Screen Recordings

Screencastify is the online screen recording tool you can use to create lessons.

  • 5 mins max per video

  • Unlimited number of videos

  • Can record desktop or webcam or combination

  • Can use built-in pen to mark up items as you create the video (must be done in "active" site like Google Docs, Office 365, Word Online, PowerPoint Online, Excel Online, Google Sheets, Google Slides)

  • You can trim or edit your video easily

  • Link saves automatically in google drive

  • Copy the link and paste into your course (video will take a few minutes in google to process)

  • You can mash clips together from your webcam and screencastify, trim clips, edit out your bloopers, and even add a title or captions. Here is a link to tutorials. https://help.screencastify.com/category/133-editing-premium

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Tips - Snipping tool, Spotlight Mouse

Click on the video to the left to watch some tips on the spotlight mouse and how to snip and pull something into google docs if your website does not show the drawing tools (it is not "live").

Other helpful info -

Using Camera app instead of screencastify - tutorial by Max

How to download video from screencastify and upload to schoology (if screencastify takes too long or isn't loading)

Troubleshooting the pen article here (Thanks, Lauren!)

Videos from Max:

1) Setting up ScreenCastify - https://v637g.app.goo.gl/kAoqKJGRMkQMV4dS6 (This video is not made by me but it does a good job explaining how to setup ScreenCastify. I stopped it early)

2) Editing and storing videos from ScreenCastify – https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-JvKVee-TiMm5PAn16-6V5EWEYesL_jt/view?usp=sharing

3) Embedding videos from ScreenCastify and Google Drive into Schoology – https://drive.google.com/file/d/18aRQoIdzGcWVTbd9CJ1rA5uxk-R86M2v/view?usp=sharing

4) Recoding a PowerPoint - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-Ww8b_gmpnwxyLBYznbIA2FrUWNlxspB/view?usp=sharing