Review student multimedia assignments

REVISION IN PROGRESS: This article contains useful information, but is being revised to reflect recent updates. Direct questions to TLT (tlt@winona.edu).

Winona State University supports several tools instructors can use to gather and review student multimedia assignments, including student-created image, audio, and video files. Students can upload these files to our Kaltura MediaSpace media server and then share links to those files with their instructors and fellow students. They can also embed their MediaSpace files into Brightspace assignment folder submissions or discussion topic posts.

Student media publishing options

Not Brightspace

Brightspace is not a streaming media service. Although large image, audio, and video files can be uploaded to Brightspace technically, this is not a good practice and can increase the time it takes instructors to download and review those files, especially from off campus on a slower network connection. Small image files are fine, but large audio and video files should never be uploaded to Brightspace directly. Instead, they should be uploaded to MediaSpace and then linked to from Brightspace.

MediaSpace

Kaltura MediaSpace is our cloud-based streaming media service that instructors and students should use to store, manage, and share image, audio, and video files. All Winona State University students and employees have their own, private MediaSpace accounts that they can access by browsing to https://mediaspace.minnstate.edu and using their StarID username and password to log in. Students can upload multimedia files to their MediaSpace accounts from their laptops or phones. They can then share these files with instructors in several ways. MediaSpace is integrated with Brightspace and Zoom. Anyone can search their MediaSpace media library from within Brightspace and all Zoom recordings are copied to MediaSpace automatically, assuming the Zoom meeting host has logged in to MediaSpace at least once.

Unsupported services

Currently, WSU does not support any other media storage and streaming services for the purpose of publishing student academic coursework, except in very specific cases (e.g., Mass Communication students learning about YouTube in a social media course). Instructors and students use these services at your own risk.

Student media sharing options

Once uploaded to their MediaSpace account, students can share access to their files with instructors in several ways:

Link to the MediaSpace media page

Students can share a link to the image, audio, or video file with you. Use the link to browse to the file in the student's MediaSpace and review it. Students could share the link with you in several ways:

• Email it to you directly
• Paste it into a Brightspace discussion topic post, allowing other students to review and discuss it
• Paste it into a Brightspace assignment folder submission that only you and the student can access
• Paste it into any other shared page on OneDrive, OneNote, or Teams

Embed the MediaSpace file into a Brightspace page

Students can use the Insert Stuff button in the Brightspace HTML Editor to select and embed a media file from their MediaSpace account. They can do this in:

• Brightspace discussion topic posts
• Brightspace text assignment folders

Collaborator

Students can assign you or other students to be collaborators on a media file in their MediaSpace account. If you have are assigned to the collaborator role, you could access the file from your own MediaSpace account and review it there. You would also have limited edit access to the file.

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