Non Registered User Feature Guide
More than Just Video Streaming...
Opening a Window that Connects Your Schools and Communities
The growing integration of all forms of multimedia content is transforming every facet of modern life. Schools and their communities are watching more rich media than ever before, and are doing so on an ever-expanding variety of devices with high-resolution screens and broadband wireless connections. Already, your students are pioneering this brave new world. And their families expect you to not only prepare their children to live in this world, but to be leaders in it.
EduVision Takes You There – Today
More than a powerful video streaming platform, JDL Horizons has developed EduVision as a full-featured communications package that provides any school, association or enterprise with its own IP television broadcast service.
Your Students Are Ready for EduVision
Every minute of every day, hours of new video content are being posted to popular online services. And most of that content is being produced by middle and high school students who go to school every morning, but do their most creative work after school hours. That’s when they create, edit and upload their videos to social networking sites that are typically blocked by school policy. EduVision gives students a new outlet for their creativity while they’re at school – a high-quality media environment in which their work can be showcased to their peers, their families, and their community, but in a controlled setting that demonstrates a commitment to responsible use of cutting-edge technologies.
Your Teachers Are Ready for EduVision
With EduVision, teachers can help their students literally see their world in all its dimensions – and, in doing so, learn to effectively communicate their ideas using the techniques and standards of the digitally driven worlds they will someday take their place in: business, entertainment, communication and government. What’s more, there’s virtually no learning curve, even for the most techno-phobic. EduVision, and the programming created through it, resides on a central offsite data hosting facility with a video content distribution network managed by JDL Horizons. There’s no complex hardware or software to master or purchase, no bandwidth constraints, and technical system administration and maintenance are transparent. Plus, by streaming video either live or on-demand, EduVision integrates seamlessly with professional development seminars and workshops for teachers.
Your School’s Communities Are Ready for EduVision
EduVision’s promise doesn’t stop at a school’s walls. It’s a powerful tool for engaging all of the important constituencies involved in a school district. Schools become online broadcast centers, streaming live and pre-recorded programs to parents, relatives, alumni, public officials and the community at large – even to classroom partners anywhere around the world. EduVision allows three levels of simple and easy-to-use administration: site administrator, channel manager and contributor. This allows for scheduling live events and empowers channel managers to preview and approve all video before it’s published. Because the design was made for educators, nothing goes up through an association or school’s EduVision portal without the approval of the school’s channel managers, a vital form of operating control not available in so many of the popular media outlets on the Internet today.
Are You Ready for EduVision?
EduVision is available for a nominal annual subscription fee, and most schools quickly offset the subscription price through sponsorships. That makes this unique service an asset to a school’s tight budgets, not an expense item. From the most widely popular to the most narrowly scoped, EduVision gives every facet of a school’s activities a chance to be seen heard and appreciated. At the click of a mouse, your programming is instantly available to future users 24/7, whether on school grounds, at work, or in their homes.
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Purpose
This document outlines the features of the Internet Broadcasting System of EduVision.TV.
This system allows authorized Channel Managers, Site Administrators, and Contributor to upload videos that can be used for educational purposes.
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Intended Audience
This guide is for the Non-Registered User who can view the free videos in EduVision.TV video delivery portal.
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Prerequisites
Users should have access to a computer with internet access and pre-assigned user ID and password to access the EduVision.TV site. Contact your Site Administrator for these credentials, or to request an EduVision.TV Subscription, register at www.eduvision.tv/schoolregister
Users should have access to properly formatted video content and associated metadata.
EduVision.TV currently accepts video files in the following formats:
flv, mp4, wmv, mov, avi* & mpg
* - Avi files tend to be quite large. It is recommended this file type be transcoded to the flv format prior to uploading.
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Home Page Features
Figure 1 – Home Page Main Features
- User ID. Displays "Guest" until an authorized user logs in. After login, Authorized User’s name will be displayed.
- "Login" button.Authorized Users click to login here. See Figure 14 for more information.
- Site banner.
