Teaching with Video

If you are wanting to record any type of video with yourself or anything outside of what's happening on your screen, a web camera (aka webcam) is required. Most laptops/mobile devices have built-in cameras, but if your device or home setup doesn't have one then you'll need to acquire an external USB camera.

These simply plug into a computer and work without installing/configuring and are often much better quality than built-in peripherals! Visit the link below to find a wide range of webcams with differing levels of features and form factors, all of which would pass as a recommendation.

Recommended Web Camera

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A microphone captures your voice and/or audio and records the audio into your project or video application. Naturally, if you're planning on recording anything with voice or audio, you'll want to have a microphone. Most laptops/mobile devices have built-in microphones, but if your device or home setup doesn't have one then you'll need to acquire an external USB microphone.

These simply plug into a computer and work without installing/configuring anything and are often much better quality than built-in peripherals! Visit the link below to find a wide range of microphones with differing levels of features and form factors, all of which would pass as a recommendation.

Recommended Microphones

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If you're using a camera to record yourself or a subject, you'll need good lighting and an understanding of how to adjust the camera! Below, you'll find some simple techniques listed to take advantage of your hardware and environment.

Camera tips

• Angling your camera in meetings or recordings is important and can convey the same effect as in-person, non-verbal behavior. Check out this video on 12 different angles to enhance your video.
• If you're using your computer's webcam and want a different angle, consider purchasing a Tripod.

Lighting

• While there are many tips and tricks to control lighting conditions, this four-minute video explains the various types of lighting and conditions that are optimal for video conferencing and recording.

When you have your video or audio files created, you'll need to have a transcription or closed captioned (CC) version available to be in accessibility compliance. Outside of accessibility, CC is incredibly important to non-disability reporting individuals.

Many of the tools on this page have Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) features that generate closed captions, but keep in mind that "machine-transcribed audio" isn't perfect and might not always be ADA compliant. This is not to discourage you from using these services, but some instructional terms might be very specific and not rendered correctly. Something to keep in mind depending on its use.

To get as clean a transcription as possible, make sure the audio track is clean of extraneous noise by leveraging some of the editing tools below and their audio editing tools. That means low-noise background music, loud sounds, or muffled speech. You can always manually create a transcription, but it might not be generated automatically or require extensive editing.

Prior to recording or hosting online courses, please review UIW's Teleconferencing and Recording Policy with the link below. The purpose of this policy is to govern the use of the recording and privacy functions in teleconferencing applications. These applications include, but are not limited to Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and RingCentral Meetings.

Teleconferencing and Recording Policy

When preparing videos, instructors will need to make videos based on three common scenarios.

• Video with no webcam (instructor view) view and only on-screen content
  • Good for focused instructional videos, with no video feed to distract students from the content
• Video with both a webcam (instructor) view andon-screen content
  • Good for more lecture-oriented videos, or videos that require a reason to see the instructor.
• Video with a webcam (instructor) view and no on-screen content
  • Good for personal videos, perhaps a format where there is no instructional content, and the instructor is speaking directly to students on a topic.

'On-screen content' is created by using a program to perform a screen capture, which is the process of a program or tool recording what's happening on your computer screen. This is an essential concept when preparing instructional material for both asynchronous and synchronous purposes. Most of the listed programs have the capability of capturing audio, too, but mainly specialize in recording your screen.

Camtasia is a piece of recording software that can capture both what is on the screen and your webcam while recording audio for a project. Users can quickly start/stop a screen recording with voiceover work and export it as a video file to move anywhere. The screen recording tool in Camtasia is easy to learn and offers a low learning curve.

To learn more about getting started with Camtasia and resources to learn the program, find the 'Camtasia' tile on the Available Software page below.

Available Software for Faculty and Staff

If you already have Camtasia installed, check out their tutorials page to jump right into the video recording process

Camtasia Tutorials

Canvas Studio is a media tool that allows students and instructors to upload, create, edit, manage, share, and discuss audio and video files. Existing files can be used, or new ones can be created with Studio's capture and editing tools. For recording purposes, some notable features are as follows:

• Video recordings can be created with screen capture, webcam, or both.
• Users can upload existing video files to their studio library.
• Canvas Studio has a robust set of tools for adding captions, which can be added in multiple languages.
• The quiz tool exists to insert questions into your videos, which can be graded items that push right to the grade book.

To learn more about Canvas Studio, you can view the entire guide on Instructure's website. For more specific guides to get started:

• What is Canvas Studio?
• How do I use Canvas Studio in a course?
• How do I record my screen with Canvas Studio?

echo360 is exclusive to the Health Professions Schools (HPS) and is a lecture capture tool that allows HPS faculty to record video lectures for students and offer them online (through shared links and via Canvas) at any time. The echo360 application isn't limited to just lectures, though. Instructors can use it to record more than one input side-by-side in the same video! echo360 offers some engagement tools and can produce recorded videos from live lectures, offering flexibility in how and when your course can be viewed.

To learn more about echo360 including features, downloads, and how to get started... find the 'echo360' tile on the Available Software page below.

