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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Capture lecture in a classroom or other teaching space
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.
Quickly create short videos
To quickly record a short video and share it
Kaltura Capture
Kaltura 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
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
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
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…
To do basic video editing and titling
Kaltura Capture
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…
Echo360 Personal Lecture Capture
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…
Make notes and sketches over a presentation or video
To make whiteboard style drawings and notes on a presentation as I deliver it or record it
Kaltura Capture
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…
Zoom
If you’re already familiar with Zoom, multiple users can collaborate in a whiteboard space to make simple drawings, notes, and to show media objects. Read more…
To have students or colleagues make notes and sketches over video or images
VoiceThread
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…
Kaltura Tools
Zoom
Zoom allows for full-featured collaborative annotation in an online whiteboard space, in real time, during recording. Read more…
Create videos to use in a flipped classroom
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
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
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…
Echo360 Personal Lecture Capture
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…
Make studio-quality recordings of lectures for an online or blended course
To record my lectures in advance, for an online or blended course
Educational Technology Services offers consulting and support in the design, development, production and launch of online and blended courses. Learn more…
To do video capture with more full-featured video and audio editing, and titling
Premiere
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 to Tufts faculty and staff through our Adobe Enterprise agreement. Learn more about accessing Premiere and other Adobe software here.
Share videos with or from students
To store videos for access in online settings such as classes, blogs, etc.
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…
To allow students to share video
Kaltura Tools
Using Kaltura’s Video Tools within Canvas, students can securely share videos with faculty and other students. Read more…