Lecture Recording Options

Zoom Lecture Capture or Voice-Over PowerPoint

Best practices for online course lecture recordings

Course design experts recommend chunking information for student consumption. In other words, shorten lectures into smaller chunks of 10-15 minutes focusing on a single concept. This will allow students to stay attentive and focus on smaller bites of information while making the upload/download process much easier for both instructors and students.

Zoom has been identified as the go-to campus solution for recording lectures that can be uploaded either to the Mediasite platform or directly into courses hosted in D2L.

Instructions: Create a local recording using Zoom and upload D2L, instructions found here.

Instructions: Upload to MyMediasite, instructions found here in the Using MyMediasite to upload Videos to Mediasite Infrastructure Guide.

Additional Zoom Resources

Official support articles for Zoom Audio, Zoom Video, Zoom Screen Sharing & Zoom Recording

Voice-Over PowerPoint

Voice-Over PowerPoint is another solution for creating lectures that align with your PowerPoint slides currently built.

Instructions: Learn how to add voice-over to PowerPoint slides by clicking here (.PDF).

Please note, when creating voice-over PowerPoint slides to post in D2L, students must download presentations outside of D2L to play in “Show” version on their computers. If you have a large slide deck with multiple graphics, consider breaking the slides up into multiple mini-lectures to alleviate the upload and download time on this file type. D2L can upload files no larger than 1GB.