Making a Screencast Recording

Virtual Teaching ResourcesScreen Capture Making a Screencast Recording
projector and a screen drawing

A screencast recording consists of displayed materials and you talking along with it. You can make your own screencast recording, then make it available to your students anytime. See suggested methods below.

 

PowerPoint-

You can record a PowerPoint presentation easily, either from a PC or Mac. Once recorded, you will need to upload it to a server for your students to view.

Microsoft PowerPoint icon

PC-

  • Open your PowerPoint presentation. Makes sure that you have a microphone connected (laptop computers generally have a built-in microphone).
  • Click on Slide Show, then select Record Slide Show. Click on Start Recording.
pop-up question about PowerPoint show.
 

Once the recording starts, you can advance to each slide, talking as you go. There will be a small counter in the upper left-hand side of the screen signifying that a recording is being made.

PowerPoint Timer
 
  • Once done, you should go back and play the presentation from the beginning, to hear the audio that was recorded and to check the volume level and check for clarity.
 
Screenshot of exporting PowerPoint.
  • Select File then Export to open up choices. Choose Create a Video.
  • Click on the Create Video small icon, then determine where to save the recording. The finished recording will be an .mp4 file.
 

Mac–

With some exceptions, you can record, save and export your PowerPoint slides with audio as an mp4 file. Follow the instructions shown above for recording and exporting the finished recording.

Note: PowerPoint 2016 for a Mac does NOT support saving in a video format.

 

iOS devices (iPad or iPhone)–

Both devices can record and you can narrate as well. See this info from Apple:

  1. Go to Settings > Control Center > Customize Controls, then tap  next to Screen Recording.
  2. Swipe up from the bottom edge of any screen. On iPhone X or later or iPad with iOS 12 or later, or iPadOS, swipe down from the upper-right corner of the screen.
  3. Press deeply on gray record icon and tap Microphone.
  4. Tap Start Recording, then wait for the three-second countdown. 
  5. Open Control Center and tap red record icon. Or tap the red status bar at the top of your screen and tap Stop.

Go to the Photos app and select your screen recording.

animation for controls on an iPhone
 

Upload a mp4 file-

There are many options available to upload mp4 files for student viewing:

  • uploading a Zoom recording
  • upload via Echo360
  • upload via OneDrive/Dropbox
 

Upload a Zoom recording–

If you have used Zoom for a class, you can record the meeting within Zoom, which will produce several files, stored on your computer (or in the cloud). A choice for recording must be made ahead of time.

 

By default, the audio/video file (MP4) will be named zoom_0.mp4.

 

With that file in mind, follow one of the next two sections…

 

Upload via Echo360–

Login to Echo 360 [https://echo360.org], with your UML credentials.  Please follow the following tutorial for the rest:

note: Please alert classroomtech@uml.edu if your have trouble logging in.

 

Upload  via OneDrive or Dropbox–

A different way to send files to us would be to use OneDrive (https://onedrive.uml.edu/) or DropBox (https://www.dropbox.com/). Please send them to classroomtech@uml.edu with pertinent information such as Course name and number, plus any other info that would be helpful.