User Guides and Resources
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User Guides
Apple Education - iTunes U User's Guide
Complete Guide - excerpts below
iTunes U Link in Online@UT: A How-To Guide
Access iTunes U course areas directly from Online@UT
ITC's UTK on iTunes U self-paced tutorial
Online@UT's Tip of the Month: iTunes U
Using the iPod Touch to Access iTunes U
Copyright Resources
UTK Metadata Guidelines
Metadata Standards
Each file needs to be tagged with metadata (file information). The title, author, description, and keywords tags are the fields that iTunes indexes for search. This will ensure that our audience knows where the podcast came from.
- Name is for the track's title. "October 19 Lecture" maybe too vague where as "History of Space Evolution " is more descriptive.
For example: Space Stuff Lecture Series <96> part 2
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Album should include Course or category title.
For example: AGEX 360: Foundations of Agricultural Theory
- Artist is for the Instructor or speaker name. If the class has a guest speaker, use Artist for the guest speaker and Album Artist for the Instructor.
For example: Professor Smith would be the
Album Artist (optional) or you can use the Department or Organization name. For example: Dr. Skinner or Media Productions at UTK would both be suitable, just be consistent.
- Genre should be The University of Tennessee and is set by default.
- Comments are for any additional information such as assignment details, upload information, historical background, or description.
For example: Dr. Skinner discusses the evolution of space stuff from the big bang to modern exploration, recorded in a series of visiting lectures by the Media Productions department at The University of Tennessee.
Comments are searchable by keyword, so be sure to include all relevant information about your track and what is included in your description section of your course.
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Grouping should be used to add any keywords to the file. Please limit to no more than 12 keywords.
For example: big bang, outer space, space exploration, utk.
NOTE: iTunes U does not allow you to change all of the metadata fields once a track has been uploaded. You will need to fix locally and re-upload. For more information on how to update metadata, click link below.
How to Update Metadata
iTunes U does not allow you to change all of the metadata fields once a track has been uploaded. You will need to download the track to your iTunes Library and upload again after your changes are made.
- Log on to iTunes U at itunesu.utk.edu.
- Locate your course.
- Select Get Tracks to download all tracks or locate your existing copies locally.
- Once downloaded, locate tracks in your iTunes library.
- From the File menu, select Get Info.
NOTE: You can also right click on the track name and select Get Info or press Command I on your keyboard.
- Edit the Metadata.
- Re-Upload tracks to iTunes U.
- Delete old tracks.
Hint: Save time by selecting multiple tracks when fixing Artist and Album info.
