Overview

The LectureTube administration interface allows you to manage your video content efficiently.

Once you have logged in to the site, you have the option of managing your videos, uploading them or recording them via the browser.

Figure 1: Home page of the LectureTube administration interface after successful login

The following options are available in the left-hand navigation bar:

• Home: The start page of the Management UI, where you can look up general information and links to instructions
• Videos: Management page of your individual videos
• Series: Management page of your LectureTube series
• Upload: Upload videos to your LectureTube series 
• Studio: Record videos via the browser

Figure 2: Left navigation menu

Videos - edit metadata, cut videos, retrieve videos

Click on “Videos” in the left-hand navigation menu to filter and manage your videos. You can use the icons under “Actions” to edit the metadata of the videos (pencil icon) or edit the videos and their automatically generated subtitles (scissors icon). You can also play the videos in a new tab (play icon).

Figure 3: Overview of your LectureTube videos

Series - Edit metadata, upload videos

Click on “Series” in the left-hand navigation menu to filter and manage your series. You can use the icons under “Actions” to edit the metadata of the series (pencil icon) or upload videos to the respective series (upload icon).

Figure 4: Overview of your LectureTube series

Upload - upload videos

Under “Upload videos” in the left navigation menu, you can upload videos to one of your series.

Figure 5: Select video file and upload to LectureTube

Studio - Record videos via the browser

Via “Studio” in the left navigation menu you will be redirected to the LectureTube Studio. The LectureTube Studio allows you to record videos via your browser, which you can then download or transfer directly to LectureTube. You can find more information on this in the LectureTube Studio instructions.

Figure 6: Record videos with the LectureTube Studio via the browser

Visibility 

To set the visibility of videos, please go to the LectureTube Verwaltungsoberfläche in the “Visibility” section.

Visibility of series

In the side menu bar, you will find the “Series” tab, among other things. Here, under Actions for the selected series, you can click on the pencil icon with the “Edit” function.

Figure 15: Management UI “Series”

A menu will then open with the tabs “Metadata” and “Access.”

Under “Access,” you will find the access policies. There are several options here, which can be seen in Figures 16.

Figure 16: Access policies

In the access list, you can add users and set their permissions to “Read” and “Write,” as well as delete users.

Then save the settings with the “Update” button.

Figure 17: Management UI access permissions

Video visibility

To set the visibility of individual videos, select “Videos” in the side menu bar.

There you can see your videos. You can use the search bar to search for a specific video.

Here you can edit the visibility, such as “Visibility in series,” using the pencil icon.

Figure 18: Management UI “Videos”

Figure 19: Management UI access permissions for videos

Link to video platform

If you want to quickly open the video or series on the video page, there is a video button under Actions that takes you directly to the selected video or series.

Figure 20: Video platform redirection

Sneak Peek - Delete videos and edit permissions

In future, you will also be able to use the administration interface to delete videos you do not need and to change the permissions of individual videos.
Until then, you are welcome to contact support@lecturetube.tuwien.ac.at so that these changes can be made for you.

Central TU Wien
Support for Teaching