Available Software for Faculty and Staff

Microsoft Stream is an enterprise video service that enables all UIW faculty and staff to upload, view, and share videos securely. While using a compatible browser, Stream allows you to record your screen for up to 15 minutes, and directly upload the recording to your Stream library/class channel. Additionally, some basic editing capabilities allow you to trim the video's start and finish points.

To learn more about getting started with Stream, find the 'Microsoft Stream' tile on the Available Software page below.

Available Software for Faculty and Staff

If you are already acquiesced to Stream, learn how to record your computer's screen, and directly upload the recording to Stream with the link below.

Recording with Microsoft Stream

Teams is a video conferencing tool at heart, however, it's a platform for building and collaborating with communities across UIW. Like Zoom, Teams can record any meeting content and store the recording within the host's personal OneDrive or the shared OneDrive of the Team meeting.

Get started with Microsoft's guide on recording meetings and content with Teams below.

Start to Finish: Recording Content in Teams

Open Broadcaster Software, or OBS, is a free and open-source solution for offline video recording that is both Mac and Windows compatible. Recording is easy with OBS, as it can record straight to your device using a 'record only' mode while choosing the video/audio options you want to have recorded.

To learn more about this tool and to get started with recording your content, check out the links below.

• Get OBS
• OBS Help/FAQ

Macs have an application called Screenshot built-in which allows you to capture Screenshot and screen recordings with or without audio and save them immediately. Users can simply press the shortcut SHIFT+CMD+5 on their keyboard to open the app up or search 'Screenshot' within the search bar in the upper right of their Mac's screen.

To learn more about the Screenshot functionality for Macs, view the user guide on Apple's website below.

Screenshot for Mac Guide

Zoom is a video conferencing tool at heart but can also record entire meetings to your local device or on the cloud. These recordings capture the meeting's various video feeds, shared content (screens, windows, apps, etc.), separate audio, chat files, and closed captioning services.

If you'd like to edit a meeting in any fashion, these recordings can easily be taken into any tool within the 'Editing' section of this page before you save or share them with the world.

To learn more about Zoom and recording with the software, find the 'Recording Meetings' section towards the bottom of the link below.

All About Zoom

Once you have the recordings that you want to use, you may need to make some edits. Not everything can be/has to be finished in one take, so it might be beneficial to record multiple takes of a long recording and piece them together afterward. The most common tasks instructors might need to edit a video involve:

• Adjusting the volume of the audio in their video.
• Removing background noise from a recording.
• Splice two or more video recordings together to make a single cohesive video.
• Trim the start or end of a recording and/or cut out small clips where mistakes were made.

Below are some options that are available to some and/or all UIW personnel. These tools will meet any combination of knowledge, hardware, budget, or skills that you might or might not bring to the table and should provide at least one video editing solution.

Premiere Rush is Adobe's simpler, consumer-level editing program that's a much more friendly version of Premiere Pro (see below). Rush is available on all platforms including mobile devices as dedicated apps and is available to all full-time UIW faculty and staff at no cost. To get started in Premiere Rush, view the resources below.

• Adobe Premiere Rush video tutorials
• Adobe Premiere Rush written tutorials
• Download Premiere Rush for mobile
  • Premiere Rush for iOS
  • Premiere Rush for Android

Adobe Premiere Pro is professional-level editing software. If you want to do something complex, perhaps involving large video projects with effects and assets, this will be the most robust choice for you. Its' assets can be used seamlessly with all of Adobe's other products (Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, etc.). It does have a steep learning curve and is only available to full-time UIW faculty and staff.

If you're considering using Premiere Pro to edit videos, check out the five basic things you'll first learn how to do in Premiere Pro!

Ready to get started? Download Premiere Pro and view tutorials from Adobe by finding the 'Adobe Creative Cloud' tile on the Available Software page below.

Available Software for Faculty and Staff

With Camtasia, users can quickly start/stop a screen recording with voiceover work and export it as a video file to move anywhere. Once Camtasia is done capturing your video, screen, or audio then you can head right into the built-in editor. This allows instructors to customize video projects and presentations, all while being between the beginner to the intermediate-level learning curve. Due to the robust features and beginner friendly interface, Camtasia is the #1 recommended video editing software from UIW IT.

To learn more about getting started with Camtasia and resources to learn the program, find the 'Camtasia' tile on the Available Software page below...

Available Software for Faculty and Staff

iMovie is only available on Apple devices and naturally comes pre-installed on all Mac computers from Apple while being offered as a downloadable app for iPhones and iPads. For Mac users, this is an excellent option for total beginners who are just getting their feet wet but want to do some creative editing in their videos. Some notable features are...

• Great for beginners while being free
• Plenty of themes and templates
• Good number of transitions and effects
• Easy to edit video and audio with a drag and dropinterface
• Auto-saves across all of your Apple devices with iCloud

To get started with iMovie, check out some of the resources below.

