Most instructors use MediaShare as a video playground where students can practice delivering speeches. Students can use their computers, phones, or any device with a webcam to create and upload a video. By recording and uploading their speeches and by evaluating and commenting on each other's work, students can experiment and learn at the same time.
Even though MediaShare is much like a social networking site, you can choose to monitor and approve all comments, videos, and documents before they are published. You can also add peer-review rubrics so students have guidelines and standards for evaluating each other's work. Students can also have privacy and flag a submission as viewable by the entire class, only a specific group of students, or only by you.
In order for your students to use MediaShare, you must set up at least one course in MediaShare and create MediaShare assignments for that course. Students then enroll in the MediaShare course (at no extra cost) and upload videos or documents as their assignment submissions.
Here are some ideas on how to get started with MediaShare:
This online Help is also available as the MediaShare Instructor .pdf file that you can view online or download.
Note: There is no exchange or synchronization of information between a MediaShare and a MyLab course. The MediaShare courses, assignments, rubrics, submissions, and grades reside only in MediaShare. However, if you want to add MediaShare grades to the MyLab's gradebook, you can create a custom column and manually add the grades. (See the MyLab's online Help for more information.)
Rubrics | Moderate student comments and submissions