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DU CourseMedia™

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DU CourseMedia™ was developed by the Center for Teaching and Learning at the University of Denver as a course-based media presentation tool for organizing and presenting high quality images and videos to system participants.

Although it was initially built with the needs of faculty in the school of art and art history in mind, DU CourseMedia™ is now used by faculty in many other disciplines in approximately 600 courses each term.

Through DU CourseMedia™, instructors have access to over 40,000 art and world history images and over 1,000 library reserve videos.

DU CourseMedia™ allows instructors to create online galleries that can include streaming video, images, text slides, discussion boards, quizzes, and voice narrations.

Platforms

DU CourseMedia™ is primarily a Coldfusion-based web application running on CF8.  It also makes heavy use of the Flash Platform in the media presentation, editing, and management tools which exist in the system.  For video delivery, we make heavy use of Flash Media Interactive Server 3. The main repository for DU CourseMedia™ is our ALORA system which is mySQL-based along with DU CourseMedia™.

Development Team

  • Alex Martinez: Coldfusion development, database design
  • Joseph Labrecque: Flash/ActionScript development, visual layout and design elements, Flash Media Server

How can I get started?

Go to http://coursemedia.du.edu/ and complete the online request form or contact the Center for Teaching & Learning 303-871-2084.