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Question: Does the solution you mention allow the currently enormous iTunes user base to easy find the content, manage it and download it to their iPods? -t On 9/9/09 8:11 AM, "Matt Kolb" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > On Sep 8, 2009, at 11:09 AM, Aldrich, Dak wrote: > >> Greetings: >> >> Some time ago, i heard a rumor that MSU may / may not be in talks with >> Apple over an agreement for a series of iTunes servers, or some system >> that would allow Faculty to share iTunes libraries to other computers >> on campus so that students may do listening exercises and other >> homework involving audio, remotely. >> >> Does anyone know if this was in fact true, or what has or is becoming >> of that? >> >> Being in Music, our faculty have been screaming (yes, some of them >> have gotten rather loud about it) for something like this for... >> well... since i've been here. I am aware of StoreMedia, which is a >> great thing, however, i will be forever showing people how to upload >> and stream media through that, if i even try and open that door. >> >> Thanks for any input anyone might have. > > > We have been investigating this offering with some folks from the > College of Ed and Engineering. The further along we got into the > feature set available in the current version of iTunesU, the more > questions about it we had. > > Prior to Jan 1, 2009, schools who had signed a contract with Apple got > 500GB of storage on Apple's servers. Faculty could upload content via > an upload link baked right into the iTunesU class page they were > responsible for. Apple also had a "dropbox" feature for students at > that point. > > Post Jan 1, 2009 contract-signers were no longer provided this storage > option (thus eliminating the "one click" upload and dropbox > features). This means that the only way to get content into iTunesU > is by linking an RSS feed in the course page (as a "group"). We have > solutions which provide the ability to host content and generate RSS > feeds (Storemedia + streaming.msu.edu) already. The question that > we've been struggling with is: what value then, does iTunesU then > provide for us? > > ./mk -- Troy Murray Information Technologist II Michigan State University Clinical Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI) Biomedical Research & Informatics Core (BRIC) Department 100 Conrad Hall East Lansing, MI 48824 Phone: 517-432-4248 Fax: 517-353-9420 E-mail: [log in to unmask]