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Introduction
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Introduction

CaptureSpace will record your narration of the slides and combine the narration with the slides. The narrated presentation can be uploaded directly to My Media in Moodle where it can be easily embedded anywhere narrated presentation is a recording of a presentation (e.g. a PowerPoint presentation) with voice-over at the same time. You can also record yourself speaking so the viewer sees your slides and you delivering the presentation. Narrated presentations may be useful for recording lectures, student presentations, etc. 

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 CaptureSpace. Once you have made your recording, you can upload to your My Media library and embed it the media anywhere the Moodle text editor is available.PowerPoint ( Your presentation slides (i.e. PowerPoint in .PPTX or .PPT format) slides need to be prepared in advance. Narrated presentations created using CaptureSpace cannot be downloaded.

If you have recorded 

NOTE: You cannot download recordings of your narrated presentation. 

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How to create a narrated presentation

1. Open CaptureSpace

  • From Moodle, click on the User menu in the top right and click My Media.

 

  • From the My Media window, click on Add New and then CaptureSpace.

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2. Select PRESENTATIONS & LECTURES in the CaptureSpace recorder

  • With the CaptureSpace Desktop Recorder window open, select Presentations & Lectures.

3. Select your RECORDING OPTIONS & click RECORD

  • Presentation recording has many options, but these instructions will suggest basic settings that will allow you to create a narrated presentation.

    • Set the camera recording options

      to none (otherwise your webcam will be included in the recording)

      to None if you want to record your presentation without webcam. If you want your recording to include your webcam, leave the default setting.

    • Browse for and select the presentation file that you wish to use (PPT and PPTX files supported).

    • When finished with the options, click the Record button.

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  • A five-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.



  • Click Pause to pause the recording, click Done when you are finished making your recording, or click cancel if you would like to restart the recording.
  • You may also pause or resume the recording by pressing Alt-P.

 

4. Click DONE to finish recording

  • Click Done to move on to reviewing your video.

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5. Name & save your recording

  • Give your recording a title in the Title field. 
  • Optionally, you may add a description and tags.
  • Clicking Upload UPLOAD will upload the recording to My Media and save it in the CaptureSpace library.
  • Clicking Preview PREVIEW will take you back to the editing window.
  • Clicking Save SAVE will save it in the CaptureSpace library where you can upload it to My Media later.

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How to embed the presentation

  • To embed

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You can access the local MP4 video recording files, and here's how:

Open CaptureSpace and click on the Settings tab. Copy the location of the 'Local Media Files Storage' and paste it into the Windows Explorer address bar. From there you'll need to find the correct sub folder with the MP4 file you're looking for.

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