The Complete Media Solution for Education
VIDEO ON DEMAND Provide access to your media 24/7
Manage your content via fully customisable metadata fields, categories and sub-categories. Control your content via a comprehensive administration console and seamless Active Directory integration. Brand and customise the look and feel of your media archive by adding logos and creating colour schemes and themes.
Create, brand and control your own
Deliver your content on demand via
secure “YouTube” style media
websites, PCs and Macs, mobile
archive with Planet eStream...
devices, smart TVs and digital signage
Add content to your archive by... Digitising your existing DVD library. Uploading videos from mobile devices.
displays. Share and embed your content via VLEs, websites and social media.
Uploading video files from PCs and Macs. Recording TV and radio programmes. Capturing live footage from events and teaching spaces.
Since investing in the Planet eStream system, Oxford Spires Academy has
Capturing your desktop screen
seen a multitude of benefits to
content.
teaching, learning and community
Adding still images and photos.
relations.
Adding other media such as PowerPoint Presentations.
SAM ADAMS - ICT Technician Oxford Spires Academy
LIVE STREAMING
Broadcast your events to a wider audience
Multiple sources? Concurrently capture from multiple live sources such as camera feeds and the presenter’s desktop, for simple and effective lecture and lesson capture.
Offsite location? Connect to the internet anywhere using WiFi / 3G / 4G connections.
Stream your live events to audiences anywhere using Planet eStream’s innovative live broadcasting tools. Select from a wide range of video sources, including... Webcams. Video cameras. Presenter’s desktop. High quality capture cards.
Planet eStream’s campus wide deployment at the University of East Anglia is starting to have a real impact on our teaching and our students’ learning. ALICIA McCONNELL- Head of Learning Technology University of East Anglia
Planet eStream has been one of the most popular ICT investments the school has made. We have streamed
USB devices.
concerts live across Europe with visiting
Network video sources.
choirs from Austria and Sweden and
Planet eStream takes the complexity out of live streaming, leaving you to concentrate on your event.
sent video messages from our pupils to our linked school in Taiwan JONATHAN HAVES - ICT Development Director Manchester High School for Girls
DIGITAL SIGNAGE
Breathe new life into your signage with Planet eSign
Display your content across single screens or zoned groups of screens via nettop boxes or Planet eSign Digital Signage Players with our free client software.
We wanted a cost effective, versatile and multi-user driven Digital Signage System for our brand new David Hockney Campus Building and the Planet eStream Signage
Engage your audience with Planet eStream’s fully featured Digital Signage System, Planet eSign. Design your screen layouts using the Planet eSign screen designer. Add content from a wide range of sources including your media archive, live video streams, live TV, RSS feeds, Twitter and many more. Schedule your content to be displayed on any screen at your chosen times and dates. Manage and delegate control of individual elements of a screen or an entire screen to your users,
System perfectly fits the bill. Planet eSign supports the greatest number of content types for all of our users, including teachers and admin staff. It allows for assigned access to message content panels, screens and zonal areas particular to their teaching or library areas around the building. On November the 14th 2014 we hosted the BBC Regional Live Broadcast for Children In Need and the Planet eSign system was predominantly used to provide the graphics loops for the studio design background, including a video wall, and live BBC1 feeds to all other screens around campus. The BBC producer and production crew were really impressed. ZAID BASHIR - Technical Development Team Leader Bradford College
TV AND RADIO RECORDING AND IPTV Record and stream live TV and radio
A few weeks ago, a tutor asked if we had recorded a programme that aired four days before. I was able to go into eStream and add it straight away whilst she was there and she was able to watch it in her classroom a couple of hours later - this is just brilliant! SIMON MAPP - Learning Centre Assistant Coleg Cambria
Add programmes from Freeview TV and radio channels to your Planet eStream archive. Use your desktop PC or mobile device to schedule recordings via an intuitive web based EPG (electronic programme guide). Never miss a programme again by taking advantage of Planet eStream’s retrospective recording function buffer 2 weeks of programmes that have already aired.
The functionality and flexibility of the Planet eStream Freeview Recording Scheduler is by far the best I’ve seen. Staff manage the recording and
Stream TV channels live across your
scheduling of content from both PC and
network using IPTV multicast
mobile devices, simply and easily with
technology.
only a few minutes of user training.
Add an entire series with one simple click.
CARL WOOD - Assistant Network Manager Oakham School
BRANDING AND CONTROL Create your own secure user experience
Provide a secure and moderated environment for your staff and students to share their digital assets. Control access to media at a user level via Planet eStream’s powerful schema tools. Enable and disable functionality on a global and individual user level. Empower your educators with our advanced secure sharing and
Customise the overall look and feel of your Planet eStream media archive to reflect your unique branding.* Personalise your media archive by adding your logos and name. Design page layouts for individual user
embedding functionality.
