- Panopto status update
- Recap of original charge and proposal, history of project including Media Core process and funding. General consensus that Pantopo isn’t perfect but is pretty good, and definitely the best of all available options. The goal is to make a proposal for FY18 by January. Current Panopto contract runs through June.
- Q:Will legacy streaming platforms, MiddMedia, archived items be a part of this process?
- A:Not during this initial phase; with the decline in available data space, eventually we’ll need to examine those assets.
- Rate of video storage has increased x20.
- Most Panopto views are administrative, with some faculty using it for courses as well.
- Students don’t have to leave Canvas to view videos in Panopto, but do have to log in again. Panopto creates a new user using single sign-on credentials. A Panopto viewer window embedded in Canvas will popup a login window; the issue is with what Canvas passes to Panopto. This issue is on Panopto’s development timeline, tentatively for late fall or winter. We’re meeting with them as well, working on code.
- Embedding in WordPress doesn’t work, trying to write some code for that. We should be able to turn on a Panopto plugin for WordPress.
- Some faculty are using Panopto at MIIS, have also used the webcasting feature successfully, including interactive and note-taking features. Sharing videos through a link has resulted in a good user experience. This is the legacy of Panopto as a lecture capture platform; perhaps we should talk about that while we’re talking about video conferencing. Should remember that Panopto charged based on views.
- Q:Heather has asked whether we can embed Panopto on Sharepoint pages
- A: not at present.
- Thoughts on recent training? Seems pretty straightforward. We have two hours of training left, most topics are also available through support documentation and video.
- Windows version of Panopto software has many more features than the Mac version (e.g., the focus feature); we may get questions related to that difference.
- Panopto rep did send statistics on first training session; the analytics are very thorough with very specific usage info. Panopto may have applications for original research.
- Panopto is currently not embeddable in Drupal because of the way Drupal filters code, but other schools have solved this issue; may take some work to make it possible.
- Searchability is limited to English only, users will need to upload a caption file for other languages. Users can also supply keywords to make videos more searchable.
- Q: If we do additional training, can we focus on other features?
- A: Potential for more creative uses than simply streaming video.
- Lecture capture is a non-starter at Middlebury; faculty don’t want it and the costs were prohibitive. MIIS can still use it that way. May be useful for making guest speakers/special lecturers available to students abroad.
- Part of the proposal to continue Panopto would be a 3-5 year commitment to encourage user investment in the platform.
- Media workload at MIIS is increasing, so we’re looking to Panopto as a possible assist in that regard. The goal is for self-service, self-empowerment. Lots of need to cover recurring classes, to record and make available later, which has been difficult to staff and organize. There may be some capacity to use Panopto to automate some of that process, but it would require upgrading a space to achieve it.
- Feedback on Panopto has been generally good, and good enough to go forward.
Category Archives: In-progress Projects
ACTT Meetings ACTT In-progress Project Presentation for Web Conferencing Service
Tuesday, November 8, from 3-4pm
LIB 105A or Zoom room https://middpilot.zoom.us/j/846802386
The new ACT Team process includes in-progress project presentations. These presentations are meant to inform the community about how things are going, what has been done and what still needs to be done, what is going well and what are the challenges.
In this meeting we will talk about the Web Conferencing Service project.
- Share what has been done, so far.
- The results of the round-robin, what services were removed from consideration as a result
- Current use of services under consideration.
- Discuss what still needs to be done.
In-progress project presentations are open meetings, anyone may attend.
ACTT In-progress Project Presentation for Panopto Pilot
Tuesday, November 1, from 3-4pm
LIB 105A or Zoom room https://middpilot.zoom.us/j/846802386
The new ACT Team process includes in-progress project presentations. These presentations are meant to inform the community about how things are going, what has been done and what still needs to be done, what is going well and what are the challenges.
In this meeting we will talk about the video streaming service and the Panopto Pilot.
- Review the training that occurred on 10/25
- Share what has been done, so far.
- Discuss what still needs to be done.
In-progress project presentations are open meetings, anyone may attend.
Notes for Google Apps and OneDrive Project Presentation
- Cloud Services: Google and Microsoft
- Goal: provide better (cloud-based) services to the community
- Infrastructure
- Storage
- Available from anywhere
- Private, secure, encrypted
- Scales to demand
- Access to info
- Collaboration and sharing
- Familiar and consistent
- Storage
- Why are we doing this?
- Better consume our resources
- Home directories on middfiles are 25TB
- Grows a half TB a month
- Enhance service offerings
- Available anywhere on most any device
- Scalable and efficient use of eresources
- Cost effective
- Highly available
- On demand automatic provisioning
- Better consume our resources
- What we can provide
- Google apps for edu
- No longer in beta!
- Online collaboration
- Drive
- 365
- Online collaboration suite – word, excel
- Software distribution (local office install)
- Onedrive
- More nuanced levels of licensing and access – differences between MIIS and Midd College, working through those issues
- Email in the cloud!
- Fully hosted or hybrid model
- Google apps for edu
- Where we are now
- Groundwork has been laid
- All midd users automatically have GAfE account
- Including access to apps, drive, and youtube
- All midd users automatically have an O365 account
- College students can install local copies of Office through O365
- Only for residential students, MIIS students can access cloud-based Office suite
- Everyone has accounts but they don’t have access yet
- College students can install local copies of Office through O365
- All active directory groups exist in both GAfE and O365
- Still to come
- A series of projects as opposed to one big unveiling
- Documentation and education project
- Microsoft’s online collaboration apps
- OneDrive and GoogleDrive
- Home use software distribution Faculty/Staff
- Everyone currently has access to Google Apps (but most people don’t know)
- Everyone does not currently have access to OneDrive – still to come
- Cloud-based email still to come
- A series of projects as opposed to one big unveiling
- Decisions that still need to be made
- Which service do we recommend to people?
