Sunset Lake Software - Comments for "My experience with the new iTunes U Course Manager"

Has your teacher looked at

Has your teacher looked at the Subtext app? It is Google-based, requiring a gmail account and Google Play books (it can also work with PDFs/web pages that are converted into ePubs:bfor more info, seehttp://vimeo.com/readwithsubtext/videos/page:1/sort:date ). I am using it within my iTunes U class setup. So far it has been terrific.

Interactions in iTunes U are

Interactions in iTunes U are purely one-way. The service is intended for you to disseminate video content and supporting class information to a broad audience, but not for that audience to respond in any way. If you're going to have graded assignments, you'll need to find another service to host that material on.

Hi I am setting up a course

Hi I am setting up a course for work not affiliated with any college and I cannot find information on assignment submission. After reading blogs and viewing tutorials (yours was very helpful) I am concerned this feature may only work with an Institution site. It is too bad that connectivity is not enabled I wondered why I could not find any discussion or wiki type of interaction are there quizzes? Is there a student view? Any help greatly appreciated

I have a teacher who wants to

I have a teacher who wants to do a Flipped classroom but she wants it to be an interaction between her and her teachers instead of teachers and students. My district blocks utube, atube catcher and most blogs. Can anyone thing of a website that she could upload videos of herself talking which has spaces for teachers to respond and see each others responses. It needs to be something easy to manage

Brad, It's a nice blog entry,

Brad, It's a nice blog entry, that is a helpful introduction to iTunesU. Have you also looked into iBooks? I would be interested in books that have apps within them (in addition to media/presentation files). Do you know if we can put an app in iBooks-books? It is probably not straightforward, as only one app can take screenspace on iOS.

Hi Brad, I created a course

Hi Brad,

I created a course with the course manager. The iTunes U site administrator of my University added my Apple ID and my course to the iTunes U catalog. However, when I tried to add my course to my University's iTunes site, an error message came up: "Something went wrong".

Any ideas ?

Of course, because Apple

Of course, because Apple doesn't give away iTunes, iTunes U, iOS updates, etc. for free. They also don't host free applications like my Molecules and allow millions of people to download them.

Quite frankly, they're losing money on iTunes U, because they're hosting expensive video like what we produced for our classes for free. Were we to host this ourselves, the bandwidth alone would have cost us thousands of dollars by this point. The nominal idea is that this encourages hardware sales, but they make this available through a free iTunes client on Windows, so Apple products are not the only way that people can benefit from it.

Are you saying that they shouldn't allow people to give away educational material for free? That we should lock out those who cannot pay to attend Stanford or who aren't physically located near one of these universities? One of my best moments was having someone from Saudi Arabia approach me at a recent conference and say how much my lectures meant to him. No one near his town was teaching this material, nor could he afford to pay for much in order to learn this. He's now successful enough to pay for his way to the US for conferences like this, based in part on what he learned here.

It's not Apple's choice to make this available for free, it's our own. Would you like to remove our freedom to donate this information to the world? They've provided a tremendous service to the world, and whether or not we use it is entirely up to us.

interesting there is an

interesting there is an expectation with itunes U education should be handed out for free, while apple hardware, music, apps, and software are certainly not...

Thank you Brad !! For the

Thank you Brad !! For the explanation and for making & sharing the videos.

The videos are all 720p at 30

The videos are all 720p at 30 FPS. The original AppleTV only supported 720p video at 24 FPS, not 30. All of my videos were recorded at 30 FPS, and when I tried to reencode them at 24 FPS they ended up looking terrible, so I decided to leave them at 30 FPS and drop support for the original AppleTV. Relatively few people have the original AppleTV compared to those with the two newer, cheaper versions, as well as all the modern iOS devices which handle 30 FPS 720p content, so I felt the increased quality was a good tradeoff.

It's too bad that the original AppleTV was so limited in this regard.