- Video Player Window. Displays the default or selected video.
- Video Control Bar. Offers the user control over the Playback. See Figure 2 Video Control Bar for more information.
- Video Title. Displays the video’s title.
- Video Description. Displays information about the video.
- Rating Stars. Displays user ratings on a 1-5 "Star scale". See Figure 3 Five-Star Rating Location for more information.
- Views. Displays the number of time the video was viewed.
- "Share" button- Click to Share a video (Recommend to a friend). See Figure 13 for more information
- "Comment" button- Click to Comment a video. Email the Site Administrator with your comments. See Figure 14 for more information
- Go To Home Page – Click on "visit www.eduvision.tv" button to visit www.eduvision.tv.
- Upload Video. To upload a video, you must have a login else you must get registered. See Figure 17.for more information (Exists if VCC is activated)
- Contact Site Administrator. Click "Contact" button to email the Site Administrator.
- View Live Schedule – Click on "View Live Schedule" button to view the live event schedule on the site.(Exists if Live Event is activated)
- Site Search Tool - Search by channel , Search by Keyword within a channel and E-Z Search. See Figure 6, Figure 7 and Figure 9 for more information.
- Video Sorted Tool – Sort by Most viewed or New Video. See Figure 10.a and Figure 10.b for more information.
- Video Popup – Appears after mouseover the video thumbnail. Displays: Video Title, Description. See Figure 11 for more information.
- Available Video List. Displays the List of approved videos.
- Video List Page Index. Displays the number of pages consisting of various video titles. Clicking the number jumps to that Particular Page.
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Video Control Bar
Figure 2 – Video Control Bar
- "Pause & Play" button. Clicking this toggles between pausing and playing the displayed video.
- "Stop" button. Click the button to stop the video.
- Elapsed Time Indicator. Displays how much of the video has been played.
- Play Progression Indicator. Shows how much of the video has been played in a linear scale. Can be moved forward and backward to jump to different points in the selected video.
- Remaining Time Indicator. Displays the amount of time remaining to play.
- "Closed Captioning" button – Clicking this toggles on and off the closed caption display. If the video has closed captions, they will be displayed once enabled.
- "Full Screen" Button. Allows the viewer to expand the video window to full screen. Pressing this button when in Full screen mode, or pressing the "esc" key, returns to the normal player window.
- Mute Control. Click the "speaker" button to toggle the sound on and off. This does not change the computers audio setting. If the user's computer is muted, this control will not change the system control panel settings.
- Volume Control. Click the "Volume" button to adjust the Speaker volume. This does not change the computers audio volume. If the user's computer is muted, this control will not change the system control panel settings.
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Five-Star Rating Display
Figure 3 – Five-Star Rating Display
When a video is selected, the current average of all ratings for that title will be displayed in a one to five star indicator.
Users can click on the stars to register their own rating of the video content. The next figure shows the rating options.
Figure 4 – Five-Star Rating Location
Click your mouse over the stars to set your rating. The stars turn Yellow when they are "moused over". When the mouse is released, the rating will be recorded. Only one rating is allowed per browser session.
Once the rating is recorded, the user receives the "Thanks for rating" message below their rating!!
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Site Search Tools
Figure 5 – Site Search Tools
In the bottom of the video player Site Search Tools option is present.
These tools allow the user to filter the videos on the site by keyword, channel.
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Search by Channel
Figure 6 – Search by Channel Drop-down Box
- Channel
- Sub-Channels
To search by Channel, click the "Drop Down Box", drag your mouse to the desired Channel.
When you release the mouse, the search for that Channel will be initiated and the results will be displayed below the search tools.
The Sub-Channels are also listed below the respective Channels,so as to display the particular videos of the sub-channels below the search tools.
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Search by Keyword within a Channel
Figure 7 – Search by keyword within a channel
To search by keyword, enter one or more words and click the "Go" button.
If you want to search a specific channel with a keyword, enter your keyword & select the channel.
This will execute the search for the keyword within the channel you have selected.
