UNITE Classroom Capture and Media Hosting
Classroom Capture
UNITE offers fee-based high quality classroom capture originating from ten UNITE-enhanced classrooms/lecture halls on the East Bank of the Twin Cities campus in Mechanical Engineering, Keller Hall and Akerman Hall, with capacities ranging from 40 to 88 student seats.
UNITE staffs the technical operations for capture. These events may be streamed live and/or hosted as streaming video archives through UNITE. Clients may also chose to host asynchonous media elsewhere.
UNITE-Enhanced Classrooms
UNITE Classroom Capture is available in these UNITE-enhanced classrooms (click on the links for more room information from the Office of Classroom Management):
- Mechanical Engineering 102 (this link opens in a new window) in-person capacity: 40
- Mechanical Engineering 108 (this link opens in a new window) in-person capacity: 88
- Mechanical Engineering 212 (this link opens in a new window) in-person capacity: 87
- Keller Hall 3-111 (this link opens in a new window) in-person capacity: 68
- Keller Hall 3-115 (this link opens in a new window) in-person capacity: 69
- Keller Hall 3-125 (this link opens in a new window) in-person capacity: 68
- Akerman 319 (this link opens in a new window) in-person capacity: 72
- Akerman 327 (this link opens in a new window) in-person capacity: 32
- Lind L120 (this link opens in a new window) in-person capacity: 46
- Lind L125 (this link opens in a new window) in-person capacity: 46
Some streaming services may also be available in the following non-standard locations, pending availability and equipment compatibility:
- Keller Hall 3-180 (this link opens in a new window) in-person capacity: 130
Notes and Considerations for Classroom Capture:
Captioning:
UNITE does not provide live captioning services. If that is needed, the client will need to contract a third-party vendor which provides the service.
For recordings, UNITE uses Kaltura's auto-captioning tool to generate a separate caption file for videos during the file processing. As this is an automated tool, the captioning will not be accurate and will need to be manually corrected after the videos process - UNITE does not provide this caption correction service. This is required to be in compliance with Federal Law (this link opens in a new window).
Participant Privacy:
If distributing beyond the original workshop participants (repurposing for future courses, placing on a freely accessible web site, etc.), it is best practice for the client to obtain and maintain a signed release form from all lecturers and participants (under the assumption that they might end up with their image and/or voice in the recordings). A template for such a release form approved by the University of Minnesota's General Counsel is available on the University’s Relations website (this link opens in a new window).
Media Hosting Services
UNITE also offers fee-based encoding/hosting services for video and audio streams (live and archived) materials captured in a UNITE-enhanced classroom. Additionally, UNITE can encode/host asynchronous media created/captured outside of a UNITE-enhanced classroom by other units. Hosting of video and audio files includes UNITE technical support for your end users.
To see streaming media hosted by UNITE, simply scroll up this page.
UNITE can also design and host custom web pages for the event and implement a variety of log-in and security options to fit users' needs.
For more information and pricing for UNITE Classroom Capture and Media Hosting, contact UNITE Technical Operations at [email protected] (this link opens in a new window).