Learning and teaching has changed dramatically over the last decade. Now there are ways to teach others without a student ever seeing a teacher’s face. Creating an infrastructure to house video lessons and maintaining servers are only something universities and large school systems can afford to do. With the latest web technology, you can easily host and set up entire online video learning libraries for online training and teaching. MediaCore is the web service hoping to effectively use the latest web technologies to allow you to teach online.
MediaCore is an online tool for video learning and is effective in education and business. MediaCore has a simplistic approach that will get your content up and available for your users to see, without very much effort. It also has readily available stats and customization tools. Is MediaCore right for you and your organization? Let’s get right into my review of MediaCore!
Overview
MediaCore is a media management solution that is easily dispensed across your organization and is made available over the Internet. Your content can easily be acquired in the form of video, screencast and PowerPoint presentations, or even audio recordings. Content is easily uploaded, revised, and organized to fit your changing needs. With MediaCore you also can upload videos from a Mac app, iOS app, or your web browser on any computer, efficiently.
MediaCore Media Upload
Getting Started
Getting Started requires that you first sign up for the MediaCore 30 day risk free trial at the MediaCore website. I do not see a way for you to just go ahead and sign up without going through the free trial phase; however, the free trial does not require a credit card. With the free trial you get 1gb off storage and 1gb of bandwidth.
MediaCore Plans
Also if you are a teacher in the education field, you can take advantage of their free teacher plan. This free plan comes with no restrictions and is a great way to get your educational videos and other media on the web.
MediaCore for Teachers
Once you’ve sign up, you will be taken to your account page where you can upload videos and set up podcasts.
MediaCore Signup
Uploading video or audio is very simple; just click the “Add Media” tab at the top. You can fill in the name, add a thumbnail, add descriptions, and add tags.
Podcast Set Up
You can also set a time to publish at a later date and set who is authorized to view the video. Once you videos are live, they will be viewable on your MediaCore page available at the sub domain you created when you signed up.
MediaCore Library
Customizing Your Channel
The main features of MediaCore are easy to understand, it holds your media files for easy disbursement via the Internet and they are displayed on your own custom page. However, the best part of MediaCore are some of the great features for customizing your video channel and your video page that are included. All of your customization controls are located in settings.
MediaCore Settings
The appearance of your video channel is easily changed to match your school or university logos. You can also add background images to further customize your channel. If you would like to monetize your channel, you have the option to integrate advertising into your channel. You can actually integrate with any advertising service, such as Google Adsense, all you need is the HTML code to paste into the appropriate areas.
MediaCore Advertising
Another great benefit of MediaCore is its security features. You can set privacy and user permissions based on category. You can choose what they can play, if they can upload, or download media; also for your admin users, you can set permission for managing the site! You can also set custom roles specific to your organization or education program to allow certain users access to different functions of your site admin.
Custom User Roles
Want to monetize your content? MediaCore supports payment integration with PayPal and 2Checkout. MediaCore also allows you to sync up your site with the Google Analytics for website traffic statistics. MediaCore allows the administrator great access to various customization functions to easily control your channel.
Conclusion
MediaCore is a great solution for the problem of hosting and organizing training and education media online. MediaCore is great for teachers and businesses and allows administrators to upload video and audio media to their servers for easy distribution. Customization for your MediaCore channel is outstanding. You can customize everything from the appearance to adding advertising to even using third party services such as Google Analytics. MediaCore also includes the ability to set up a podcast and have it distributed to podcast directories such as iTunes U.
MediaCore has a 30 day free trial to get started and if you are a teacher, you can sign up for free! Out of 10 possible points, I give MediaCore a 9. MediaCore really cannot get much better; it does its intended purpose with style and simplicity. I would give it a 10 out of 10 if there were ways to customize the colors of your video channel.