To publish your video, enhanced podcast or audio file on the College website you need to upload it into the media library.
The imedia library: www.imperial.ac.uk/imedia
During the upload process College branding will be added to your file with an Imperial bumper and on outro slide. Once encoded you can embed your video into any College webpage and request an upload to iTunes U.
Upload steps
1. Click on login (at the top of the page) and then input your College login details.
2. Select ‘upload’ to begin the upload process.
3. Select the file you wish to upload.
4. Give your file a suitable and concise title, a description and relevant tags.
- Title – using keywords, this should stand alone as an enticing and helpful summary of the content.
- Description – should give a brief outline of the content, including names of speakers if appropriate.
- Tags – choose relevant tags to attach to your file. Tags are used to search for similar media files in the media library.
5. Select your publish options.
- Show in search – will include your file in the media library. If you deselect this option your file will not appear in the media library and only you will be able to view it via your dashboard.
- Publish to: Imperial College websites – this will enable you to enbed your video into your webpages. iTunes U – this gives you the option to publish your file to iTunes U.
6. If you selected to publish your file to iTunes U, you will need to select the relevant iTunes Channel, Category and Collection.
7. You will need to have a suitable image ready that you’d like to use as your front slide. Alternatively, you can leave choose to have the generic background.
8. When creating the front slide you can adjust the size of your image using the image size slider underneath the image.
Black or white logo – you can choose to have a black or a white logo on the front slide. Please select the most visible colour to your background image.
Audio only – if your file has no visual content select this option
No audio – if you file has no audio select this option
9. You must ensure that the content of your file complies with the College’s use of IT policy and confirm that you or the content creator own the copyright to the content.
What happens next?
- Once you have completed the upload process your file will be encoded. Once your file has finished encoding you will receive an email notification.
- Your file will then be available in your dashboard in the College media library and you can take a copy of the embed code to insert your audio file into any of your web pages.
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