Steps to sharing your students’ podcasts publicly:

Step 1: Encourage your students to either use their own sound/music in their podcast or to use sound/music in the public domain or released with a creative commons license. This link offers more information about copyright and links to repositories of usable media files.

Step 2: Request permission from your students to share their work publicly. Prior to asking them for permission, make sure they know a few things:

• Where their podcasts will be published (For example, on a Macalester website? on Spotify?)
• They have the option of saying “no” and that this option will not impact their grade in any way.
• They have the option of publishing their work anonymously. Again, this option will not impact their grade in any way.

You might decide you would like to create an agreement form for your students to sign. Or, you might ask for their permission in an email.

Step 3: Upload the podcasts to your preferred location. The best location for the podcasts will depend on your accessibility preferences. For example, you may want to publish the podcasts on your own website as a media file, or you may want to publish on Spotify.

Steps to sharing your students’ podcasts privately:

Google Drive is probably the best option for sharing your podcasts just with a class or with members of the Macalester community. You can share a link to the podcasts in Moodle, if you have a Moodle page. With Google Drive, you have the option of restricting access to the files.