Instructional Media Center: Video Streaming for Classroom Use

Kanopy offers a broad selection of over 26,000 documentaries, feature films, and training videos covering a variety of academic disciplines.

The collection includes a number of leading producers such as: Criterion Collection, New Day Films, The Great Courses, First Run Features, BBC, and many more.

• All currently licensed Kanopy videos will continue to be available to LIU faculty, students, and administrators on the Kanopy website: https://liu.kanopy.com/.

• Please log in directly with the link provided for on campus use. If you log in remotely to the Kanopy database (or any library database), please use your liu email username and password and not your library card. Be sure to indicate if you are a student or staff/faculty. This is very important.

• To access from the library homepage, click on Databases A-Z. In the alphabetic index list, and search under K for Kanopy.

• All Kanopy videos that are not already licensed will need to be requested in advance. When you try to play a film in Kanopy that is not already licensed, you will be presented with a pop-up form to request access. Please fill out this form. Once the request is approved by the library, you will be and given a link to the streaming video. This link can be easily copied and pasted to your Blackboard.

The Request Form for Kanopy

Figure 1. Screenshot of a Kanopy request form, with "This film is not available at your library yet - don't be dismayed!

Complete the form below to request the film from your library." Fields for a full name and email address are also included, with buttons to select "How would you describe yourself" with options for "Librarian," "Academic," "Student," and "Other."

There is a blank text box for "Your Message" to tell your library why you are requesting this video. There is also a button to send the form, with a link to a privacy commitment.

What to include in the form:

The form will ask for your name, email address, and how you would describe yourself.  Instructors should select “Academic.”

In the message box please include the following information:

• Name of campus: LIU Post or LIU Brooklyn

• The course number for the class in which you will be using this title.  For example, ENG 786 or CHS 345.
• The date on which students will need to view the film.

The request form from LIU Post faculty is sent to the media librarian at LIU Post Library – Maria.Zarycky@liu.edu

The request form for LIU Brooklyn faculty is sent to librarian at LIU Brooklyn Library – Patricia.Keogh@liu.edu

Films on Demand (FOD) is accessible to all LIU Post faculty and administrators. The database includes the Master Academic Collection, consisting of 25,208 documentary, educational and independent film titles. This video database has more than 700 distinct areas of study within more than 25 core subject areas designed to mirror the academic curriculum. Producers include: PBS, National Geographic, California Newsreel, Annenberg Lerner, TED, and others.

• Films on Demand can be accessed from the LIU Post campus, or remotely from home using your liu email username and password.  Please see the Help section of the database for information on using some of its features.

https://fod.infobase.com/PortalPlayLists.aspx?wid=105205