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Introduction

A screencast is a recording of what is on your computer screen, often containing audio narration. Another name for a screencast is video screen capture or screen recording. Screencasts are useful for how-to-guides, narrated demonstrations, course tours, tutorials, slideshows, etc.

You can record screencasts from My Media page in Moodle. To do this, you will need to install the My Media application called Kaltura Capture. Once you have made your recording, you can upload your recording to your My Media library and embed it anywhere the Moodle text editor is available.

How to create a screencast

1. Open Kaltura Capture

• From Moodle, click on  My Media top right.

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

• If you’ve already installed Kaltura Capture, it will launch automatically. Otherwise, please refer to Moodle My Media - Installing Kaltura Capture.

2. Enable the SCREEN input in the Kaltura Capture recorder

• The Kaltura Capture desktop recorder window (pictured below) will open.
• In the screenshot below, Screen recording, camera (webcam) recording, and audio recording are all enabled. If one is disable it will be grey with a line through it. Clicking on it will toggle it between enabled and disabled.
• To record your screen, ensure that Screen is enabled.
• If you want to record your webcam at the same time so that there's an image of yourself in the corner of your video, ensure that Camera is enabled.
  
  

• If you have multiple screens and want to record only one screen, simply click one of the Screen icons until it becomes grey, this will disable it.
• For an overview of the recording keyboard shortcuts, refer to How to select the recording options (using Kaltura Capture).
  
  
  
  
• If you have multiple microphones, or aren't sure if you do, select the arrow under the microphone icon and ensure that the correct microphone is selected.
  
  

3. Choose to record Full Screen or Select Area

• Under Screen you can choose either Full Screen or Select Area. Select area will allow you to record a specific portion of your screen.
• You can choose from suggested dimensions in the menu or if you want to resize the recording window to make a custom size, hover over the dashed lines and when an arrow shows up, click and drag to resize.

4. Start Recording

• Now that you're ready to start recording, select the red Start Recording button.
• A three-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.
• It's a good idea to start off making a short test recording, maybe 5 seconds long, to make sure everything is working as intended, including your microphone.

• You may pause and resume the recording by pressing COMMAND or CTRL+SHIFT+R.
• You may also draw on your screen by using the annotation tools. Click on the pencil icon to open options. The drawing will appear in the recorded video.

5. Click STOP RECORDING SQUARE to finish recording

• It's recommended that you pause your video with COMMAND or CTRL+SHIFT+R and then stop it.
• If you know you want to delete your recording and start again you can also click X to cancel.
• Click the square to stop the recording and select Yes, Stop it to move on to reviewing and saving your video.
  
  
  
  
• If you'd like to edit your recording please refer to Moodle My Media - How to edit media recordings ( Kaltura Capture).
  
  

6. Name & save your recording

• 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 save it in the Kaltura Capture library.
• Clicking SAVE will save it in the Kaltura Capture library where you can upload it to My Media later.
• 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.
  
  

• After uploading the recording to My Media, if you don't see the recording in your My Media library right away, try clicking the refresh button:

Kaltura Capture keyboard shortcuts

To embed a video in Moodle, please see Moodle My Media - How to upload and share video & audio

How to access the MP4 video files

To download a video in Moodle, please see Moodle My Media - How to download your video.

Troubleshooting

For information on troubleshooting, please see Moodle My Media - Troubleshooting Kaltura Capture.

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