What is Ensemble?
Ensemble enables users across our organization to share video and video content. The online video platform streamlines video capture, video management and video publishing. The Office of Information Technology Media Center maintains and administers Ensemble. User Guides via Ensemble Support.
- Ensemble Video - online video application, where users can upload, share, and manage video content. This provides your students/audience with a powerful tool that can be used for review, to further supplement material covered in class, or to provide instruction that is entirely web-based. Students have the ability to jump ahead or jump back to particular segments of video content. The recordings/videos can be viewed from any device with an Internet connection via an browser ( Chrome, Firefox, Safari). .
- Ensemble Anthem - screen capture software application. Users can easily record screen movements with audio, and/or record video from a web cam from their office. Anthem can be downloaded to users personal devices if needed.
- Ensemble Studio - easily capture lectures from classrooms. Use scheduled capture or ad hoc capture for recording class lectures. Can capture the display output from a PC, document camera, and/or a laptop as normally displayed and viewed on a projection screen. Professors can request automated recordings of lectures (classrooms containing capture appliance), post online via Blackboard where students can stream them on-demand.
Where can I use this tool?
Anthem - software version
- Installed on SJFC computers via OIT.
- Can be installed on personally owned devices via the online video application - Ensemble.
- Log into Ensemble via my.sjfc.edu/Application Folder located under the launchpad
- Click on the Record button and this will prompt Ensemble to either open or install Anthem on your personally owned computer.
Studio - classroom Capture
- Hardware version is located in some of the buildings listed - Pharmacy, ISHS, Nursing, Salerno, and RCW. List of technology available within classrooms can be found: ITEC --> Instructional Technology Enhanced Classrooms
How do I use this tool?
Step 1: Faculty and Staff accounts are automatically created upon first use. If you have trouble accessing your account, contact the OIT Service Desk.
Step 2: To request training on classroom and/or software capture, contact cite@sjfc.edu
How do I add a quiz to a video?
From Ensemble, click on Administration, click on Library and select Quizzes.
Documentation & Tutorials
Ensemble Studio
Provides easy, automated lecture recording in classrooms. Captures everything being said and
displayed, use scheduled capture or ad hoc capture for recording class lectures.
How do I create an Ad Hoc Capture?
From my.sjfc.edu, within the launch pad select the Application folder and click on the Ensemble link.
- Log into Ensemble using your network credentials.
- Select your course and section.
- From the navigation pane, select Ensemble Studio.
How do I add my recordings to my Bb courses?
Adding Ensemble Recordings to your Blackboard course is easy using the Mashup tool within Blackboard.
- Within your Bb course, click on Course materials, from Build Content, select Ensemble Video item.
- To add an Ensemble Video, click on the Green Plus sign under the video and click on Save.
Documentation and Tutorials via Ensemble