I hope that you’re all enjoying creating podcasts. In order to post your podcast on our course site, you will need to do the following:
- Go to your dashboard/backend
- From the lefthand menu choose “Media: Add New”
- Upload your Podcast to the Media Library (name it something descriptive/appropriate)
- Copy the file’s URL (that is generated)
- Select your file and choose “Save all changes” (NOT “insert into post”)
- Close out media box
- “Add New” post (or page, if in the future you want to embed a podcast on a separate page)
- Title & “categorize” post appropriately
- I encourage you to add some text to your post as well instead of simply posting the podcast and letting it stand for itself. It would be helpful for you to contextualize it: what is your audience viewing? What is its purpose? Why is it important? (etc.)
- Scroll down to the very bottom of the screen and click “Add Media” button (under the “Podcasting” section)
- Paste your file’s URL in the Location box
- Assign Type to M4V (if you choose M4A, the images will not show up)
- Auto-detect the size and duration of the file
- Preview and publish!!
- If you don’t want the default “MHC” preview image, you can select your own preview image that will appear (to do this, just upload a still image to the site’s Media Library and then paste that URL into the “preview image URL” box)
*As always, please feel free to schedule an appointment to come see me during my office hours (or to e-mail me) with any questions/concerns 🙂
