Streaming Video

Technology Solutions and Services works with Fondren Library to provide streaming films for your courses in Canvas. The Fondren Library Film Guide is a helpful resource for finding films already available through the library's streaming services.

How the process works

  1. Submit a request. To begin, complete the Video Request Form (NetID login required) with the films you plan to use. Together with Fondren Library, we will determine whether a streaming option is available or whether permission can be granted to digitize the video. If we need anything from you, we will contact you with next steps.

    Please allow two to four weeks for processing. During the week before and the first three weeks of the semester, processing can take more than four weeks.

  2. We add your films to Canvas. When your films are ready, we will email you and add a page titled [Semester] Course Media to your Canvas course with links to all of your films. The page stays unpublished until you review it and publish it for your students. For help with Canvas, contact teaching@rice.edu.

  3. Resubmit each semester. Streaming licenses are temporary, so please submit a new request each semester you plan to use a film.

What can be digitized?

When other streaming options are not available, we can digitize very short clips of DVDs and videos for classroom use. Due to U.S. copyright law:

  • Only a lawfully made copy owned by the course instructor or by Fondren Library can be digitized.
  • We cannot digitize content that is easily available on commercial streaming platforms such as Netflix, or content that is widely available for purchase.
  • InterLibrary Loan and rental materials cannot be digitized, either in full or as clips.
  • Accepted formats are Blu-ray, DVD, and VHS tape.

While we digitize Fondren Library media, you can request a longer-than-standard checkout period at the circulation desk or renew the item online. English-language videos are digitized with English subtitles by default. If you need a video without subtitles, please note this in your request.

Questions?

Contact Teaching & Learning Technologies at teaching@rice.edu.