• Download iMovie for Mac
  • If you have a UIW-owned device and are having difficulties downloading from the App Store due to needing admin credentials, contact the Help Desk.
• How to start, edit, and finish a video with iMovie
• User Guides
  • iMovie for Mac
  • iMovie for iPad

If you'd like one-on-one help or training outside these self-help resources, reach out to a Software Specialist

Once you've uploaded a video to your Stream library, you can trim the start and finish of the video at any time with the built-in editor.

• How to log in and upload a video to Stream
• Trim a video, music clip, or sound clip with Stream

If you have a Windows computer and need a free simple editing tool, Windows Video Editor within the Photos app might be your solution. This video editing application offers the ability to:

• Sequence and trim the start and finish of a video
• Draw and create annotations over a video
• Add narration or music to a video
• Add titles and annotations over a video
• Add 3D objects

Start a new project by viewing the tutorial below!

Starting a New Video Project in Windows

Using YouTube Studio, you can make simple edits such as trimming the beginning and ends of your videos. You can even add copyright-free music if desired. View the resources below to get started.

• How to create a Google account
  • Users must have a Google account to interact with Google's products, like YouTube.
• How to upload videos to YouTube Studio.
• How to edit videos in YouTube Studio
• Video series: Total Beginner's Guide to Video Editing on YouTube

echo360 allows Health Profession School (HPS) users to upload and store an unlimited number of videos or documents within a dedicated echo360 library. Once an item has been uploaded, users can access and share that content at any time by navigating to their echo360 library via the 'echo360' tile in Cardinal Apps and choosing the sharing options on their content. echo360 is integrated with Canvas

View the resources below to find out how to leverage echo360's unlimited library by storing and sharing content.

• How to upload media in echo360's library
• How to share media stored in echo360's library
• How to automatically store Zoom meeting recordings to echo360's library.
  • This is a popular option as the echo360 Canvas integration can easily be accessed by students, where they can view the recordings.
• Embedding and sharing echo360 content directly to Canvas pages.

With Microsoft Stream, you can upload and share as many videos as you wish. Sharing is much the same as OneDrive with videos only being sharable through links or embedding and only to those with a UIW login.

Videos uploaded to Stream are contained in your Library, so they must be given specific permissions for others to view. To assist in the permission assignment process, each semester UIW automatically creates Stream groups that contain members and instructors based on that course's initial enrollment. So, you'll have the option to assign videos to individual students or groups based on your courses. Additionally, Stream automatically applied closed captioning to all videos uploaded to the service!

To learn more about sharing and assigning permissions to a video in Stream, view the link below or reach out to a Software Specialist.

Sharing and Permissions with Stream

Every UIW-affiliated faculty, staff, and student have a dedicated OneDrive space to store and host up to 5TB of content! Any video file uploaded to a OneDrive site can be stored and shared with specific individuals or anyone with a link.

Videos uploaded to OneDrive can have comments, generate English transcripts and closed captions, and display basic analytics for watch numbers.

Written Guides

• How to upload a video file to OneDrive
• Share OneDrive files and folders on the desktop
  • Any video shared from OneDrive
• Share OneDrive files on mobile...
  • OneDrive for Apple iOS devices
  • OneDrive for Android devices

Vimeo is a popular video storage and sharing service that rivals YouTube. Instructors can use Vimeo to share instructional content or have students use Vimeo to create video content. The service features storage and video management, collaboration, password-protected video links and live streaming tools.

While YouTube is free to use, Vimeo follows to an extent... starting free and offering a variety of paid tiers with varying storage limits. UIW IT doesn't directly support Vimeo, but If you decide to use Vimeo, check out some of the resources below to get started and to stay informed.

• Learning how to use Vimeo
• Contact Vimeo support
• Learn the differences between YouTube and Vimeo as platforms

Online video-hosting services are also an option, the most popular and accessible option being YouTube. Anyone can upload content to the service, given they have a Google account, which can be made without a Gmail address. Some notable benefits of using YouTube are...

• Uploaded videos can have the following permissions assigned to them and viewing options to control who can/can't see your video or channel.
  • Public (anyone can view)
  • Unlisted (specific people can view and invisible on search)
  • Private (doesn't appear to users in any fashion, but stays on the channel for the owner)

• Any video can be shared through a link or embedded on a page.
• Shared links can start with a specific timestamp.
• Comments and analytics are available/optional for each video.
• Videos can be organized by loyalists.

To learn how to get started with uploading videos to YouTube, follow the guides below!

• How to create a Google account
  • Users must have a Google account to interact with Google's products, like YouTube.
• How to upload videos to YouTube Studio.
• How to share videos and channels on YouTube.

Video Guide

After a recording is finished, it will be stored locally or in the cloud-based on the host's settings. Please see the 'Cloud Recording Policy' on the UIW Zoom page for specifics, but there are pros and cons to storing videos locally or in the cloud. Users can access their Zoom recordings by heading to Cardinal Apps and selecting the 'Zoom' app.

Zoom recording resources

• How to share a Zoom recording stored in the cloud
• How to share a Zoom recording stored locally on a device