HOW TO: Generate a description for a presentation

Each Mediasite presentation offers a field where you can write a brief description of the presentation's content. A well-crafted description of the presentation helps viewers quickly understand the purpose and value of the Mediasite video, often providing context, setting expectations for learning outcomes, and improving discoverability within the searchable Mediasite channels.

Mediasite includes a generative artificial intelligence (AI) tool to help you create a video presentation description.

Prerequisite: closed captions

The AI tool generates a summary from a presentation's captions. Therefore, you should ensure captions for the presentation exist before using the tool and that they have been edited for accuracy, as accurate captions will result in an accurate summary.

The Captions tile appears below the presentation title in My Mediasite indicating captions are present

Learn more about closed captions in Mediasite

Create a description using the Generate Summary tool

Note: The Generate Summary tool will remove any existing description. To discard the generated description and retain the existing one, select Cancel from the top-right instead of saving the new description.

From within the list of presentations in your My Mediasite portal, select the name of the presentation for which you wish to add a description. A summary of the presentation will appear.
Select Edit Details in the right column. Options for editing the presentation will appear.
Within the Information tab, select Generate Summary adjacent to the Description field. After a few moments, an AI generated summary will appear.
Make any desired edits to the generated summary. One suggested edit is to remove "Generated by Enghouse AI" from the end of the summary.
Select Save at the top-right.