Ensemble Video

Provided a number of video recording tools.

Simplified video management for educators and IT staff.

Makes publishing video in our LMS easy.

Video quizzing and video assignments are excellent.

Mobile video management and uploads have been simplified.

I would say our campus' overall business objective would be to serve our students. Ensemble Video has helped us to do that, and in particular has helped to better serve students with special needs.

Ensemble Video has provided positive impact on our Distance Education program which allow users to view streaming media for educational purposes.

Ease of user contributed content. The videos that users upload to the system can either be automatically published or they can be reviewed by staff before being added to websites and courses. Instead of all these videos living on different sites (YouTube, Vimeo, etc.) we now have a centralized location that we have control over.

LMS Integration - A year ago YouTube changed their policy to not allow direct recording from webcams. This essentially broke the Blackboard Video Everywhere tool that allowed our instructors to post quick comments in class discussions and content areas. While they need to be pre-recorded, the Ensemble Building Block allows our instructors and students to once again upload and post videos, all from directly within the Blackboard content editor.

Flexibility - With the ease of creating user accounts and video libraries, Ensemble Video has become the go to option for Erikson courses, professional development content and project videos. Different departments can have their own account and have control over their libraries without the worry of them viewing or editing other institute content.

Ensemble videos allows our department in house to manage and stream videos to be viewed by our campus community.

Providing these services saves our university money, which is a precious resource on our campus.

It has helped open doors to academic customers.

The multi-tenant solution could be a strong revenue generator.

We have saved money overall by implementing this service. [We are] Increasing the availability of the service to our users and reducing the overall cost. Win win.

We were able to streamline our capture process.

The ease of use has reduced technician man hours for training and support.

Having to hire outside vendors to live stream events has saved us money.

Students can access videos off campus, where before they had to be on campus to view videos housed within the video-on-demand system.

Positive = Streamline content sharing to meet a variety of objectives.

ROI is sometimes tricky because systems, once implemented, are never welcomed by end users and thus, the ROI originally foreseen was more idealistic than real. Ensemble Video is almost universally well received by end users and thus, there is a real ROI that mostly relates to institutional effectiveness.