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As of January 2025, the Medial building block integration in Blackboard has been officially retired as part of a mandatory system wide update initiated by Blackboard. Existing Medial videos added via the mashup tool are no longer functional and redirect users back to the course dashboard when clicked. To ensure your video content remains accessible, you will need to manually re-embed videos into your Blackboard courses using embed codes from the Medial platform.

The article helps CCRI faculty use Microsoft Stream for storing and sharing existing, pre-recorded lecture videos with students in the Blackboard. By leveraging OneDrive + Stream, and setting proper student view permissions, faculty can ensure secure student access, automatic captioning, and WCAG 2.1 compliance while simplifying Blackboard integration.

Blackboard provides a variety of short video tutorials... these videos are organized by topic into playlists on YouTube.

What is Streaming?

How does streaming work?

This article explains how to create narrated PowerPoint presentations in VoiceThread by uploading slides (preferably as PDFs) and recording audio directly within the platform slide by slide using the comment tool. It also includes tips, tool comparisons, and support resources.

This guide provides updated instructions for using Microsoft Stream to record, edit, and share lecture videos at CCRI. It includes new AI-driven editing features, detailed steps for ensuring student access across separate Microsoft tenants, and instructions for posting videos in Blackboard using either a direct link or embed code.

CCRI is upgrading Medial to v9.1 on Wed 1/14/26 at 7:00 AM. New recordings will auto-caption automatically (captions can be edited). Existing videos won’t auto-caption—faculty must use Request Captioning, which now triggers auto-captioning (no admin approval). The recorder is now web-only by default; AI/quiz features are included with vendor docs linked.

How to share desktop computer and/or laptop audio-video over the classroom projector and speakers with the Atlona auto-switch.

After inserting a DVD into the computer the DVD won't play? Try starting MPC and opening the disc from there. These steps will show you how to do just that.

Creating Audio and Video Feedback in Blackboard

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