Using Video - Why & How

Uploading Ensemble Lecture Capture Video

To upload a video from Ensemble to your COTROnline Course

Ensemble is where your video captures will be ‘stored’ until as an Instructor, you upload them to your COTROnline (Moodle) course.

Keep in mind that once you delete a video capture from Ensemble it is gone forever; there is no way to get it back.

If you want to have long term access to a recording, save a copy to Kaltura. Please contact the COTROnline Help Desk if you need help doing this.

Steps for uploading to your course:

Go to the Ensemble website https://media.cotr.bc.ca/app/default.aspx (Suggest you bookmark this site)
Log in with your ENSEMBLE username and password
(Contact Nathon Hall, hall@cotr.bc.ca or local 3296 for your USERNAME and PASSWORD)
Once you are successfully logged in, you should see your first name in the upper right corner.
You will see a list of your video recordings once you are in.
It should say ‘not published’ under the videos once they are there.
GOAL: You need to get these changed from not published to published then moved into Moodle!
Once you are in ENSEMBLE and see your video images.
Click ‘publish’ once beside the first video you want to move over to COTROnline (www.cotronline.ca). It will be displayed between the edit and and delete button. DO NOT DELETE. You want to publish the video. It will take you to a new page.
Click ‘publish’ again. You will see a single green colored ‘publish’ button in the bottom right corner. Click that button.
Next you click the ‘permalink’ button. (You will find that beside the video after the download and embed link) It takes you to a new page that displays the link in a box at the top of the page.
Select and copy the URL from the box and then paste it into a URL where you want it in your COTROnline (Moodle) course.
Open COTROnline (Moodle) to your course and where you want to post the video.
Click Add a URL resource.
The next steps are the same as you did under the previous system.
In the URL resource external link box, paste the link.
Name the resource.
Save.

Unknown Library

You encounter ‘Unknown’ library on our lecture recording server, https:\\media.cotr.bc.ca, when a recording doesn’t match a class rule, ends up in the Unknown Library.

You can copy a file from the Unknown Library to your own library, rename it, and then it is yours.

This is handy if you want to record a ‘spur of the moment’ video without an irritating delay waiting for Media Services to process it for you.

Important rules for the Unknown (library):

Don’t leave your recording there. If we (adminstrators) see a recording that’s several weeks old, it means nobody wants it and w will remove it when we purge the library periodically.
Don’t publish a recording from the Unknown library. Your link on Moodle will be useless after a purge.
Don’t ‘share’ a recording from the Unknown library. When the original file is gone, a shared link is broken.
DO copy the recording to your own library. This creates an entirely new file under your exclusive control. If it is a recording you want long term access to, save a copy to Kaltura. Please contact the COTROnline Help Desk if you need help doing this.
DO delete your recordings from Unknown once you’re sure you have a copy.

NOTE: All instructors have access to the Unknown library. They can view/edit/delete/copy any recordings within.

To save a unscheduled recording located in the Unknown Library

Find your recording soon after creating it
Copy it to your own library
Delete it from the Unknown Library.

If you have questions about how this works or encounter problems, please contact:

Nathon Hall, Media Services Supervisor

Office: 250.489.8296 Cell: 250.421.0108

hall@cotr.bc.ca