Graphics & Media
The
Process
DVD and VHS
Video digitalization is the most requested service Graphics and Media receives. Any and all Videos that need to be placed in an online course must first be captured and digitized into a web friendly format. For copyrighted material we must render the videos in Real Media which is a strictly streaming format, this prevents students from downloading a copy for themselves. All other videos that are not copyrighted may be converted into either QuickTime or Windows Media format.
To get a video placed into your class you must first fill out this FORM and then drop off the video/s and form/s to Steve Mclean in the Office of Distance Learning. The process can take about a week to complete but typically is done within a few days of the videos being dropped off. A “Job Complete” email will be sent to the corresponding professor once the video has been uploaded to the online course.
Audio
The addition of audio to a course is a simple task that can be performed
by the professor or by a specialist at Distance Learning. Audio can be ripped
from CDs by using a number of different programs such as Windows Media Player
or iTunes. Audio should be ripped to either MP3 or WMA formats.
To get audio ripped by a Distance Learning Specialist and then placed into your
class you must drop off the CD/s to Steve Mclean in the Office of Distance Learning.
The process can take about a week to complete but typically is done within a
few days of the audio being dropped off. A “Job Complete” email will be sent
to the corresponding professor once the audio has been uploaded to the online
course.
Photos/Graphics
Photos and other graphics are great additions to any course. Visual aids of these types bring color and life to a bland page of text and help the student connect to the content.
For assistance in adding photos or graphics to a course email smclean@apu.edu in the Department of Distance Learning.
PowerPoint
PowerPoint is a popular tool for giving presentations and other supplemental information related to the course. Any presentation that is slides only and has no audio or video can be uploaded to the course without any modification. If a presentation has either audio or video in it, it will have to be converted to a flash movie for easy online viewing.
If a PowerPoint presentations is 25Mb or smaller please send it to smclean@apu.edu for conversion. Anything larger then 25Mb is too large for email delivery and can either be delivered by hand to Distance Learning or uploaded to your courses File Manager and then converted at a later time by a Specialist at Distance Learning.