Uploading a File to QMplus Media (Students and Staff)

Introduction [edit]

Everyone has a My Media area on QMplus where they can upload video content. The content in this area is completely private to you until you choose to share it with others. If you are a member of staff, you might embed your videos into your QMplus module areas to share with your students. If you are a student, your lecturer might ask you to submit your video as an assignment or you might embed your video into a QMplus Hub page.

Note: we assume that you already have the video file that you want to upload and that you are uploading from a desktop or laptop computer. It is also possible to upload videos from mobile phones, please see our guide on using the QMplus Media app  (linked to old website will need updating) for that.

Video guidance [edit]

We have created a video guide to demonstrate how to upload files to QMplus Media.

Step by Step Guidance  [edit]

Please click into to this sub page to explore step by step guidance on uploading files to QMplus Media: Step by Step Guidance

Tips for uploading video [edit]

As we have highlighted throughout this guide, there are a number of things you need to be aware of:

• Try to produce video files that are as small as possible. Does the video need to be in high resolution? If not, use a lower resolution and you will get a smaller file size.
• Uploading video files can take a long time. This depends on the size of the file and your internet connection speed. Uploading files to the internet is always slower than downloading them. As a rough guide, the average broadband upload speed (at the time of writing) is around 6Mbps, uploading a 100MB file at this speed would take roughly 2 and a half minutes. Uploading a 1GB file would take around 30 minutes.
• Uploading the file is only one part of the process. You need to ensure that the file you have uploaded then processes successfully. Processing errors are rare but can happen. Allow yourself plenty of time to upload your file and ensure it processes successfully particularly if your video is going to be used as part of an assessment.