ARCHIVED: Oncourse 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, 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.

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
  • Documents: PDF and ePub
• IU has a 500 GB 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:

  iTunes U Private sites, formerly accessible via Oncourse, are no longer available; see Accessing and archiving content from iTunes U private sites. IU's iTunes U Public site, accessible via the iTunes Store and searchable by users worldwide without authentication, remains available. For details about iTunes U Public, see ARCHIVED: Courses and Collections in iTunes U Public.
• 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 ARCHIVED: iTunes U.