ScreenPal

What is ScreenPal?

When you want to record a presentation, slide deck, your desktop and/or both, use ScreenPal.

This is a free, easy to use, cloud based, screen capture tool. The free account gives you a 15 minute limit on video recording length.

Navigate to ScreenPal
Create a free account with your STCC Gmail account.
Watch the starter "Recorder and Video Editor Intros" videos and learn how to use ScreenPal.
There are ScreenPal video tutorials to support you.

Open a tab on Chrome browser to the content on your screen you want to record
Navigate to ScreencastOmatic
- Create a ScreencastOmatic account using your STCC email
- A free account is perfect and allows 15 minutes videos
Launch the recorder
- Open Screen Recorder Launcher
- Set size within the Screen Recorder
  - 480 X 640 is standard size and most preferred
Adjust the dotted line to the content you desire to record
Click on record
- Begin recording
- Truncate as you desire
When finished with the entire recording
- Save and upload
- Save as video file- which will download to where ever you have indicated i.e. Desktop
Click Publish
Click Done
- Now your video is on your Desktop OR wherever you had ScreencastOmatic save to
Save on desktop & name i.e. Week 3 Presentation

Recommended Method

If you prefer, you can store your files on your computer and then upload to YouTube

After recording your video, select Done.
The Video Editor will appear.
The Options menu will appear.
Select Save As Video File
Review Menu
- Provide a file type, file name, folder to download the file to, and the quality.
Select Publish to download

Be Careful. Free Accounts do not save a backup copy. Recordings may be lost.

You can upload your recording directly to YouTube from Screencast-o-Matic.

Use your YouTube account to store your videos. Blackboard is not made to store large video files.