Multimedia
Texas A&M University provides two learning technologies to help you integrate large files and multimedia assets; and create collaborative spaces to enhance the student experience within your course.
Adding files, media, and other external resources to cloud-based storage options, including Google Drive, Microsoft Office 365, and Mediasite, can benefit the student experience in many ways. Using cloud-storage solutions offers more flexibility for how and when students access course resources. This allows students to concentrate more on the resources offered to enhance learning rather than the technical issues that may become barriers to access.
Storage Capacity at a Glance
Canvas
Course file quota: 1GB
Mediasite
2 GB
Google Drive
Microsoft Office 365
5 TB
Teaching and Learning
Benefits for Using Mediasite and Google Drive for Teaching and Learning:
Teaching
- Share large files with students
- Add multimedia content such as images and videos to course content pages, quizzes, and assignments
- Embed and link files through the Rich Content Editor (Canvas)
Learning
- Designate a space for students to create, collaborate, and organize files and folders
- Enhance student efficiencies by providing access to course materials without the need to download
- Ensuring a successful student experience leads to a better instructor experience
Mediasite
Mediasite is Texas A&M University’s standardized streaming media system that provides either public or private access to video and audio content. Mediasite integrates with Canvas.The primary objective of the project is to replace the VPR-IT’s MediaMatrix system, which will be decommissioned, with Mediasite for all relevant existing and future academic streaming media content.
