming and Windows Media
• Efficiently navigate, find, modify and move presentation assets in the Mediasite Management Portal
• Manage presenters
• Effectively use Mediasite Search to locate appropriate content
• Edit Mediasite content
• Import .wmv and H.264 content into Mediasite automatically

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

•  Mediasite Management Portal components, navigation, and filters
• Mediasite Search
• Creation of individual presentations from templates
• Presentation customization
• Presenter management
• Mediasite Editor
• Uploading video content from non-Mediasite sources (media import)

Managing Mediasite Content: Catalogs and Content Delivery | 75 mins | earn .5 RU toward CTS

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

• Use the Mediasite Scheduler with multiple recurrences
• Understand player functionality in Mediasite 6
• Develop a catalog publishing strategy and create custom catalogs using new Mediasite 6 options
• Understand how catalogs adapt for device delivery
• Integrate catalog content into other systems
• Select encoding settings and templates appropriate for desktop and mobile delivery
• Create live and on-demand presentations for mobile devices
• Use Mediasite widgets to embed and access Mediasite assets
• Understand which mobile devices are supported in Mediasite 6

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

• Player customization options
• Mediasite 6 Catalog display and delivery options
• Real-world catalog scenarios based on content and audience
• Linking or embedding a catalog into another system/web page
• Using Mediasite widgets to embed or directly access Mediasite assets
• Creating presentations for PCs, Macs, iOS devices, BlackBerry and Android devices

Managing Mediasite Content: Analytics and Advanced Delivery Options | 60 mins | .5 RU toward CTS

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

• Create and save custom Mediasite reports
• Create automatically distributed reports
• Export reporting data
• Work with encoding settings and content servers
• Modify/transcode content that already exists on a Mediasite EX Server
  

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

• 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 reports
• Private and public report creation
• Exporting reporting data
• Creating and modifying encoding settings and content servers
• Transcoding existing content

Planning Your Mediasite 6 Upgrade | 60 mins | earn .5 RU toward CTS

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

• Understand the requirements of each component of a successful, fully featured Mediasite EX Server 6 deployment
• Determine which components are best combined and separated (EX Server, search, transcode, OCR, etc.)
• Utilize capacity planning to ensure a successful Mediasite deployment
• Understand the steps involved in a Mediasite upgrade, including time considerations for migrating content
• Plan for a fail-safe Mediasite upgrade with considerations for rollback and recovery
• Backup and recovery best practices for Mediasite
  

Examples will be used to explain and demonstrate

• Capacity considerations and deployment planning
• Deployment of Mediasite software and services
• Planning a Mediasite upgrade
• Rolling back a Mediasite migration
• Backup and recovery of Mediasite content