Oncourse CL Podcasts: Overview

What it does

The Podcasts tool allows site leaders to store and distribute multimedia content to site participants. Participants may download materials manually or via an RSS feed. Content can take many different forms, including audio lectures, video presentations, and slideshow presentations.

Key concepts

Subscription: Site participants can download podcasts individually or subscribe to an RSS feed, which allows podcasts to be downloaded automatically to a podcatcher.

File types: Several different file types are supported within a podcast, including .mp3, .mp4, and .ppt.

Adding the Podcasts tool: You can add the Podcasts tool to your site using Site Setup. For instructions, see Adding, editing, or removing tools.

Things to consider

• You can download and view or listen to podcasts on most computers with podcatcher software. You do not need to own an iPod to consume podcasts.
  
  
• For Indiana University students, faculty, and staff, podcatcher software is available for download free of charge via IUware Online.
  
  
• Podcasts that you post on your site are stored in Resources.

  The quota for a course site or project site is 1GB. You can upload files up to 500MB in the Podcasts tool. Note that the maximum file size is 200MB in other tools (e.g., Resources); to upload a larger file, you must use the Podcasts tool (for files up to 500MB) or WebDAV. To request a larger quota for your site, see What are the default disk quotas for UITS accounts, and how do I request an increase?

• For more information on the various podcasting options at IU, see Summary comparison of IU podcasting services or Podcasting.

Help documentation

For help documentation about the Podcasts tool, see Oncourse CL Podcasts: Help contents.