Oncourse CL iTunes U: Overview

What it does

iTunes U is a proprietary service set up by way of an agreement between Apple and Indiana University that makes podcasts more readily available to students, faculty, and staff at IU. With the iTunes U tool added to Oncourse CL, any instructor or site owner can create an iTunes U site and add content to that site. Site members can access the content from within Oncourse CL.

Key concepts

Expected audience: IU students, faculty, and staff, and some external audiences visiting iTunes U (e.g., potential students, alumni, and members of the public who are seeking IU podcasts)

Expected content: Primarily educational content, with some public and university marketing content; educational content can include, but is not limited to, recorded course material

Things to consider

• Supported file formats are:
  
  
  • Audio: .m4a, .m4b, and .mp3
  • Video: .mp4, .m4v, and .mov
  
  
• IU has a 500GB storage limit (provided by Apple).
  
  
• Students with appropriate permissions can publish content to iTunes U.
  
  
• By default, access to a site's iTunes U content is restricted to site members.

  Note: Indiana University has launched a public iTunes U site in the iTunes Store, but continues to offer iTunes U sites that require IU Network ID authentication (accessible via Oncourse CL or at http://itunes.iu.edu/). Content in the public iTunes U site is searchable by users worldwide via the iTunes Store and requires no authentication. To make your podcast available to the public, add the iTunes U tool to your Oncourse CL site, and then fill out and submit the iTunes U Request Form.

Note: Instructors assign permissions for iTunes U from their iTunes U sites. Enter your iTunes U site, click Edit Page, and then click + (the plus sign) in the lower left-hand corner.

Help documentation

For help documentation about the iTunes U tool, see Oncourse CL iTunes U: Help contents.