Educational Technology in UT Austin School of Nursing
Serving the learning technology & instructional design needs of faculty in UT's School of Nursing
So you’ve been creating short screencast videos using Screencast-O-Matic or some other free option and now you’re ready to take your videos to the next level.
Or maybe you’re just tired of being limited to 15 minutes and so few editing options.
In that case, now it’s time to think about paying for one of the numerous options out there.
One of the easiest ways you can create student-centered, engaging materials for your in-person, hybrid, or online courses is with screencasts.
Wikipedia defines “screencast” as a digital recording of a computer screen, often containing audio narration.
But you might be thinking that the software is hard to learn or that you don’t have time for editing and so on.
There are lots of different ways you can add engaging, interactive content to your courses and you don’t even have to leave Canvas to do it.
Using the features built right in to Canvas’ Rich Content Editor and your computer’s webcam and microphone, you can record video or audio directly into any page, quiz, assignment or discussion with your course. Your students can even do the same thing.
Students can use UT Box for lots of things. And, instructors can use it to make their own lives and their students’ lives a little easier with the UT Box Mobile App. No matter where you, or your students are, you can access and share files all within your Canvas course.
For example, if a class assignment requires students to record and submit a video as part of a class project, they can record that video on their smart phone, then upload that video file from their phone straight to their UT Box account.
