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Student Research
Collection Projects
FAQs
Acknowledgements
Overview
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Mandala’s audio-video collections (audio-video.shanti.virginia.edu) have many uses in the classroom. Here, we’ll go over the most common: research and collection projects.
If you want to use Mandala Audio-Video for your class, start thinking about your project and assignments early. Than Grove (than@virginia.edu) is available if you need help.
We suggest you devote some class time to completing projects and teaching students the ins and outs of Audio-Video. This lets you solve confusions quickly and efficiently for the whole class.
Student Research
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Students can use media on Mandala as sources for their own research. They can do this without an account, but an account will let them access extra features.
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Collection Projects
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Students can create their own collections of audio and video. These collections can either be created by the instructor for the entire class, or by the students for individuals or teams.
To make a collection where everyone in the class is a contributor:
- Students log in with NetBadge
- See Log In to Mandala for help
- Students only need to log in once to create their account
- The instructor creates the collection and adds students
- Use the Create a Collection and Add New Collection Members guides to help
- You'll need your students' computing ids
- Students add their videos as needed
- Remember: titles and descriptions can always be edited later
- Pay close attention to metadata, including privacy settings and copyrights
If students need their own collections, they should:
- Log in to audio-video.shanti.virginia.edu with Netbadge
- Create a collection
- Add teammates or the instructor as members of the collection
- New members must have already created accounts by logging in
- Upload their video and audio files
A note on privacy:
You can restrict access to both collections as a whole and individual videos. You can restrict access to collection members only, UVA members only, or the general public. You can also place embargos on access.
FAQs
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I don’t want to micromanage my students: where can they go for help?
This UVA Knowledge Base contains clear and succinct step-by-step guides to completing tasks in Mandala Audio-Video. (And if you want to find out something that isn’t in the guide, let us know. We’re always adding new content to meet UVA needs.)
What if we find a bug in the application?
Contact Than Grove — he’ll sort it out as soon as possible!
All this is theoretical. What have other instructors done with Mandala?
Check out the 2 Minute Thesis collection, created by Dr. Jongmin Lee and STS scholars in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at UVA. Undergraduate students uploaded video summaries of their theses to a group collection. Each student could decide whether the video stayed private to UVA or was displayed to the public, though the collection itself is restricted to UVA members. Using the video’s unique URL and a free QR generator, students then embedded QR codes of the video in their final thesis projects.
Acknowledgements
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Special thanks to Dr. Lee, Than Grove, and Rebecca Rosenblatt for developing the workflow that inspired this guide.