Embedded Files
The Relay Racers provide their feedback on the usability and ease of use for the TechSmith Relay tool.
The Relay Racers provide their feedback on the usability and ease of use for the TechSmith Relay tool.
I liked TechSmith Relay because it allows you to make and share videos in a very simple way, no matter your level of experience. In my case, it worked well because it was the first time I made a video. I think it's great to know that we have free access to this, a tool that allows us to make videos, measure them and with the possibility of generating subtitles so that more people have access to information. The only thing that I think could be a point of improvement would be the editing options. I see they are limited.
I found TechSmith Relay an easy tool to pick up on, and appreciate it’s free use a UCD Denver student. My rating is based on the lack of editing functionality and inability to stitch together multiple recordings. The ability to store and share videos in a multi authoring environment is a bonus. However, I found the product to lack the video editing features and functions I have come to expect in other TechSmith products such as Camtasia. Give it a try!
In examining TechSmith Relay, I think it is pretty easy to get the fundamentals. Recording, sharing and viewing are pretty easy but editing functions are limited. Relay has an acceptable but basic analytics package reporting on who has watched how much of what videos. From a business HR perspective this is useful in measuring completion and compliance. Looking at Relay from a business perspective, it’s pretty expensive as an organizational solution for creating, sharing and evaluating videos. I think products like Camtasia and Captivate are more sophisticated, offer more and do not require an enterprise license, so less expensive. But for free as a student, I like it a lot more!
When I hear “free for student use software” I’m not expecting something with as many features. We used this tool throughout our project presentation making screen recording and webcam videos, editing them, and sharing them in a private group we set up - which helped with management of our project. We then embedded these videos into our Google Site from TechSmith so we could track analytics. It was designed to be easy-to-use and I always appreciate a tool that addresses accessibility. While there are so many features, they could be more advanced and better designed. You can trim and splice a video, but you can’t stitch multiple videos together. You can share videos and embed them, but the embed codes aren’t adaptive based on desktop versus mobile viewing. You can set up a group to manage videos between authors but can’t download those movies for offline viewing if you’re not the original author. The list goes on, and some are forgivable considering it’s free. This tool was developed for the education industry, and there is a big opportunity to develop individual licensing options for independent trainers, instructional designers, and eLearning developers. However, if presented with the opportunity to purchase this tool as-is, I would discover a lot of halfway-done features.
Click the image below to go to additional tutorials offered by TechSmith Relay
Click the image below to go to additional tutorials offered by TechSmith Relay
Google Sites
Report abuse