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. Make sure your camera is aligned with your line of sight.
• If you're using your computer's built-in webcam and want a different angle, consider purchasing a USB webcam and tripod combo to get clarity and a better view.

Lighting tips

• While there are many tips and tricks to control lighting conditions, this four-minute video from Wirecutter is a great way to understand the various types of lighting conditions that are optimal for video conferencing and recording.

Other considerations

• Consider writing a script.
• Eliminate outside noises or distractions by isolating yourself when you record.
  • Most video editors (and places to store video) have noise-removing features built-in so don't worry too much about erratic background noises ruining your recording.

When you create videos, it's ideal that your media has closed captioning (CC) and a transcript available to students who either prefer or must use the accommodation to follow along with the content. It's important to note, CC is also important to non-disability reporting individuals.

The video storage platforms offered by UIW all have Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) features that can automatically generate transcripts and closed captions for you. However, it's important to review generated transcripts because they aren't perfect, as instructional jargon can be very specific and machines won't always transcribe it properly. Learn more about closed captioning and transcript services below.

• Managing video with (New) Stream
  • View, edit, and manage video transcripts and closed captioning on OneDrive, SharePoint, and Teams videos using (New) Stream.
• Managing video using Echo360
  • Accessing the transcript and closed captioning editor for Echo360 content.
• Managing video recordings in Zoom
  • Managing automated captioning with Zoom recordings.
• Uploading video using YouTube
  • Use automatic captioning on YouTube video content.
  • Edit or remove captions on YouTube videos.

To learn more about Accessibility at UIW and other conveniences to consider, visit the Accessibility page below.

Accessibility at UIW

Before 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 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 typically make videos based on these three common scenarios.

• Video with no webcam 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 and on-screen content
  • Good for more lecture-oriented videos, or videos that require a reason to see the instructor.
• Video with a webcam 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 recording, which is the process of a program or tool recording what's happening on your computer screen or device. This is an essential concept when preparing instructional material for both asynchronous and synchronous purposes. Most of the listed programs in the tiles below 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 Profession Schools (HPS) and is a video platform that allows HPS faculty to record their lectures autonomously or manually for student convenience or pedagogy purposes. Outside of classroom computers, Instructors can use the Universal Capture app to record multiple inputs (Ex. a camera and desktop) side-by-side in the same video.

View the resources below to learn how to get started with the Echo360 Universal Capture applicaiton.

While using a compatible browser, The (New) Stream Web App allows you to record your screen for up to 15 minutes, and directly upload the recording to your OneDrive. Some of the benefits in the Stream recorder include...

• Simple camera/microphone selection
• Virtual backgrounds
• Video frame overlay
• Filters
• On-screen annotations like text, stickers, and images.
• Drawing tools for annotations
• Screen-recording
  • User can record screen and webcam with a picture-in-picture view.
• Whiteboard

Learn how to record your computer's screen with the (New) Stream Web App with the resources below

• Create a new video recording with Stream
• (New) Stream recording tool video demonstration

Microsoft Teams (aka Teams) is a video conferencing tool at heart, but it's really 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

*OBS is not officially supported by UIW and anything past receiving help with an installation must go through official OBS support channels.

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 at 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 a dedicated app, 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 recording 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.

Check out TechSmith's series of tutorial videos on editing in Camtasia.

Camtasia Tutorials - Editing the Timeline

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
• A good number of transitions and effects
• Easy to edit video and audio with a drag-and-drop interface
• Auto-saves across all 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

If you have a Windows computer and need a simple and free 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 resource guide below.

Starting a New Video Project on 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 edit videos in YouTube Studio
• Video series: Total Beginner's Guide to Video Editing on YouTube

Every UIW-affiliated faculty, staff, and student have a dedicated OneDrive space to store and host up to 5TB of content. All videos uploaded to OneDrive, SharePoint, or Teams site benefit from the multitude of features found in the (New) Stream video player making this the recommended solution to store and share video content at UIW. With uploading and sharing through (New) Stream, you can...

• Upload video or audio files to OneDrive, Teams, and SharePoint just like any other file.
• Share videos with internal and external people.
• Embed videos
• Enable Comments on videos.
• Create chapters for video content
• Create an 'About Video' section with a Rich Content Editor.
  • #tags can be added in the 'About Video' section on a video to allow users to search a shared folder, group site, or the (New) Stream web app for specific tagged content.
• Generate a transcript and closed captions for the video.
• Video playback speed is available on all videos.
• View analytics on all videos stored in OneDrive, Teams, and SharePoint.
• Add custom thumbnails to videos.
• Enable 'Noise suppression' for a video to eliminate background noise in the audio.
• Create and share video playlists

View the resources below to start uploading and sharing content with Microsoft OneDrive.

• How to upload and store a video file to (New) Stream on OneDrive
• How to share a video from (New) Stream and OneDrive

Echo360 allows Health Profession Schools (HPS) users to upload and store videos or documents within a dedicated library space. Once an item has been uploaded, instructors can access and share that content through a variety of methods. Some notable features of uploading and sharing with Echo360 are...

• All videos uploaded to Echo360 will automatically have an English transcript and closed captioning applied to the video.
• Echo360 offers a Canvas integration where videos can be conveniently shared with students through a dedicated space.
• Media can be organized into 'Collections' which can be shared directly with students and colleagues.
• Unlimited, secured storage space.
• Can upload various file formats, not just videos.
• Offers a variety of convenient, quick, and customizable methods to share your library content (See below).
• Ability to autonomously save Zoom meetings to your Echo360 library.

View the resources below to find out how to leverage Echo360's unlimited library by storing and sharing content.

1. How to upload and store media in your Echo360's library.
2. Share your Echo360 content with others...
   1. By linking or embedding in Canvas through the Rich Content Editor (RCE).
   2. Through the Echo360 menu within your Canvas course.
   3. With a dedicated and direct sharing link/embed code to an individual piece of media.

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 stay informed.

• Learn how to use Vimeo as a video repository.
• Contact Vimeo support for help with video management.
• Learn the differences between YouTube and Vimeo as platforms.

*Vimeo is not officially supported by UIW and help with the product must go through official Vimeo support channels.

Online video-hosting services are an option to store and share content, 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 recording 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. Either way, Zoom facilitates the automatic movement of your recording to one of the two locations.

View the resources below to find out how to share a Zoom recording that was sent to either the cloud or was saved locally on a device.

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