EDUCAUSE Booth #1501 — A new desktop capture system by Sonic Foundry,
Inc. (NASDAQ: SOFO), the trusted leader for video content management and webcasting
solutions, allows faculty, staff and students at University of Florida
to create and share videos, lectures and assignments wherever they are.
The university deployed My
Mediasite campus wide, giving users access to record, upload, manage
and publish their own videos using their laptop’s built-in camera.
Because the tool is backed by Mediasite
Enterprise Video Platform, the content is searchable, secure and
organized in one place.
“The Mediasite Desktop Recorder in My Mediasite is easier for us to
maintain than other software-based options. The app is just so easy to
use, I know even our most tech-challenged staff will quickly adopt it.
And because it’s a web client, our user-generated content will
automatically upload to Mediasite,” said Brian Smith, UF’s IT
specialist. “The analytics of My Mediasite was a big selling point so
faculty can easily keep track of who is watching their lectures and how
much.”
The presentations will be closed captioned, and students can search
video for keywords with My Mediasite’s powerful optical character
recognition that automatically indexes slide text.
The university began implementing My Mediasite into classrooms this
semester and in the next few months plans to put it in the hands of
hundreds of people on campus. Currently the university has 16,000
presentations on its server, and Smith said My Mediasite will lead to
even more content being generated at an even faster pace. To date the
amount of Mediasite video increases nearly 85% each year, and views grow
330% year over year.
University of Florida has used Mediasite since 2004 to capture what’s
happening in lecture halls, classrooms and special events on campus,
such as homecoming parades, senate meetings, commencements, alumni
events, presidential search sessions, psychiatry grand rounds and much
more. Those recordings are available to students live and on-demand on
their desktops and mobile devices.
“Before Mediasite, our students watched lectures. Now, they experience
lectures,” Smith said. “Mediasite’s ability to clearly display content
by separating it from video in a rich media format is one of the
innovative features that have helped to improve academic video on our
campus.”
Learn more about UF’s Mediasite story at www.sonicfoundry.com/UF.
“Student demand is pushing video-based online learning to the top of
institutions’ technology plans. By introducing My Mediasite, University
of Florida is making it even easier for students, faculty and staff to
communicate and learn via academic video, regardless of time and
location,” said Gary Weis, chief executive officer of Sonic Foundry.
Trusted by 1,200 colleges and universities, the patented Mediasite
webcasting and video content management system quickly and
cost-effectively automates the capture, management, delivery and search
of live and on-demand videos and rich media.
About Sonic Foundry®, Inc.
Sonic Foundry (NASDAQ: SOFO) is the trusted market leader for enterprise
webcasting solutions, providing video
content management and distribution for education, business and
government. Powered by the patented Mediasite
webcasting platform and webcast
services of Mediasite Events, the company empowers people to advance
how they share knowledge online, using video webcasts to bridge time and
distance, enhance learning outcomes and improve performance.
Product and service names mentioned herein are the trademarks of
Sonic Foundry, Inc. or their respective owners.
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