The ability to filter access through Active Directory groups has enabled colleagues to ensure content is
areas and categories.*
suitable for different age groups and
Apply your own colour schemes and
teachers are able to direct students to
unleash the powerful customisation
age appropriate resources by setting
potential of Planet eStream.*
playlist controls.
*Coming in 2015
SAM ADAMS - ICT Technician Oxford Spires Academy
abilities. For example, the PSHE
MOBILE DEVICE SUPPORT Record and upload your videos
View Planet eStream content natively from the web browser on your mobile device. Schedule Freeview TV and radio recordings using our mobile EPG. Watch live broadcasts streamed from your Planet eStream system. Watch and search on demand. Control your digital signage content
Add content to your Planet eStream media archive from iOS or Android tablets and smartphones.
using our mobile interface.
Browse your existing camera roll or record new material and upload your videos with the Planet eStream mobile application.
Access to our fantastic and bespoke online tools is enabled by the use of Google Chromebooks to replace our
Upload photographs from your
current Galaxy Tablet scheme. As we
mobile device into Planet eStream
realise this vision Planet eStream is an
Photosets.
essential part of it. Without this tool we
Available to download free of charge
would be unable to offer video on ‘all’
from Google Play and the Apple App Store.
devices in the consistent and easily accessible way we intend.
PHIL SPOORS- Assistant Head Teacher Cramlington Learning Village
INTEGRATION We play nicely with others
Planet eStream is embedded in our
We have a strong focus on developing our
teaching and learning with links to the
virtual learning environment on an
player from our student and staff
ongoing basis so that it meets the needs
intranet. We are now able to provide an
of staff and pupils alike. We are also keen
efficient means to find clips from
to make sure the VLE is effectively
programmes and compile these into
integrated with our physical learning
playlists. Links are then embedded into
environment. Planet eStream enables us
our Moodle courses so tutors can direct
to do this and, from the first time we saw
learners to specific research.
the system in action, we had no doubt we were looking at the right solution.
KEITH LLOYD- Learning Technologies and Support Co-Ordinator Leeds City College
ROBERT BERRY- Head of ICT Royal Grammar School Worcester
VIDEO ASSESSMENT Submit, grade and feedback
Provide a secure platform for your students to showcase their coursework. Empower your students to demonstrate their skills by using Planet eStream’s simple mobile application to create and upload their videos. Develop your students’ transferrable skills via the application of video to demonstrate practical and academic skills and development. Share good practice and monitor
Transform your assessment process with Planet eStream.
progression.
Enable secure and private upload of video and audio material via PCs and mobile devices.
Unbelievably brilliant, You seem to be
Share material privately with tutors,
enhances the students’ experience as
peers or external assessors who can add their time stamped comments and feedback.
as driven to ensure that technology we are. Working with you feels like a real partnership and the students are the beneficiaries.
View graded work and jump straight to comments and feedback via your own secure area.
ALICIA McCONNELL- Head of Learning Technology University of East Anglia
LECTURE AND CLASSROOM CAPTURE User created content to empower teaching and learning
Applications... Record practical skills sessions for on demand reference via Planet eStream and your learning platform. Create high quality video training material from a variety of sources
Capture lectures and lessons effectively with Planet eStream’s powerful Lecture Capture Toolkit. Select your device and your source,
including screen capture. Flip your classroom with ease by creating engaging tutorials for your students.
then hit ‘start’ for a simple user experience. Stream your lectures and lessons live plus record and archive them for on
We have a strong record of sourcing high
demand access 24/7.
quality guest speakers for our students and Planet eStream gives us the opportunity to re-use this contextualised, valuable and inspirational
Now that we have the Planet eStream
content for future students. For some of
system, we are seeing an explosion of
our higher profile speakers, we can also
creativity from our lecturers as they
stream the content live on our website
expand their delivery online and use the
which obviously has a high marketing
time freed to really engage with their
potential for our college.
students in face to face time. ALICIA McCONNELL- Head of Learning Technology University of East Anglia
NEIL PRIOR - Head of eLearning Berkshire College of Agriculture
LESSON OBSERVATION Discreet classroom monitoring
Teaching and coaching staff use Planet eStream to display and share videos with examples of good practice so users can be confident they are getting the correct information from a trusted source. NAOMI ELLIOTT- Head of Library and eLearning Resources City of Bath College
Observe classroom activity and behaviour for security and control. Monitor teaching performance and delivery of lessons for mentoring and coaching. Comment on performance live in Planet eStream, including automatic time stamping functionality, enabling teachers to reference feedback to the exact point in the video where the comment was made.
The College has recorded a range of teachers delivering outstanding lessons and uploaded them to Planet eStream, so that other teachers can view good practice in action.
Share best practice amongst teaching staff for CPD.
ROBERT HUTTON - LTU Manager Barnsley College