Planet eStream is a powerfully simple and secure video platform, making media more accessible and engaging for students and educators across secondary, further, and higher education.
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A secure and sophisticated digital asset management platform that streamlines the creation, management and delivery of media content to your key stakeholders.
A central platform for schools that supports multiple digital media technologies, including digital signage, classroom capture, digital asset management, video-based learning resources and more...
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Planet eStream is a video platform that supports multiple aspects of digital media delivery in education. Features are broken down to provide a flexible modular platform, enabling you to build a solution that fits your exact requirements.
Additional feature modules can be added at any time, providing a cost-effective solution to grow with your ongoing digital media provision.
Create your own 'YouTube' style digital library and provide educators with dedicated tools to increase student engagement. With support for video, images, audio and documents, Planet eStream is the ideal platform for securely storing and managing your organisation's digital resources.
The built-in toolset delivers everything educators need to create engaging video-based learning resources, including the creation of interactive videos with quiz style questions.
Simple and powerful granular permissions structure allows you to control the availability of tools and content to specific users or groups.
Built-in auto transcription tools include a free service powered by Mozilla DeepSpeech or options to use third-party transcription providers for greater accuracy and support for other languages.
Our Microsoft Teams App enables users to share digital resources within their Teams workflow, you can also easily upload and store recorded Teams meetings to your Planet eStream video platform.
In addition to automatic transcription services, users can create subtitles, edit existing transcriptions and upload or download subtitle files.
Planet eStream offers a wide selection of intuitive tools that assist educators to streamline the integration of video content into teaching and learning resources and increase student engagement.
Perfect for presenting and discussing media with a class or group remotely, including options for adding polls and questions.
Add active learning elements such as questions to videos - a simple mechanism for testing and tracking student progress.
Highlight essential sections of videos at the click of a button, guide viewers with accompanying written commentary, and include downloadable resources to create a simple and effective student journey.
An excellent tool for quickly creating videos without the need for dedicated recording software.
Create video-based learning resources by combining clips from multiple videos, edit your videos and remove adverts or unwanted sections from TV recordings.
All media stored on your Planet eStream video platform can be shared easily using built-in web links, embed codes, and dedicated integrations with learning platforms.
A scalable and cost-effective capture solution, ideal for live streaming, recording and archiving of lectures and lessons.
Schools, colleges and universities benefit from features designed to streamline and enhance teaching and learning, including multiple input support (cameras, whiteboards etc.), voice transcription services, room indicators, Office 365 Calendar integration, and much more.
Autonomous hardware makes deployment simple and eliminates the requirement for educators to set up and start streams – enabling them to focus on delivering their lessons and lectures.
Intuitive tools provide a hassle-free solution for delivering live broadcasts of key events, such as shows, performances, key-note speeches, sporting events, graduations, and more.
Enhance the digital learning provision of your VLE or LMS with dedicated plugins that allow users to seamlessly browse, embed and upload media from within your learning platform. Planet eStream also offers integrations with leading library management systems and management information systems, as well as technical integrations for AD, LDAP, Azure, SAML2/Shibboleth, SSO etc.
Record the latest TV and radio programmes from over 80 TV, Radio, and Satellite channels, all channels are cached for up to 21 days, plus you can also set up series links for your favourites!
Browse and add content from our growing library of over 2 million TV Programmes, Radio Shows and Films.
Search and add content from the BBC Digital and Shakespeare Archives to your Planet eStream video library.
Create screen designs with multiple media sources, including videos, social media feeds, photos, calendar information, message boards and more.
Digital signage administrators can easily manage content, schedules and displays from anywhere
Grow your digital signage provision without increasing licence costs
Integrations make it easy to pull content from your other platforms such as MIS, LMS and social media
Our powerful screen designer tool allows you to bring together a wide variety of content in your screen layouts, including...
Create Galleries, Collections and Lightboxes to manage, share, display and work collaboratively
Take advantage of AI-assisted searching, geo-tagging and digital consent forms when managing your images
Uploading images is a simple process and can be achieved from any device – this makes it easy for users to quickly upload their images from any location – all popular image formats including PNG, JPEG, TIFF, EPS, PSD and RAW are supported.
Our AI engine identifies objects contained within images; this enables us to offer a fantastic assisted search option to help users find specific content within their ever growing image library.
Classify images using your own custom tagging structure and camera EXIF data
Share and embed Galleries into websites and other platforms using built-in share links and embed codes.
Planet eStream includes tools and features that benefit everyone working with video and digital media content. Check out the benefits Planet eStream offers your team...
We have compiled a collection of short video clips created by members of our community. These provide great, real-life examples of how Planet eStream is supporting organisations across all levels of education.
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How long does it take to set up Planet eStream?
Your Planet eStream platform can be up and running within 24-48 hours. Our team will then run through a complete technical handover with your technical team, including platform admin set up, user permissions and integrations/authentication configuration.
Is Planet eStream a Cloud platform?
Yes, although we also offer a locally-hosted option for those wishing to host their platform on their local infrastructure.
How much does Planet eStream cost?
The cost of Planet eStream depends on the feature modules you require and your organisation type. The best way to get an accurate price is to email sales@planetestream.co.uk and with an outline of your requirements.
How many digital signage screens does Planet eStream support?
Our school licence has no limit to the number of screens.
Can I have more than one piece of content on my signage screen?
Yes. You can add videos, photo galleries, social media feeds, messages and much more to your digital signage designs. You can also create schedules to show different content at different times of the day.
How many lecture theatres, classrooms or rooms can I capture from?
Our education licences have no limit to the number of rooms you can record or stream from.
Can I live stream?
Absolutely. With Planet eStream, lectures, lessons and events can be streamed live and simultaneously recorded for people to view on-demand at a later time.
What hardware do I need for lecture, lesson and event capture?
At a minimum, you will need a camera, with a compatible IP output, and a microphone. We do offer some off-the-shelf hardware options here, but you may be able to utilise the equipment you already have. Feel free to talk to our friendly team about what hardware you will need sales@planetestream.co.uk
Does Planet eStream integrate with my learning platform / VLE?
Yes, we have integrations with many learning platforms. See the complete list here.
Can I store Photos on Planet eStream?
Absolutely. Planet eStream event has a dedicated module for image and photo management, read more about our photo module.
Can students watch videos on Planet eStream?
Yes. However, the built-in permissions let you control what videos they can watch.
Can I make interactive videos?
Yes, there is a powerful built-in toolset to add interactivity to your videos.
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