There are a variety of options available to you to record and present your presentations. While the Tools for Interactive Teaching and Learning page provided a general list, there are a few tools that are particularly useful for presentations.

Kaltura and CaptureSpace

Kaltura at IU is a cloud-based video management system that can be used for storing, publishing, and streaming videos, video collections, and other types of media. The system integrates into Canvas through the Media Gallery and My Media options in course navigation as well as through the "Embed Kaltura Media" button () in any Canvas text editing area. Accounts are available to both faculty and students. Separate from Canvas, you can access and manage your videos in Kaltura MediaSpace.

Kaltura CaptureSpace is a desktop application that gives you access to a wider range of recording options than the webcam recording option in Kaltura MediaSpace. Recordings created using CaptureSpace can be uploaded and managed alongside your other content in MediaSpace. CaptureSpace allows you to record video, narrated slide presentations, narrated screen capture presentations, presentations with picture-in-picture video, and audio right from your desktop.

Installing and using CaptureSpace: KB Article

In addition to CaptureSpace, there are other tools you can use to record presentations to upload to Kaltura.

Zoom

While Zoom is primarily for videoconferencing, you can use a Zoom meeting room to record video and presentations as well. It is especially useful for screen capture recordings as you can share any or all of your screen in the meeting room and use the annotation tools to draw, type, or otherwise mark up the screen. You can also share and annotate a PowerPoint or other slide presentation. Your recording will save to your computer and you can then edit as needed in your preferred video editing application (i.e. iMovie, Adobe Premiere Elements, Windows MovieMaker, etc.) and upload your finished version to Kaltura to share with your class. For more information on Zoom, please see the KB articles on What is Zoom and Using Zoom for large video meetings or webinars.

Microsoft Office Mix

If you are using a Windows operating system you can download the Office Mix add-in for PowerPoint that allows you to record a presentation slide by slide. This provides the option to re-do a single slide without having to edit the final video as you would using Zoom. By clicking the "Export to Video" option when you are satisfied with your recording, Mix will download your video to your computer where you can then upload it to Kaltura to share with your class.

VoiceThread

VoiceThread is a learning tool that can be used to enhance student engagement and online presence. With VoiceThread, instructors and/or students can create, share, and comment on images, Microsoft PowerPoint presentations, videos, audio files, documents, and PDFs, using microphone, webcam, text, phone, and audio-file upload. VoiceThread integrates into Canvas an external tool and can be inserted into a course as an Assignment or as a Module item. You can add VoiceThread to the same course multiple times. For example, if you want to link directly to three different VoiceThreads in your course, add three separate VoiceThread placements, one for each thread. Adding a VoiceThread as a module element allows you to direct students to a presentation you create and provides the ability for students to respond to your presentation via text, audio, or video and engage in threaded discussion. One caveat is that commenting and discussion become awkward if multiple people are annotating a video as the video will repeat in its entirety for each person's comment. For video annotation we recommend VideoAnt described below.

Though VoiceThread will give you embed code and you can technically embed a VoiceThread into a Canvas page, students cannot interact with an embedded VoiceThread (they are sent into a login loop). If you have an instance where you want to use VoiceThread as a presentation-only tool, you can embed the VoiceThread and turn of the ability to comment on it.

As you can see in the Online Presence Module, VoiceThread is a good tool for course introductions. Students can use VoiceThread for presentations by sharing their individual VoiceThread with the class and they can collaborate on a presentation when each member of a group is responsible for creating and narrating a different section or set of slides. Other class members can provide feedback and ask questions of their presentation via text, audio, or video (see active learning module).

Adding VoiceThread to Canvas: KB Article

VideoAnt

While mainly an interaction tool, VideoAnt can be used for presenting pre-annotated video or video you created on which you would like students to comment or ask questions. VideoAnt is a web-based video annotation tool from the University of Minnesota that you can use to add annotations or comments to web-hosted videos. If you have found or placed videos on YouTube, these videos can be annotated simply by putting the url into VideoAnt.

You can annotate a video yourself or you can have your students annotate, either as a class or in smaller groups. Threaded discussion is available for each annotation. As you can see below you can embed these videos with annotations into Canvas pages. This is useful for a presentation where you are analyzing a video as instruction or example. For students to annotate, you would need to link to the Ant since you cannot comment on an embedded Ant, only in the main VideoAnt interface.

You can sign in to VideoAnt with your Google Apps for Education account and store videos on your non-public Google@IU YouTube channel.