Nicola Osborne, MediaHub service manager, introduces the key features of the new iOS app which allows MediaHub users to search for multimedia content.

1. MediaHub iOS App Webinar
Nicola Osborne, MediaHub Service Manager
Viv Mayo, EDINA User Support

2. Overview of today’s webinar
• Introduction to the new MediaHub iOS App
• Overview of features
• Demos of how the MediaHub app works
• Discussion of how you can use the App in your own teaching, learning
or research
• Questions, comments and feedback.

3. • Visit the MediaHub Service
on your iOS device:
• Click on the special iOS
banner or,
• Click on the download
button:
• Search the App Store for
“MediaHub”.
Downloading the MediaHub iOS App
The MediaHub App is free to download and carries no advertising.

4. Poll: Have you already tried the app?
1. Yes, I have downloaded and
tried it out.
2. I have downloaded it but
haven’t had a chance to try it.
3. No, not yet.
4. No, I don’t have an iOS
device.

5. Getting Started…
• To begin using the app you need to login to
“My MediaHub” via the UK Federation.
• If you have any questions about UK
Federation access please let us know
(edina@ed.ac.uk).

6. What Can You Do With The App?
• Browse featured content
• Browse the most popular items
• Search for MediaHub content
• Preview and view MediaHub items
• Favourite MediaHub items for later use
• Share MediaHub items

7. Browse Featured Content
Explore highlights from our collection which
also appear on the front page of MediaHub.
Each item includes a preview image, a note of
the collection, title, and indicator of format
(video, image or audio).
Click on any item to view the full record.

8. Browse the “Most Popular” Items
Choose to explore by Most Popular
Items or Most Popular Searches.
Most Popular lists reflect what people
have been viewing and searching for in
MediaHub over the last 30 days.
Click on an item to view it’s full record.
This is an interesting and entertaining
way to explore our content, as readers
of our Most Popular blog posts will
already be aware.

9. Search MediaHub Content
Click on “Search” to type in keywords or phrases
to search MediaHub.
Click on “Search Settings” to switch preferred
filters on or off. Filters include:
• Format - video, still images or audio;
• External collections.
You can also choose how your search results are
ordered, by relevance, title or distance from a
location.
“Distance” can be set up either to your own
current location or a location you have selected
on a map. Click on “Edit Distances & Locations”
to make adjustments.

10. Preview and View MediaHub Content
From any of the “Featured”, “Most Popular” or
search results pages (pictured) you can preview
and view MediaHub content.
Click on an item to see the full record and, if
wanted, you can then:
• View a high resolution image
• Listen to the audio file
• View the video in full (although we
recommend that you do this via a wifi
connection to minimise possible data charges).

11. Favourite MediaHub Items for Later Use
From any item page you can favourite an item –
scroll down the item page and tap “Add to
Favourites”.
When you favourite an item in the app, it will also
be added to your favourites list when you next
log in to the MediaHub website. And similarly
anything you have previously favourited in the
service, will be synced to the app.
So, you can search, browse, and select items
whilst on the move, then download and edit
them into presentations, lecture notes,
student projects, etc. on your laptop or desktop
machine.

12. Share MediaHub Items
Click on the familiar sharing icon (top right
hand corner of the app) to share an item.
You can share via email and phone messaging –
click your preferred option to create a new
message including a small image and URL to
the content.
You can also add particularly items to your Mac
Reading List, to print the record, etc.

13. Live Demo
• When you have downloaded the MediaHub
iOS app, click on the MediaHub App Icon to
begin…

14. What can’t I do with the App?
• You cannot download MediaHub content on the app, but you can
favourite items in the app and it will saved to My MediaHub when
you next log in to the web version. You can then download these
items in full and in your preferred format(s).
• You can only share via email and mobile messaging currently (we
expect to add social media sharing in a future release).
• You can only search Jisc eCollections content, and a limited range of
External content. For Medically restricted content or the full range of
External content, please use the web version of MediaHub.

15. Help and Support
• You are free to reuse any part of our introductory blog post – including
video and images:
http://mediahub.blogs.edina.ac.uk/2015/07/07/introducing-the-new-
mediahub-app-for-iphone-and-ipad/
• Our video Guide: http://jiscmediahub.ac.uk/help/video-guides#ios-app
(this is also available via YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8i43R7xns)
• Our Help and Support guide – the iOS app features on page 81:
http://jiscmediahub.ac.uk/documents/guides/Jisc%20MediaHub%20Help.p
df
• We also have another webinar on 3rd September 2015 – email
edina@ed.ac.uk for more information/to sign up.

16. How will you use the MediaHub iOS app in
your teaching & learning?
We welcome your comments and we’d love to see and share:
• Case Studies of how you have used the app in your organisation – just
email edina@ed.ac.uk and we’ll be in touch to chat about how you
use the app and how we can highlight this.
• Reviews & Ratings on the App Store – leave your comments on how
you use the app and how you rate it.
• Your tweets - include @jiscmediahub or #MobileMediaHub and we’ll
be delighted to share your stories/links/comments.
• Your own blog posts or web pages for staff or students about the app,
and how they might use it – we are always very happy to share these!

17. What about Android Apps?
• We are currently developing an Android app which we hope will be
ready by Winter 2015.
• If you would like us to alert you when the Android App is available,
please let us know now or email edina@ed.ac.uk and we’ll keep up
you updated.

18. Poll: Future Multimedia Plans
We are currently considering how we provide multimedia content and
would love to have a chance to chat about MediaHub but also how you
are using images, video, and sound in your organisation.
Would you be happy for us to contact you for a chat?
1. Yes, I’d be happy to chat to Nicola, Lorna or Catherine from the
MediaHub team.
2. Yes, but I know a colleague who might be more appropriate to speak to -
please send me something to forward onwards.
3. Not at the moment, but let me know about any upcoming
events/webinars related to this work.
4. No thanks.

19. Your questions

20. Poll: How did you find today’s webinar?
• I learnt something new
• I didn’t learn anything new
• Was a good use of my time
• Was a poor use of my time
• Other

21. Coming Soon…
• MediaHub Android App – Winter 2015
• We will be sharing highlights from the recent Survey on the
MediaHub blog soon.
• Other recent developments – for example our new Usage Reports ent
live in July - can be found in our recently updated Development
Roadmap.
We are happy to run more webinars, presentations, to create new help
and support videos, or whatever else would best support you and your
organisation – just let us know what you would like!