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Mediasite Desktop Recorder support ends June 30, switch to Mosaic

Posted on by Christine Doucette

mediasite logoAs originally announced in January, support for the Mediasite Desktop Recorder (MDR) software will end on June 30. Mediasite users are encouraged to instead use the free MDR replacement called Mediasite Mosaic.

Mosaic can capture your computer screen, webcam, and microphone into a Mediasite presentation. Additionally, it can import and upload other existing videos stored on your computer to Mediasite and allow you to preview your captures before uploading, among other useful features. Mosaic is available for free inside the MyMediasite web portal.

The aging Mediasite Desktop Recorder software is already operating under a limited support status and is incapable of running on the current macOS version. After June 30, manufacturer and university support for the product will cease. Sonic Foundry, the company responsible for Mediasite, has confirmed Mediasite Desktop Recorder will not work with a future release of the Mediasite platform. Continue reading “Mediasite Desktop Recorder support ends June 30, switch to Mosaic” →

Introducing Mediasite Mosaic

Posted on by Academic and Student Technology

Use Mediasite Mosaic to create, import, and upload video content into Mediasite. Available for Windows and macOS, Mediasite Mosaic is the modern replacement for Mediasite Desktop Recorder (MDR).

Like the Mediasite Desktop Recorder software it replaces, you can use this new tool to easily record any combination of your computer’s desktop, microphone, and webcam. But Mediasite Mosaic can do more: Continue reading “Introducing Mediasite Mosaic” →

Adobe Flash Player end-of-life Dec. 31

Posted on by Academic and Student Technology

In July of 2017, Adobe announced that it would stop distributing and updating Flash Player after December 31, 2020. Adobe decided to end support for Flash Player due to the diminished usage of the technology.

Instructors who have Flash-based content in their courses will want to convert the content to a more secure option such as HTML5. With the demise of the Flash Player, students will no longer be able to view your Flash-based content safely.

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Oct. 26: Getting Started w/ ETDR Templates

Posted on by Shalin Hai-Jew

""Are you a master’s or doctoral student? If so, it is likely that you will be conducting research as part of your studies. At some point, you may be writing a thesis, report, or dissertation to record your work to share with the profession and the world. K-State has made available templates (in MS Word and LaTeX) for students to use, in order to ensure that they include all required information in the proper formatting. “Getting Started with ETDR Templates” is an online training on Zoom from 1-2:30 p.m., Monday, Oct. 26.  

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Sept. 25: Intro to Adobe Photoshop

Posted on by Shalin Hai-Jew

Are you a graduate student who uses digital imagery (photos, data visualizations, and others) in a master’s thesis, master’s report, or doctoral dissertation (in an ETDR application)? Are you a faculty or staff member who integrates photographs into slideshows, imageset, or videos?

“Intro to Adobe Photoshop” is scheduled 1:30-3:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 25, on Zoom at this URL.  This session introduces Adobe Photoshop as the leading software for editing and creating raster images (although it can output vector ones, too). This session will introduce the general graphical user interface (GUI) for this software. Then, it covers some basic uses and shows some walk-throughs of work sequences.

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New search feature added to the IT website

Posted on by Christine Doucette

Need to reset your password? Do you want to learn more about Microsoft Teams? Search for all the IT answers you need on the updated IT website.

A new search feature has been added to the IT website just in time for the fall semester. Type in keywords in the search box, and you can easily search for knowledge base articles, services, and request forms.

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Aug. 14: Advanced NVivo 12 Plus

Posted on by Shalin Hai-Jew

NVIVO“Advanced NVivo 12 Plus/NVivo” is a follow-up presentation from the “Introduction to NVivo 12 Plus/NVivo” offered earlier this term. This training will be held 1:30-3:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 14, online via Zoom.  (The link will not be live until the event.)

This presentation will address the following:

  • Any extant questions from the basic introduction of NVivo 12 Plus
  • How to set up qualitative data to be explored and queried
  • How to use the software on interview, survey, focus group, and similar data
  • How to query the collected data in an NVivo project (word frequency counts, text searches, matrix coding queries, matrix queries, proximity text searches, and other forms of text parsing)
  • How to create data visualizations (word trees, word clouds, dendrograms, ring lattice graphs, sociograms, and others) (for analysis and presentations)
  • How to conduct four types of auto-coding (by extracted themes and subthemes, by sentiment analysis, by structured data, and by supervised machine learning based on existing human coding)
  • How to set up a qualitative cross-tabulation analysis
  • How to output a basic report (including a custom codebook)

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July 17: Tapping Social Media with NCapture and NVivo

Posted on by Shalin Hai-Jew

“Tapping Social Media Data with NCapture and NVivo” will be offered 1:30-3:30 p.m. Friday, July 17, on Zoom. This presentation provides an overview of the NCapture browser add-on (to Google Chrome and Microsoft IE) as a tool for extracting information from social media platforms and will explore how the extracted data is analyzed using NVivo 12 Plus, a qualitative and mixed methods data analysis tool. (The NVivo for Mac now enables this functionality as well.)

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July 3: Intro to NVivo 12 Plus

Posted on by Shalin Hai-Jew

NVIVOAn “Intro to NVivo 12 Plus” training is scheduled from 1:30-3:30 p.m. Friday, July 3, for all faculty, graduate students, and staff who may be using this qualitative (and mixed methods, multimethods) data analysis tool.  This session will occur on Zoom.

This presentation, which covers NVivo 12 Plus / NVivo (newest) basics, will address the following:

  • The basic parts of the NVivo 12 Plus interface
  • How to start and structure a research project (including a team project)
  • How to set up a project around a base language (Chinese/PRC, English/US, English/UK, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese/Brazil, and Spanish
  • How to ingest various multimedia file types (and curate heterogeneous and semi-structured digital data and digitized contents)
  • How to ingest some social media contents
  • How to begin manual and/or automated coding various media file types
  • How to run data queries in the tool and analyze resulting data visualizations (word clouds, word trees, matrices, geographical maps, bar charts, and others)
  • How to back up the .nvp / .nvpx project file

Continue reading “July 3: Intro to NVivo 12 Plus” →

On-Demand Webinar: Managing Mediasite Content Storage

Posted on by Christine Doucette

As this wild spring semester draws to a close, now is an excellent time to evaluate the content you have uploaded to Mediasite and remove presentations you no longer intend to use. A new on-demand Mediasite webinar, Managing Content Storage, will guide you through the process of reviewing a content storage report, archiving presentations into an offline format, and deleting unneeded or archived Mediasite content. Continue reading “On-Demand Webinar: Managing Mediasite Content Storage” →