Lumina & Brightspace Video Note

Introduction

High quality academic video plays a critical role in hybrid or online courses. It not only can replace face-to-face lecture, but also give students much more flexibility to learn anytime, anywhere.

Academic Design and Technology Team provides academic video tools & services to all Nicolet instructors and students. The service includes training and guidance on:

Creating course video
Uploading videos to the video platform
Closed captioning course video

For creating videos for teaching and learning purpose, we recommend two tools:

Lumina Video Platform (previously named Yuja)
Video Note, embedded feature in Brightpsace

Lumina Video Platform

Lumina video platform covers all essential needs to organize, create, upload, edit, publish, and share media content, such as live streams and on-demand videos with internal and external users. It can also engage students with the video content easily, such as through conversation and embedded quizzes. Students can also use this tool within Brightspace from the course navigation bar.

Here is a an overview video of Lumina (covering the creating, uploading, editing and sharing of videos) :

More Lumina Resources for Faculty and Staff:

Login from Brightspace Navigation Bar-'Toolbox' tab or 'Employees' tab from Nicolet College Website
Quick Start for Instructors & Content Creators
Lumina Training Recordings for faculty and students: Yuja- Shared Folders- Yuja Training Videos

More Lumina Resources for Students:

Quick Start for Students & Viewers
Video Tutorial: How to Record Video in Lumina for Students
Video Tutorial: How to Add Video to Brightspace Assignment for Students

Video Note in Brightspace

Video Note is an easy to use tool embedded in Brightspace allowing instructors and students to create video or audio and attach to assignment, discussion board, announcement, email and feedback. This is a great tool to add social interaction for your course, as students are definitely prefer to watch instructor speaking to them instead of reading a page.

Here is a quick video about how to use Video Note in Brightspace:

Brightspace Video Note Tutorial For Instructors

Create and insert a video note in Brightspace Editor

You can use Video Note in a number of places throughout Brightspace Learning Environment, including: Content, Discussions, Activity Feed, and even when grading and providing feedback to learners.

Note: The ability to add video notes is controlled by a permission set by your administrator. If you do not see the Add Video Note option, you do not have the required permission.

From Content, click Upload/Create and select Create a File.
Click Insert Stuff.
Click Add Video Note.
To record your message, click New Recording.
To finalize your message, click Stop Recording.
Click Next.
Enter a Title, Description, and select the Audio Language.
To generate captions automatically, select Automatically generate captions from audio.
Click Next.
Click Insert.

Helpful Tips to create an instructional videos:

Always ask yourself why are you making the video? What do you want students get out of it?
The research finds that the video under 10 minutes get viewed most by students.
Remember to add closed caption to each video. It is required by law and other federal policy.

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