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You can record a narrated presentation directly from your My Media page. To do this, you will need to install the My Media application called Kaltura Capture. Once you have made your recording, you can upload to your My Media library and embed it anywhere the Moodle text editor is available.
Your presentation slides (i.e. PowerPoint in .PPTX or .PPT format) need to be prepared in advance.
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- In the recorder window, decide which options to leave on - you can record the screen (or multiple screens), a webcam and an audio source. In the picture below, the screen and audio are enabled and will be recorded.
- Disable any options by clicking the icon (it will look greyed out with a line across it).
By default, the webcam is turned on, click the camera icon to disable it or leave it on to record yourself while speaking.
For an overview of the recording options, please go to Moodle My Media - How to select the recording options (using Kaltura Capture).
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3. Look over your settings & click NEW RECORDING to record
To view the settings, click MANAGE to go into the Kaltura Library.
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Select the Gear icon and update any settings if needed.
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4. Open the presentation file that you wish to use
- Open and put the presentation into Slide Show mode.
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- Click the New Recording button to start recording.
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- A 3-second countdown timer will indicate when recording will begin. To ensure that nothing is cut off from the beginning, it is a good idea to wait an extra second before you begin speaking.
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4. Record and navigate through your slides
- The slides will automatically be captured as chapters and the text, they will be indexed and searchable later on in the player.
Click the slide to advance to the next slide or use the left and right arrow keys to move back and forth.
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In the recording menu, look for the pencil icon to open the annotation tools.
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- Use the annotation tools to draw attention to or highlight the slide’s content.
- Your mouse pointer and the PowerPoint laser pointer will not appear in the recording, use the Cursor arrow in the annotation tools instead.
- When you are done with the annotations, click the Pencil icon again to return to the cursor mode. For more information, go to Kaltura's notes on the annotations tools.
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5. Click Stop Recording to finish recording
- Click the square to stop recording.
- The red circle is to temporarily pause. You may also pause or resume the recording by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+R.
- Click the X to cancel and start again.
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- It will prompt you to save the recording, select "Yes, stop it".
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- Give your recording a title in the Title field.
- Optionally, you may add a description and tags.
- Clicking SAVE & UPLOAD will upload the recording to My Media and also save it in the Kaltura Capture library.
- Clicking SAVE will save it in the Kaltura Capture library where you can upload later to My Media.
- Important Note: DELETE will remove it from your computer. It will not go into your Recycle Bin and can't be retrieved. Make sure you have either uploaded it into My Media or you would like it to be deleted. Deleting it from My Media will also remove it and can't be retrieved.
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- Click the title to view the recording.
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- The chapters and slides have been automatically added. Click the 3 bars located in the top left corner of the player window to open the panel.
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- The panel also includes the Search box. You can search for specific text and it will jump to that specific area of the video.
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- To close the panel, click the 3 bars again.
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If you have recorded the webcam with your screen, the player will show you multiple interactive viewing options such as Toggle Views Picture-in-Picture, Side-by-Side, and Single View.
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