Your My Media page lists the media that you created. In addition to all normal interactions with media, asdescribed in Interacting with Media when you open a media page, you can:
Edit media
Select a thumbnail
Create a Clip
Trim a Video
Upload and manage captions
Publish media items
Disable or close comments
Faculty may also contribute media to the Faculty Repository. My Media is accessed from the My Institutiontab.
To edit media
On your My Media page, click Edit for the media you want to edit.
In the Edit Media window, you can:
Edit information about the media.
Choose clipping options and enable or disable comments
Upload and manage your closed caption files for the media.
Select a frame to use as the media thumbnail, such as when the media is included in a
gallery.
Trim your video.
There are three options to select a thumbnail for your content:
Upload a thumbnail from your desktop and use it as the default thumbnail.
Use the player to select the frame you want to use as your default thumbnail and then click on theCapture button.
Select one thumbnail from ten automatically generated thumbnails of the selected video and set itas the default thumbnail.
To upload a thumbnail from your desktop
Select My Media and then click Edit next to the entry you want to add a thumbnail to.
In the Edit Media window select the Thumbnails tab.
Click Upload Thumbnail.
Upload a file from your desktop and click Open.
To grab a frame from the content as a thumbnail
Select My Media and then click Edit next to the entry you want to add a thumbnail to.
In the Edit Media window select the Thumbnails tab.
Select the Thumbnails tab and click Play.
Click Capture at the frame that you want to use as a thumbnail.The captured frame is saved automatically and used for the thumbnail.
To select an automatically generated thumbnails
Select My Media and then click Edit next to the entry you want to add a thumbnail to.
In the Edit Media window select the Thumbnails tab.
Click Automatically Generate.
When clipping is enabled on the account and for the specific media, you can create clips from existingvideos. Each clip becomes its own media entry. The clipping tool enables you to edit your videos visuallyor by setting the start time and end time of your clip.
Clipping creates a new entry from an existing entry and allows you to specify the start and end time for thenew entry. For example you can clip an entry that can be used to create a 2 minute intro video to a longlecture, or clip part of an entry, such as homework assignments. You can also clip a long lecture to severalshorter clips divided by subjects.
Entries can be clipped by the media entry owner in My Media and by other users in a course MediaGallery, according to the media and course settings.
To create a video clip in My Media
Select My Media and then click Edit next to the entry you want to use to create a clip.
In the Edit Media window select Create Clip.
Use the trimming timeline or enter exact start and end times.
Press Play and click Set Starting Point of the video clip or alternatively, select the Start Time.
Select Set Ending Point as the end point of the video clip, or alternatively select the End Time.
Click Create Clip.The clipped content appears in My Media as a new entry.
Note: To allow other users to create clips of a video entry, go to the entry Edit Page in My Media andunder Options > Clipping check the "Everyone" checkbox.
You can trim out parts of video from the Edit Media page. The trimming tool enables you to edit yourvideos visually by setting the start time and end time of your media.
Sometimes, you may want to trim the start and/or end of a video to remove redundant parts. Trimming isperformed on the source media, modifying that video permanently.
To trim a media entry
Select My Media and then click Edit next to the entry you want to trim,
In the Edit Media window select the Trim Video tab.
Use the trimming timeline or enter exact start and end times.
Press Play and click Set Starting Point of the video clip or alternatively, select the start time.
Select Set Ending Point as the end point of the video clip, or alternatively select the end time.
Click Trim video.The trimmed video appears in My Media.
Trimming is only available to the owner of the video and is only accessible in My Media.
By default, all media that you upload is private. You can access private media on your My Media page.
You can publish media from your My Media page:
To multiple Media Galleries
To the Faculty Repository
Only when file conversion is complete and the media is not waiting for moderation
To publish one or more media items
1. On your My Media page, check the media items you want to publish and select Publish from theActions menu.
The publish window is displayed.
2. Click Publish and then check the courses where you want to publish the content to. CheckShared Repository if you want to publish your content to the shared repository.
3. Click Save.
When the media is published, a notification is displayed at top of the page and the media will beavailable in the Media Galleries you selected and or the Shared repository if selected.If the target Media Gallery is moderated by a Teacher, the media should appear as Pending in MyMedia until the Teacher approves the content. A Teacher may reject the media from beingincluded in the Media Gallery. In this case, the media appears as Rejected in My Media. If thetarget Media Gallery is not moderated, no label will appear for the media, indicating that the mediais published.
Students may have their uploaded content pending until approved by their teachers.
Thumbnail status labels are:
Private entry - notpublished to any MediaGallery
Pending - published toone or more MediaGalleries and waitingfor approval
Rejected - published toone or more MediaGalleries but wasrejected
Published (no label) - appears in at least oneMedia Gallery
For each of your media items, you can:
Disable the comment feature.
Prevent additional comments.
To disable comments on a media item
On your My Media page click Edit for the video you want to edit.
Select the Options tab and select the Disable comments for this media checkbox.
To prevent additional comments on a media item
On your My Media page click Edit next to the video you want to edit.
Open the Options tab and select the Close discussion checkbox.
On the Comments tab of the media page, Discussion is closed is displayed and the "Add aComment" text box is not displayed.