“We’re a small, rural community with a huge, diehard community of superfans and a lot of senior citizens who’ve lived here their entire lives and follow the school events. We’d been thinking of creating a live streaming system like this for a long time. Last summer, the State of California limited the number of guests who could attend graduation ceremonies and large events. The graduation date became our deadline to get this done. We wanted to get this set up for everyone in time for graduation and beyond.”

Michael Hawkins, director of communications, DNUSD

The setup included 14 BirdDog PTZ NDI Cameras which we helped distribute to ASG. The 14 cameras were spread throughout the campus with staff directing the streaming output from one central operations center. ASG choose BirdDog’s PTZ Cameras because of their fully featured NDI capabilities and because they offer outdoor PTZ cameras which DNUSD required. BirdDog’s A200 and A300 outdoor weatherproof cameras are perfect for the field and their P200 PTZ cameras are perfect for the classroom.

This is a fantastic showcase of the power of NDI and BirdDog PTZ cameras. We’re humbled that our gear played a part in enabling these important human connections through the pandemic.”

Eamon Drew, co-founder and CMO of BirdDog.

This live streaming setup was used for multiple school events including their 2022-22 football season. When the school received positive feedback from offering virtual events, they decided to install another five BirdDog PTZ cameras for their outdoor and indoor sports.

When creating the live streaming setup, range, durability and video quality were some of the top priorities to Hawkins team.

NDI was the initial draw to the BirdDog cameras because we’re very rural. We have 4,500 students in the largest geographic school district in the state. In terms of durability, there are no other PTZ camera built as solid as these. With all the wind and rain we get in the Pacific Northwest, that was important to us. And the video quality is full NDI, which is unlike most PTZ models. We have the network to handle it, so we want to make our coverage as good as possible.”

Ryan Bahten, director of information network services, DNUSD

DNUSD is not done yet. They are planning to build out their streaming capacity to more schools in the district. Hawkins says “Currently, we have three cameras in the Crescent Elk Middle School Auditorium. At Del Norte High School, there are multiple indoor cameras installed for basketball, volleyball, and wrestling. For our outdoor sports at Del Norte High, we have cameras at our soccer, baseball, softball, and football fields. We are currently in the process of installing cameras at our outdoor tennis courts and near our track fields. After we finish these installations, we plan on building out streaming capacity at all of our middle schools across the county to begin offering live-streaming to our community and career technical education to students interested in broadcasting and live-streaming.”

Kudos to ASG for helping DNUSD keep their community connected!

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The Epiphan Ecosystem delivers.

Check out Epiphan’s video going over the solutions the Epiphan Ecosystem can bring to your classroom.

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The first question they’ll ask, “What platform is Monarch LCS compatible with?” The good news: the device is compatible with most Video Management Systems (VMSs) – including Kaltura, Presentations2Go, Streamitup and Ubicast, as well as Learning Management Systems (LMSs)/Virtual Learning environments (VLEs), including Moodle, Blackboard, Brightspace and Canvas. What does this mean? Monarch LCS is ready to integrate seamlessly into almost any existing infrastructure. Furthermore, with its compact size, the encoder makes it an ideal fit for any storage rack that can be installed discreetly within the classroom. Its metal frame also makes it extremely hard-wearing.

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The Monarch LCS gives you multiple destination options when streaming or recording. When the device is set to record, an encoding channel captures H.264 content in MOV or MP4 files, meaning that your video files will play on virtually any player. You can also record files locally to an SD card or USB attached storage and transfer those files over the network or via FTP/sFTP at a later time, thus reducing network congestion during peak times, or worse, the potential of losing files in transit due to connectivity issues. Alternatively, you can record lectures to USB drives, SD cards, or network-mapped drives and have them made available immediately to your school’s virtual management system (VMS). For streaming purposes, the encoders use either RTMP or RTSP protocol to deliver live streams to local media servers or cloud-based CDNs.

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Final verdict: the Monarch LCS lecture capture appliance will comfortably cover all your bases when it comes to recording and streaming content anywhere, anytime — and with exemplary sound and picture quality.

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Cameron Rhodes (Video Producer, Epiphan) walks through all the benefits using the Epiphan Family of Encoders can have within the Education Market.

“We design and manufacture reliable, high performance hardware for professional AV sectors like Education.”

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These units are built from the ground up simplifying streaming with advanced features. There are 3 models of the Pearl Family

• Pearl Nano
• Pearl Mini
• Pearl 2

They also have a product called LiveScrypt which allows for live captioning from speech to text in real time.

There’s a lot of great information in this quick rundown of applications and setups for a School/University/Education environments! This includes Kaltura & Panopto lecture capture content manager, Epiphan Cloud, and more.

