Mediasite allows students to search for videos in a variety of ways. This allows you to find a particular video based on Title, Description, Closed Captions or Slides.
Search Inside Video Content within Canvas
Search for a Mediasite Video Presentation
To search for a specific topic within a Channel of Mediasite Videos:
- Browse to Canvas Course
- Click Video Collection link
- Search for a specific term or keyword
- The search results will be displayed
- Play a video
Search Within a Mediasite Video Presentation
Many times, you want to find a specific topic within a video. Within Mediasite, it’s possible to search within a specific video for a keyword that may have been used within the slides or audio of the Presentation.
To search within the Captions and OCR a Mediasite Video Presentation:
- Start playing an embedded Video Presentation
- Click on the Search icon
- Enter the keyword you would like to search for
- Mediasite will display the results of the search
- Click on any of the results to skip to that part of the Video Presentation
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