- How do different groups collaborate effectively?
- Do professors choose one or the other?
- Will students need access to both?
- Others?
Questions
- Do we want to offer the same level of support for both or favor one?
- One platform may be better for certain uses than the other
- We like the idea of a default/one that is better supported
- Any support requests re: Google to date?
- A few calendar items, nothing major
- Most people are using web interface
- I’m a student with a google account that I use for school work – I graduate and move on. How do I transition my work to my private account? (Bill)
- No fee, but there will be some hoops/procedures to go through
- I’m a student with a Microsoft account that I use for school work – I graduate and move on. How do I transition my work to my private account? (Bill)
- Currently more complicated than Google
- Everything that is cloud-delivered is free
- Do we have an inventory of what’s been turned on by Google Admin? (Joe)
- Yes, a list can be shared
- When you’re logged in you can see a list of some applications, but not all of them
- How does a faculty member associate Google resources with a course?
- A Course Hub integration would be helpful here; it’s currently tough to find the right group in Google
- Create the resource, connect with the correct student group
- With OneDrive, groups can own files/documents – more ownership-based management than Google-drive
- If group owns documentation, data management is simpler from an administrative perspective. Group membership should be able to shift seamlessly
- This is a nuance we’ll have to figure out between Google and OneDrive
- A Course Hub integration would be helpful here; it’s currently tough to find the right group in Google
- Monterey and Midd campuses have the exact same access to this functionality? (Bill)
- Yes, only difference is residential component for the College (Office installs)
- This is an example of “big M” Middlebury thinking
- For a guest lecturer or auditor, they could be added to a Google folder not a group?
- Another nuance that needs to be explored/determination needs to be made about what to recommend to faculty
- In terms of announcements/messaging/role out, does Course Hub integration need to be in place first?
- We need to have nuances largely figured out before we make an announcement
- So what’s the rollout timeframe?
- Timeline needs to include various project teams
- Probably not reality to have ready for fall 2016 roll out
- Do we need to roll both platforms out at the same time?
- It would behoove us to roll out the recommended platform first
- We need to give faculty clear instructions about procedure change, as they are not accustomed to provisioning folders themselves (Joe)
- Now they will need a folder with the appropriate permissions
- What’s the motivation for having both services?
- We have to have some of each. Google is already pretty ubiquitous in usage across Middlebury. We have to roll out Microsoft because of software distribution. Or do we? We can control what Microsoft functionality is available to avoid too much overlap with Google.
- Encryption/security implications – Microsoft is superior to Google in this respect
- Google doesn’t work in China – Jeff Cason currently testing OneDrive in China
- A potential differentiation could be
- Academic – Google. Administrative – Microsoft.
- In reality this won’t happen
- Academic – Google. Administrative – Microsoft.
- While Microsoft is in beta, the move to single sign on for everyone seems like a big step (Bob)
- MIIS users having to sign on with @middlebury.edu account
- We want to promote access to Google Apps – it would be disappointing if we couldn’t make an official announcement to the MIIS campus this fall even if the Course Hub integration is not in place.
- What happens when students graduate? Some of our students are only here for a year, some do Peace Corps during their degree – leave campus for 2 years and come back.
- How do the nuances of those different user needs get managed? We need an exit strategy.
- Exit strategy for individuals and Middlebury as a whole is important.
- Where is this project in terms of the ACTT life cycle? (Bob)
- Should OneDrive be rolled out the same way Google Apps was?
- Resource constraints
- Should OneDrive be rolled out the same way Google Apps was?
- Is there a downside to MIIS announcing Google Apps rollout to campus? (Bob)
- When Microsoft is rolled out, there may be an inordinate number of help desk tickets from people who want to migrate content from Google to Microsoft
- It depends on when OneDrive becomes available
- Timelines are not currently known, several different project teams
- 2,000 Google Apps accounts active before syncing took place
- There was already a OneDrive instance at MIIS that was being used by 40 people – no administrator
- There’s nothing stopping any Middlebury user from using Google Apps (they just don’t know about it)
- We are currently not fully committing or walking away from either
ACTT In-Progress Project Presentation for GoogleApps for Edu and OneDrive
[This meeting was rescheduled from May 17th to May 31st.]
Tuesday, May 31st from 3-4pm
LIB 105A or Polycom 712833
The new ACT Team process includes in-progress project presentations. These presentations are meant to inform the community about how things are going, what has been done and what still needs to be done, what is going well and what are the challenges.
Agenda
In this meeting we will look at the GoogleApps for Edu and OneDrive projects.
In-progress project presentations are open meetings, anyone may attend. Please feel free to share the invitation with anyone you feel is interested in the topics discussed.
ACTT In-Progress Project Presentation for GoogleApps for Edu and OneDrive
Tuesday, May 17th from 3-4pm
LIB 105A or Polycom 712833
The new ACT Team process includes in-progress project presentations. These presentations are meant to inform the community about how things are going, what has been done and what still needs to be done, what is going well and what are the challenges.
Agenda
In this meeting we will look at the GoogleApps for Edu and OneDrive projects.
In-progress project presentations are open meetings, anyone may attend. Please feel free to share the invitation with anyone you feel is interested in the topics discussed.
ACTT In-Progress Project Presentation Video Streaming Service
Tuesday, May 10th from 3-4pm
LIB 105A or Polycom 712833
The new ACT Team process includes in-progress project presentations. These presentations are meant to inform the community about how things are going, what has been done and what still needs to be done, what is going well and what are the challenges.
Agenda
In this meeting we will look at the Video Streaming Service project.
In-progress project presentations are open meetings, anyone may attend. Please feel free to share the invitation with anyone you feel is interested in the topics discussed.