Canvas & Technology Support

This is a Mediasite Admins only feature

PLEASE NOTE: Schedules are synced with the recorder every hour. To make sure your schedule was pushed to the recorder, make sure to book a schedule at least 2 hours in advance.

The folders listed in the screenshots below may be different, depending on your privileges.  

DO NOT SKIP A STEP, AS THIS CAN RESULT IN THE LECTURE NOT BEING RECORDED. 

MINIMUM INFORMATION REQUIRED

This is minimum information required for a successful recording:

Under the Information tab

Title, Presenter, Recurrences (check that the proper date, time and duration is set)

Under the Schedule Options tab

Recorder Operation is set to Create, open, start and stop recording, Recorder is set to the correct Recorder Name.

STEP 1

Login into the Mediasite Management Portal (https://unthsc.mediasite.com/mediasite/manage) and navigate to the folder you wish the recorded video to be placed in

STEP 2

Click on the Add New button and Schedule

STEP 3

Change the default template but clicking Change Template and selecting Content - Video High Res.

A pop-up dialog box will appear, with the message "Switching templates will overwrite all data except for the Title, Description, Tags, Recorder Operation, and Folder fields. Do you wish to continue?"

Click Ok

At the INFORMATION tab, enter the Title for this recording and optionally a Description

STEP 4

At the INFORMATION tab, click on the Add New or Existing Presenters button to add the names of the presenter or presenters

Enter the name of the presenter in the Search box. If the presenter doesn't exist, you can add him/her by clicking the Add New button

STEP 5

At the INFORMATION tab, click on the Add Module button, to add the recorded presentation to the Mediasite section in Canvas. You can skip this step if you only wish to embed this presentation into a Canvas Page

Enter the Course ID in the Search box and press enter

STEP 6

At the SCHEDULE OPTIONS tab, set the presentation naming to {Name} {Record Date}  

STEP 7

At the SCHEDULE OPTIONS tab, under the Recorder Operation, set the recorder from Manually generate presentations to Create, open, start and stop recording

STEP 8

At the SCHEDULE OPTIONS tab, under the Recorder Operation, click on the Please Select a Recorder button. In the Search box, type in the recorder's name. Alternatively, you can click More and select the recorder using your mouse.

STEP 9

At the top right-hand side, click on the Add Reoccurrence button to set the date(s) and time(s) you wish to record on

STEP 10

Scheduling a Repeated Recording. If you wish to add a One Time recording, please skip to STEP 11

Enter the Start Date and Start Time

Enter an End Time

Under Duration, set the duration of this recording

You can set the repeats to One Time Only, Daily, Weekly, Monthy or Yearly

On the Run on Days, set the days of the week you wish to run this schedule

You can also set the Number of weeks between runs

When you have entered all the information, press the Save button and continue to STEP 12

STEP 11

Scheduling a One Time recording. Skip this step if you have already have completed STEP 10

Set the Repeats to One Time Only

Enter the Start Date and Start Time

Under Duration, set the duration of this recording

When you have entered all the information, press the Save button

STEP 12

Press the Save button to save this schedule. A schedule and an empty presentation will be created in the current working folder you selected in step 1. 

A schedule will automatically synchronized EVERY HOUR with the recorders. If this schedule is programmed within an hour of the starting time, you can manually synchronize the schedule. This KB article will explain how to manually synchronize a schedule.