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Easy enough for the beginners, powerful enough for the pros

The world has changed. More than ever we need reliable, agile ways to communicate with each other remotely. Our products are built for the rigors and demands of professional environments but intuitive and accessible enough for everyday use. Whether you are producing a lecture, live streaming a sporting event, town hall meeting, or company-wide update, Telestream Desktop has all the tools you need to create and deliver professional-quality content to your audience. We offer world-class support and secure, reliable systems so you can reach your viewers wherever they are.

Telestream for Education

Whether you’re live-streaming lectures, graduations, award ceremonies, student news, sports, or guest lectures, Telestream Desktop gives you all the tools you need to reach your students or community wherever in the world they might be.

A brief overview of how your industry is using Telestream desktop products

A real-world example from a desktop customer.

An in-depth description of everything you’ll need to consider before live-streaming.

Wirecast Gear

Start streaming in minutes with an end-to-end system built specifically for your needs. It’s an easy to use, fully configured live video streaming production system and switcher – all in one box.

Available in:

• Wirecast Gear 310
• Wirecast Gear 320
• Wirecast Gear 420

Wirecast

Wirecast’s intuitive UI makes it easy to capture and produce your content live. And, with the ability to stream to unlimited destinations, you can reach your audience wherever they are.

Available in:

• Wirecast Studio
• Wirecast Pro

Screenflow

The easy-to-use editing interface within ScreenFlow lets you creatively edit your video, and add additional images, text, music, and transitions for a professional-looking screencast.

Switch

Switch lets you play a variety of web and professional media formats, inspect and adjust the properties of the file, and then export a new file.

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Pearl Mini could do everything they wanted with a much smaller box. It also offered other possibilities for streamlining their video production even more.

Mikis Goos, Technical Sales Engineer at Intronics

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Featured hardware from Matrox & Epiphan:

• Monarch HD, Monarch HDX, Monarch LCS
• Manufacturer: Matrox
• Supported transfer: USB, SD Card, CIFS, FTP, SFTP, Kaltura

A reasonable solution for a large scale deployment, Matrox’s Monarch LCS device is small and so affordable as to be nearly disposable. The Monarch LCS has the ability to record or stream two isolated sources. Mix and match to your liking. Streaming options include both RTSP and RTMP. The ability to do two isolated recordings makes the Monarch LCS Open Capture compatible (a standard supported by Kaltura) and also integrates with a number of scheduling solutions, including Kaltura’s. Large institutions with a robust internal support unit will benefit most from this solution as you might find the Monarch LCS needs a lot of babysitting, which is where Matrox’s true killer app comes in handy: Radar, Matrox’s dashboard software, is available for free and installs on a Windows box, allowing you to monitor and administer your fleet in an at-a-glance interface.

• Pearl Mini, Pearl-2, Pearl-2 Rackmount, Pearl-2 Rackmount Twin
• Manufacturer: Epiphan
• Supported transfer: USB, FTP, SFTP, RSync, CIFS, SCP, AWS, WebDav, Kaltura, Panopto

Epiphan offers a premium lecture capture solution. Their devices have a clean, intuitive interface and integrate easily into many ecosystems, including Kaltura, through it’s scheduling and Open Capture protocols. The Pearl devices carry a touchscreen for operating the device, but also doubles as a confidence monitor. But the touchscreen makes the Pearl pricier than its competitors.

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Check out some highlights from this article from streamingmedia.com on video’s place in higher education.

Even before the COVID-19 crisis, we had reached the point where the video landscape for education is mature and largely swept clear of skeptics. Few teachers and administrators still doubt that educational video can enhance student experiences—fully online video-based instruction is broadly accepted as an effective mode of lecturing. 

Actual proof for these beliefs is somewhat harder to find, though, due to the confounding nature of real-world research limitations. Plenty of studies have been published showing that students learn material about as well—or even better—from video than from in-person lectures, but almost all are comparing college students, who are presumably savvy and resourceful learners under any circumstances. The availability of video resources tends to increase alongside the engagement level of the student body: Competitive universities will have better access to video services than public high schools, and university researchers studying impacts of video on learning outcomes will have better access to their own students than to less academically inclined students who may have a greater challenge learning from video. 

Anecdotally, though, educational video appears to be finding an audience outside of formal schools, with many popular and highly informative YouTube channels devoted to auto repair, construction, and other skilled technical labor. An exemplar of the state of learning-outcomes research is a 2019 journal article from Judith L. Leatherman and Lacy M. Cleveland, which describes a flipped classroom experience for a genetics course. It shows that student learning outcomes were roughly the same as for comparable non-flipped classes, while investigating the confounding elements that make it difficult to attribute the results of the study specifically to video. As always, more research is needed, and the ubiquity of video in schools will help produce more results and guide best practices in the next year and decade.

