Relevant to: faculty, staff, and students
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Introduction
LEARNscape is an easy to use, robust media platform allowing you to upload, record, and edit videos. It is available to all SUNY Empire students, faculty, and staff. It is safely contained within SUNY Empire, so you can think of it as our university's own YouTube. LEARNscape is also integrated with Brightspace, so creating and sharing video content has never been easier.
LEARNscape vs. LEARNscape in Brightspace
When to Use LEARNscape
LEARNscape is a public facing media site that is accessed at learn.sunyempire.edu using your SUNY Empire email and password to log in. When creating content that is not course specific, the best practice is to log into LEARNscape directly. These include, for example, university advertisement videos, events, conferences, and open educational resources. Videos published to LEARNscape site can be published in public facing or internal channels only viewable by the university community.
When to Use LEARNscape in Brightspace
The integration of LEARNscape in Brightspace automatically connects you to LEARNscape without an additional login. This is best used for video content that is specific to course material. Faculty can use this media platform for welcome videos, video lectures, assignment explanations or video artifacts. For students, LEARNscape in Brightspace is an easy and convenient way to create and upload assignments, projects, or recorded presentations.
How to Access
Go to Brightspace
Getting Started
LEARNscape in Brightspace Table of Contents
What You Can Do with LEARNscape/LEARNscape in Brightspace
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Centralized Media Storage
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Store all your personal media files in one place.
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Video Creation and Sharing.
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Create webcam and screen capture videos.
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Instantly share videos with students or staff.
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Easily link videos into your Brightspace courses.
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Generate embed codes for external sharing.
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Accessibility and Compliance.
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Caption your videos to meet ADA compliance.
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Engagement and Organization.
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Create channels to group similar videos.
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Run analytics reports to see how often videos are viewed and by whom.
Supported Media Formats
- Video: flv, f4v, mp4, mov, mpg, mpeg, webm, wm, wmv, and most others.
- Audio: aac, aiff, amr, asf, avi, f4v, flv, mp3, mp4, mov, wav, and more.
- Images: jpg, png, bmp, and others.