When to use
The suite of TELT services offers many ways for you to host and share educational digital media such as audio, video and images with staff and students.
This page explains the technical and educational advantages and disadvantages of each TELT service, to help you identify the best service for your learning and teaching requirements.
Benefits
There are many advantages to using TELT services for digital media such as images/audio/video. They include:
- sharing of digital content between staff and students, in a common online environment
- online submission of digital content for assessment purposes.
Challenges
Choosing the TELT service that best fits your learning and teaching requirements, and then using the tool in a way that facilitates genuine learning, can be quite challenging. Ask yourself:
- Are your students really reviewing and learning from the content?
- How will providing digital content affect the way you deliver your lectures?
- Does your digital content stay online forever?
- Have you considered potential accessibility issues?
Getting started
Step 1—Identify your requirements
Common questions include:
- What media types will best serve your pedagogical requirements? Images, Audio, Video, all of the above?
- What interaction will your target audience require? Viewing/streaming content, downloading content, editing content?
- Will you be disseminating information, accepting information, or both?
- Do your students need to be able to submit/upload content?
Step 2—Identify the system that best meets the requirements
TELT Services include:
- Moodle—Learning Management System
- UNSW Lecture Recordings—Echo360
- UNSWTV—Digital media management platform
- UNSW YouTube channel—Video streaming platform
Step 3—Set up the service as required
Online support resources and face-to-face training sessions are available.
Most faculties and/or schools have TELT support staff, educational designers and/or educational technologists available to assist.
Step 4—Integrate the service into your overall teaching strategy for a seamless experience
Digital media use in online teaching
The most common online teaching scenario involves using the Moodle Learning Management System as an online hub, coupled with links to other supportive online systems such as UNSW Lecture Recordings.
In this model, staff upload their digital media into the digital media service, and then share this with students through Moodle via a plugin or embedded link.
Other scenarios may avoid the Moodle LMS as the central learning environment, and use another system that better suits users' needs.
TELT services comparison - functionality
| Service | Primary purpose | Recommended file size limit | Displayable media | Connectivity | Audio & video streaming |
Staff & student download |
Podcast |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lecture Recordings | Audio/video lecture recording | 400 MB | Audio/video | Echo Block and Echo360 Link Activity in Moodle, Access URLs | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Moodle | Learning environment | 200 MB hard limit per file | All (hosting only) | Accepts Blocks, URLs, Embed Codes, Files | No | Yes | No |
| UNSWTV | Video streaming | 700 MB | Audio/video | Access URLs, Embed Codes | Yes | No | No |
| UNSW YouTube | Video streaming | Inherited from UNSWTV | Inherited from UNSWTV | Access URL | Yes | No | No |
| UNSW Media Collection (TBD—Pilot) | Visual gallery | Inherited from Moodle | Audio/video/image | Media Collection activity in Moodle | No | Yes | No |
TELT services comparison - accessibility
| Service | Login | Access restrictions |
Staff use | Student use | Access duration | Public access? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lecture Recordings | zPass | Student enrolments based on course code | Instructors | Viewing or downloading | Throughout semester | No |
| Moodle | zPass | Student enrolments based on course code | Instructors / Teaching Assistants / Tutors | Embedded content is streamable, most content downloadable | Throughout semester | No |
| UNSWTV | None / zPass | None/Course Code/School/Faculty | Media owner and chosen agents | Viewing and submitting | Ongoing | Yes |
| UNSW YouTube | None | None | Inherited from UNSW TV | Viewing only | Ongoing | Yes (Always) |
| UNSW Media Collection (TBD - Pilot) | Inherited from Moodle | Student enrolments based on course code | Instructors / Teaching Assistants / Tutors | Viewing and submitting | Throughout semester | No |