Information for Students

You have taken the podcast class and would now like to submit your podcast to this website? Follow these instructions:

Making an Account 

Write the student assistant (suemeyye.coskun@hhu.de) the email-address of the person in your group who will upload your podcast. This person will then receive the log-in details and will able to access the Oralpods dashboard.

Submitting your Podcast

  1. On your dashboard, navigate to “Podcasting” → “Add New Episode”.
  2. Give your podcast episode a descriptive title. 
  3. In the main text area, enter a short description of the contents of your podcast (2-3 sentences). You may upload an image as well. To do this, enter the space key and click on the “+” symbol, and then select “Image”. From there on, upload your image and adjust the sizing via the (??). This image should be the same as the “Featured Image” (read further instructions).
  4. Scroll down to “Episode Details”. 
  5. Select your audio file.
    • Your podcast must be an mp3 file.
    • Please make sure your file name is as according to the following pattern before you upload it: SEMESTER-YEAR_LECTURER_YOURNAME, such as for example: WS-201314_habot_jan.mp3
    • Please do not use special characters or umlauts in the file name, as these may cause problems. If your name contains an umlaut, write, for example, ä as ae. 
  6. Do NOT upload an episode image. This is already automatically set.
  7. In the top right corner, select “Settings”.
  8. Please upload a featured image. Navigate to “Upload Media” and upload an image that represents the content of your podcast.
    • Be careful not to infringe rights of others. Only use photos which are in the public domain, to which you have the rights, or which are licensed under creative commons. You can find free stock photos on a variety of pages, e.g. Stock Photos That Don’t Suck, unsplash or by searching flickr.com for photos with the License “Creative Commons”.
    • Please rename your file according to the following pattern before you upload it: SEMESTER-YEAR_LECTURER_YOURNAME, such as for example: WS-201314_habot_jan.png
    • The image should be in square format.
  9. Scroll down to “All Podcast”. Select the semester during which you took the class (the latest semesters are at the very end). If your semester does not appear, notify your lecturers. (You may also add your podcast for a past semester if it is not on the website yet, but please send an email to oral@phil.hhu.de and ask to have it published with a corrected date.)
  10. Check your spelling, grammar and file name, and then, finally, click on “Submit for Review”. Make sure that you do not write your full name anywhere to ensure no issues with data protection occure. Only use your first name or an alias. 
  11. Your lecturer will have to approve your submission before it appears on the website.