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When you need it yesterday: how to get virtual classrooms up and running quickly in a temporarily disrupted environment and tips on how to expand your existing remote learning setup.

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When looking for a Video Content Management System (VCMS) for your university or business, two big names jump out: Kaltura and Panopto. Both offer rich video management solutions that deliver Cadillac services with plenty of bells and whistles from interactive quizzing and multiple-source recordings to accessibility features like captions and in-video searching. These video solutions do it all.

This article unravels the Kaltura out-of-the-box features and add ons for education and business, then dives into the Panopto video solution to give you more insight into these VMCS solutions.

What is Kaltura for business and education?

The Kaltura video solution consists of a video platform and a wide range of products that enable users to create and edit videos, manage video assets at scale in a searchable library, securely share videos across the organization and out over the Internet, as well as do deep video analytics.

Kaltura’s out-of-the-box video solution is easily customizable for a branded experience. There’s an extensive selection of add on products to custom fit Kaltura to your specific video workflow needs, including integrations with popular Content Management Systems (CMSs) and Learning Management Systems (LMSs). Products are available for live streaming and other interesting functions like transcribing. Kaltura’s platform is fully integrated with global tier-1 CDNs such as Akamai, AWS, and Tata Communications or a CDN of your choice. There’s also an eCDN solution.

Kaltura can record meetings and lectures from any office space or classroom. Multiple source recordings can be automatically published to LMSs. Uploaded content can be enriched with features like like captioning, video quizzes, and advanced metadata using the integrated Kaltura platform and products.

The Kaltura SaaS Edition video solution is hosted in the cloud with various licensing options. For high security applications, Kaltura also offers a full On-Premise Edition, which supports flexible hybrid SaaS/On-premise deployment options. A free, self-hosted version called Kaltura Community Edition is also available for developers willing to integrate Kaltura using the available open source code. In addition, there’s an API-based Video Platform as a Service (VPaaS) solution for developers and tech platforms to build their own video solutions using Kaltura’s APIs, SDKs, and developer tools. Of course, for anybody not wanting to invest in developing their own video solution, the out-of-the-box Kaltura SaaS video solution is the deployment option to go with.

What is Panopto?

Panopto is an industry-leading SaaS Video Content Management System (VCMS) / online video portal for businesses and educational institutions. It’s hosted in the cloud and supports elastic scaling, which adjusts as usage and storage needs change. Use it to record, live stream, edit, manage, and distribute video content securely across organizations and on the Internet. Features include in-video Smart Search of all video assets across the library, multiple-source recording, webcasting, customizable interactive multiple-view player, auto-synchronization and indexing of slide presentations, custom thumbnails, a video editing tool, quizzing, captions, analytics, bulk uploads, and more. Uploaded content is saved in Panopto’s secure servers where administrators can define content access rights and privileges. Panopto has built-in integrations for popular LMSs, CMSs, and CRMs.

Panopto is an “all-in” video solution that’s packaged as a single web-based application, whereas Kaltura offers a suite of “pick-and-choose” add ons for a customizable video solution. Free mobile apps are also available. There’s the Panopto Mobile app for iPhone and iPad, as well as the Panopto for Android app.

Panopto features out-of-the-box

Here are the key Panopto features included in the core product.

The Panopto VCMS

Panopto’s Video CMS is an end-to-end video platform solution that offers a secure, web-based video portal in the cloud where users can create, manage, and live stream video content. It features video creation and editing, in-video searches, drag and drop video uploading, transcoding, live streaming, interactive video players, quizzing, video analytics, captioning, and the ability to custom brand your video portal.

Recording video

Recording multiple video sources directly from within Panopto. Choose from an unlimited number of camera sources, slideshows, and capture a live computer screen in full HD. For all video recordings, a table of contents with video thumbnails is automatically generated for easy navigation. Content from slide presentations, notes and comments are also automatically indexed for search. You can schedule recordings or start unscheduled ad hoc recordings at any time. External hardware encoders like those from Epiphan Video are fully supported for better quality capture. When your session ends, recordings upload automatically to your folder in Panopto. Pre-built video conferencing integrations let you record and share video assets from these video conferencing solutions: BlueJeans, GoToMeeting, Skype for Business, and Zoom. Panotpo administrators can setup single sign-on (SSO) ID management to control access to the recorded content, including: Google Apps, oAuth, SAML, and Active Directory. Other integrations are also available for a seamless video recording experience.

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