What is Streaming?
Streaming is a technology for playing audio and/or video files (either live or pre-recorded) directly from a server without having to download the file. This avoids time-consuming downloads of large files, and may help avoid copyright infringement since the user never is provided with a complete copy of the file.
Streaming files are stored on a special server. Web pages (including Blackboard) can link to these streaming files. The viewer must have plugins on their computer to play back the file, but these plugins are free, and in many cases are already installed. There are hardware and software requirements to be able to receive streamed files, but you may want to encourage your students to test their systems by using our test page.
Any regular system maintenance and server restarts for any of our services will be scheduled weekdays between 5:00 am and 7:00 am. All users should be aware that a system may become unavailable during this maintenance time.
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