Tufts provides and supports a range of tools for recording and sharing lectures and other educational videos. Feel free to contact Educational Technology Services for a consultation about any of these solutions, at edtech@tufts.edu.
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Echo360 Active Learning Platform
Echo360 is available in select classrooms across Tufts’ campuses to record everything that happens in a live class, including audio, video, and slides or software presented on the podium computer. Read more…
Zoom
Zoom is a full-featured video conferencing tool with an online whiteboard collaboration space. Can be used to record and caption a visual and audio presentation from your computer’s screen, webcam, and microphone. Read more…
Kaltura Capture
Kaltura Capture is a simple webcam and screen recording tool which lets you quickly capture video and audio from your computer camera, screen, and microphone. Read more…
Video Equipment
To borrow video cameras and related equipment for doing your own video recording, contact the Tisch Library Circulation Desk.
A/V Services
Tufts provides Audio/Video Services on all campuses in support of special events, including lectures, concerts, presentations, and large forum discussions. Contact A/V Services to learn more.
Extron
The Extron recording system is available in select classrooms at The Fletcher School. Contact IT at Fletcher in the Ginn Library to learn more.
Kaltura Capture is a simple webcam and screen recording tool which lets you quickly capture video and audio from your computer camera, screen, and microphone. It also works with the My Media and Media Gallery tools in Canvas. Read more…
Echo360 Personal Lecture Capture. If you already use Echo360 for classroom lecture capture, you can also use it to make recordings directly from your laptop and post them for your students to view. Read more…
Box Capture is an iOS app which lets you capture photos and video directly from an Apple device and send them immediately to a Box folder, along with other media files. Sharing with viewers is easy and secure. Read more…
Zoom is a full-featured video conferencing tool with an online whiteboard collaboration space. Can be used to record and caption a visual and audio presentation from your computer’s screen, webcam, and microphone. Read more…
Quicktime Player is an iOS app which allows you to quickly and easily capture video from your built-in camera or screen on a laptop, iPad, iPhone, or other mobile Apple device. Once captured you can do basic edits on your video, including trim, cut, paste, and rotate. Read more…
If you use Kaltura Capture to record a presentation, you can then make basics edits using the Kaltura Video Editor. Kaltura Capture also works with the My Media and Media Gallery tools in Canvas. Read more…
If you already use Echo360 to do lecture capture or personal capture of video, you can use the available editing tools to make basic edits and titles. Read more…
Kaltura Capture is a simple screen and audio recording tool. You can use it to record a Powerpoint presentation while using Powerpoint’s live drawing tools to annotate while the recording is in progress. Kaltura Capture also works with the My Media and Media Gallery tools in Canvas. Read more…
In Zoom, multiple users can collaborate in a whiteboard space to make simple drawings, notes, and to show media objects. Read more…
VoiceThread is a video and audio collaboration tool which allows users to post media objects, including video, then record voice annotations about those objects, while they’re playing. Read more…
In Kaltura’s Media Gallery in Canvas, viewers can add time-stamped comments to video. Read more…
Zoom allows for full-featured collaborative annotation in an online whiteboard space, in real time, during recording. Read more…
What is a flipped classroom? The flipped classroom is a teaching method in which faculty provide recorded instruction to students before class (often as video) so that students acquire new knowledge ahead of time at their own pace. This allows the instructor to use classroom time to facilitate discussion and interaction, and to promote students’ analysis and synthesis of what they’ve learned. Learn more…
Kaltura Capture is a simple webcam and screen recording tool which lets you quickly capture video and audio from your computer camera, screen, and microphone. It also works with the My Media and Media Gallery tools in Canvas. Read more…
Zoom is a full-featured video conferencing tool with an online whiteboard collaboration space. Can be used to record and caption a visual and audio presentation from your computer’s screen, webcam, and microphone. Read more…
If you already use Echo360 for classroom lecture capture, you can also make recordings directly from your laptop and post them to your students. Read more…
Educational Technology Services offers consulting and support in the design, development, production and launch of online and blended courses. Learn more…
Adobe Premiere is a high-end, full-featured video recording and editing tool offering editorial control over multiple tracks of video, audio, titling and effects. Premiere is available for free to Tufts faculty and staff through our Adobe Enterprise agreement. Learn more about accessing Premiere and other Adobe software here.
Echo360, Zoom, Box Capture
If you’ve captured video with any of these tools, your video files are stored and can be shared directly from the tool. Read more about each: Echo360, Zoom, Box Capture
Kaltura Tools
Kaltura tools including Media Gallery and My Media are available in Canvas. They can be used to embed video in the content of your course. Read more…
Using Kaltura’s Video Tools within Canvas, students can securely share videos with faculty and other students. Read more…
Bongo is a Canvas-integrated video assessment tool. You can use Bongo to create a variety of different types of video assignments and track student progress in the Canvas gradebook. Bongo assignments work well for having students share different types of video content, including presentations, demonstrations of hands-on skills, language learning, and others. Read more…