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Search For Live
Figure 8 – Search for Live
Search for Live:
- Click on "View Live Schedule" golden button to view the live games.
- Select Live Event Schedule in the Channel dropdown to view the live games.
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E-Z Search
Figure 9 – E-Z Search
- Topic name. The number in the () indicates the total number of videos under the topic
- Criteria Name. The number in the () indicates the total number of videos under the Criteria.
- Clicking "Search" button will list the video appropriate to the criteria selected in home page.
- Click "Cancel" button if you don’t want to search any video.
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Video Sorting
Figure 10.a – Sort by Most Viewed
- Sorted by – Most Viewed
- Sorting order is in terms of view count. Basically the videos which has most number of views will listed first
Figure 10.b – Sort by New Videos
- Sorted by – New Videos
- Most Recently uploaded videos will be listed first
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Video List Details
Figure 11 – Video Tooltip
When a user "hovers" the mouse over the thumbnail, the pointer will displays additional information about that video.
- Video Title
- Video Description
When a video is selected, the video details are displayed 0n the right side of the player
Figure 12 – Video List Details
- Video Title
- Video Description
- Current Average Rating
- Total Number of times a particular video was viewed (videos with view count greater than 75 will be displayed)
- Share
- Comment
- Links to eduvision.tv
- Upload video (Exists if VCC is activated)
- "Contact Admin" button –Click on this to Email the Site Administrator
- View live schedule (Exists if Live Event is activated)
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Share – Recommend to a Friend
Figure 13 – Recommend to a Friend
Share Video – Users can send an email containing the link of the video to their friends.
- Enter From email address.
- Enter To email address (Enter Multiple recipient addresses separated by ‘,’. Sample Mail1@mail.com, Mail2@mail.com, Mail3@mail.com ).
- Enter your personalized message.
- Enter your Email address or name.
- Type the Verification code as you see in CAPTCHA image [letters in a distorted picture].
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Comment
Figure 14 – Comment
To Email the Site Administrator with your comments, please fill out the form given, enter your Email address and then click "Send". An Email with your comments will be sent to the Site Administrator and Channel Manager.
- Enter your Personalized message / comments
- Enter your Email address
- Type the Verification code as you see in CAPTCHA image [letters in a distorted picture].
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Login
Figure 15 – Sign In Login Screen
Clicking on the "Login" tab gives administrative personnel access to a variety of back-end functions, each of which will be explained in the pages that follow.
When the "Login" tab is clicked, login screen appears.
Enter your assigned User Name and Password and press "Enter" or click the "Login" button to access the Control Panel.
You can click the "Recover Username or Password" button to recover the username or password associated with your User Name. You must either know your Email ID or User Name to recover the username or password associated with your User Name.
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Recover User Name or Password
Figure 16 – Recover User Name or Password Screen
To recover user name - For the registered user:
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New User Registration
Clicking Login redirects to Login screen.
- If you have already registered at this site you can sign in with the ID you have already created
- If you are a new user , fill the form given below
Figure 17 – User Register Screen
- Enter the First name and Middle name of the User.
- Enter the Last name of the User.
- Enter the password.
- Re-Enter the Password in Confirm password.
- Enter Email Id of the User.
- Enter Phone number of the User.
- Enter Alternate phone number of the User.
- Type the verification code as you see in the CAPTCHA image [letters in a distorted picture]. To get a new verification code Click the "Get new verification code" link.
- Select the check box to accept the terms and conditions given in the "Terms and Conditions" link.
- Click the "Submit" button to save the details or "Cancel" to clear the details. Once the user is registered successfully, it redirects to welcome page.
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Contact JDL Horizons for More Information
If you like what you see in these examples of EduVision.TV, and you’d like to have your own EduVision.TV site for your site, site district or Institution of higher education, contact info@jdlhorizons.com
Figure 18 - Contact JDL Horizons
We look forward to hearing from you soon and adding your institution to this exciting site!!!
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Table of Figures
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