Capturing Lecture Recordings to Enhance Student Learning
Why should I capture my lectures for students?
Accommodate For Students With Disabilities
From disabilities with learning, hearing, vision, writing, typing—you name it, there are real struggles for many aspiring students in your class. Many schools are rising to the occasion (and requirements by law) to improve the learning environment for these students to create inclusive classroom recording policies and allow for aids and services to help with their learning process.
Get ahead of the curve: make your lectures and class website ADA compliant and accessible to the students with captions and transcripts for your lecture videos.
Give Students A Supplement to Live Lectures
No matter how attentive, students could miss something you speak on during your lecture. Students with access to your recorded lectures are proven to understand the core objectives better than those without. Students say that they prefer it.
Approach The Different Learning Styles
Not all students have the same learning style. Some students prefer visual (video), auditory (audio), and some like reading a transcript of your lectures. Make your students better learners by equipping them with all these resources and a new way to study.
Increase Accountability For Course Material
With all of your lectures available online to your students, you can implement a “no excuses” policy for students who are absent from class. You may also require attendance as part of your grade, but now you can ensure that if students encounter a major life event, or just sleep in on a Monday after a hard weekend, they can catch up at anytime online to be ready for the big test.
How do I record my classroom lectures?
You can record lectures with a video camera, audio recorder, or both!
Using Recording Equipment in Your Classroom
Enter the classroom or office and plug your 2 in 2 into the one USB-C cord on the docking station. The docking station and the one cord to plug in should be exactly the same in both locations -office and classroom.
Log in to Blackboard. The username is the same as your email, without the @southplainscolle... and the password in the same for both.
Choose the course that you would like to work in. From the menu on the left hand side. scroll down to course tools and select "Blackboard Collaborate Ultra" to open.
You might want to create a session before hand for others to join at a predetermined date and time. On the main screen, under the course room, select the button to "Create Session". Fill out all the information requested on the pop out, including session name, date and time, etc. If you would like to create a guest link to invite others to join, make sure that you check that box as well.
When you click save, it will create your session and add it to the list of upcoming sessions.
The round button on the right hand side is a drop down menu with several choices.
- Edit Settings
- View Reports
- Delete Session
- Copy Guest Link
To see the sesions you have recorded. Click on the 3 lines at the top left of the session screen. A drop down window will appear. Select Recording and select the one you would like. You are also able to search for recordings by date, etc.
When clicking the circle with 3 dots on the right side of each recording, there are several choices for editing. See below.
