Streaming Video - through Blackboard

Media Services offers faculty the option of delivering video clips in Blackboard via Quicktime Streaming Video. Clips from videotapes can be digitized, placed onto our secure online server and linked to the professor’s Blackboard course. Streaming video can be accessed by authorized Blackboard users from any computer with high-speed internet capabilities, thus providing students with 24-hour access to reserve video materials.

Media Services provides all streaming services under terms established by the Technology, Education and Copyright Harmonization Act (the TEACH Act).

• Any use of streaming video must be analogous to in-class use.
• There is a limited period of time for storage and dissemination.
• Warning and notice of copyrighted materials must be posted.
• Works permitted will be limited displays of images and other works in amounts comparable to live classroom setting.
• Generally, only works belonging to the Media Services library collection may be streamed.

How to request a clip be put on your Blackboard course.
Requests can be made by filling out a Clipping and Streaming Video Edit Log. Media staff can assist you in using video equipment to determine clip time codes for the log.

• Your course must first be active in Blackboard.
• Fill out a separate log for each course.
• We will not accept a syllabus and/or reading list in place of a completed request form.
• The faculty member must sign each copy of the form. Signatures of teaching assistants, administrative assistants, students, spouses, or other faculty or staff are not sufficient.
• Each form must include the instructor's name, the course number, and the instructor's department. The instructor must also provide his/her phone number, and an e-mail address.

Learn more about the TEACH Act from the American Library Association's New Copyright Law for Distance Education:The Meaning and Importance of the TEACH Act.

Relevant documents -
Streaming Policy Form
Clipping and Streaming Video Log
What AU Faculty Need to Know About Copyright for Teaching

For assistance and more information about Blackboard streaming, please contact
, Computer Lab Manager/Media Project Leader, 202.885.3251.