jc1875 Posted April 15, 2009 Posted April 15, 2009 How does ClickView work in terms of computers that are not connected to the domain? You can password protect individual recordings, or you can export (via the player) to your 'school bag' and watch on any PC that has the player software (freely available on the clickview downloads site). We're (going to be) using the school bag option for remote sites that we dont want to flood the connection to. Does this software really tax the network or is it quite efficient? As above, its done in short bursts (pre-loads the next chapter). Also for a classroom scenario - you can setup a PC as the 'lesson' server. PCs in the same suite then connect to the lesson server rather than the main server to get the video etc 1
libelle Posted April 29, 2009 Posted April 29, 2009 Hello, I've just signed up specifically to post in this thread. I'm an AV technican at a school in Sydney, we've been using Clickview for years, and I'd love to start a dialogue with other users. There was an upgrade recently that appears to have introduced subject tagging, and exporting user statistics to excel, however I can't actually make this work in practice.
stzky Posted May 19, 2012 Posted May 19, 2012 Clickview is basically a shared folder - accessed by different schools. Try MythTV, Open Source DVR streaming.co.uk planetestream.co.uk or even bobinternational.net
SYNACK Posted May 19, 2012 Posted May 19, 2012 Clickview is basically a shared folder - accessed by different schools. Try MythTV, Open Source DVR streaming.co.uk planetestream.co.uk or even bobinternational.net Rubbish, clickview is a streaming video server based on the WMV streaming system. It holds the video data in specially encoded files that are indexed by a database that allows tagging, note taking and attaching of file based resources like word or PDF documents. It also has a remote client that organises all of this into an easy searchable interface that handles the reviving and playback of the files and syncing videos remotely so that users don't need to be on the network to watch them. We use it at one school and while expencive comes with a lot of resources, support and easy interfaces to allow teachers to actually work the thing. It can also integrate into our library system so that video resources are also indexed there and searchable through the same interface and so easy to find.
brewerd Posted May 23, 2012 Posted May 23, 2012 Clickview is a great teaching tool, not only can it serve video files, in a network friendly way, it can give access to resources specific to certain videos, create lesson plans involving videos, audio, images and documents. There are a vast array of videos available through the exchange, and media store. It might not be the best fit for all schools but if you have a large collection of video resources its definitely worth at least a look. The hardware can be a bit pricey for what it does, the 24/7 and live boxes are very useful but not worth the cash in my opinion. The whole thing is designed for schools, so from a teacher POV its great, easy to use, search and can even edit and export videos for use on VLE's and powerpoint presentations. Also finally, the support i've had from ClickView has been beyond brilliant.
BJG Posted May 23, 2012 Posted May 23, 2012 +1 for Clickview, not cheap but works well and popular with teachers. We haven't purchased any of the video libraries but there's a ton of stuff available in the "Clickview Exchange"... http://exchange.clickview.co.uk/
James_S Posted May 29, 2012 Posted May 29, 2012 Out of curiousity, How did you manage to get clickview out there with teachers We are currently rolling clickview out, but i notice half the teachers dont even know about clickview and they didn't even notice the icon on the desktop. Also the clickview exchange getting teacher firmilia with that or does that come with time.
RTFM Posted May 30, 2012 Posted May 30, 2012 ClickView do free support and training if you want them to come in and do it Just speak to your account manager and maybe try organise it between them and staff? We offered it generally to staff but also to heads of department and this allowed them to filter training down to staff.......
James_S Posted June 14, 2012 Posted June 14, 2012 I have another query, How do you allow staff to setup lesson plans in your school without the Clickview Management?
ClickViewDanny Posted June 19, 2012 Posted June 19, 2012 Hi James, If you ever want to call the office press 2 for tech support and we're always happy to run through things on the phone. The number is 01223 327926. Or as has been suggested above there's no charge if you'd like your Regional Manager to visit and conduct some training. Danny
Edu-IT Posted June 26, 2012 Posted June 26, 2012 For those using ClickView, what sort of server spec do you have to run it all?
SYNACK Posted June 27, 2012 Posted June 27, 2012 (edited) For those using ClickView, what sort of server spec do you have to run it all? Just an old dual, dual core P4 level Xeon. It is quite light comparitivly, storage piped into a san and dual gb nics and we have never managed to make it sweat. The main thing is the storage throughput, there is not transcoding or anything so it is just a lightweight DB and a bunch of files to stream. The important thing is having the room and the speed in the storage subsystem, a small school could probably manage with sata but SAS would be better. Unless you are scaling massivly you don't need much more. Edited June 27, 2012 by SYNACK
ClickViewDanny Posted June 27, 2012 Posted June 27, 2012 Hi Edu-IT, Our minimum and recommended specs for all parts of our system are available on our website here: ClickView - the digital video solution for schools I've seen machines with lower specs than we've listed here happily running ClickView Library Server, but obviously should there be any sort of performance issue and the spec didn't at least meet our minimum recommended we'd firstly suggest that the server is brought up to standard. But we're happy for users to run ClickView Library Server on any Windows machine as long as they understand the drawbacks should it not meet our minimum spec. Danny
fiza Posted June 27, 2012 Posted June 27, 2012 @ClickViewDanny - Will ClickView run on a virtual server?
ClickViewDanny Posted June 27, 2012 Posted June 27, 2012 Yes it will happily run on a virtual server, a number of schools are set up with a virtual server and it's fully supported. 1
RTFM Posted June 27, 2012 Posted June 27, 2012 Yes it will happily run on a virtual server, a number of schools are set up with a virtual server and it's fully supported. *raises hand* We have it running on a virtual 2008r2 server with no problems 1
fiza Posted June 27, 2012 Posted June 27, 2012 @ClickViewDanny - Thats good news. I want to virtualise our existing install.
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