hi everybody welcome back my name is mr campbell from mr campbell rocks and obviously today we're
going to be talking about screencastify need to be clear i am not getting paid or any promotion for
basically doing this tutorial uh let's do that up front so we're going to talk about how to
install and use screencastify we're going to talk about the difference in the free version to the
paid version and then some of the beta projects that they're working on like students submitting
videos or recordings as assignments very similar to flipgrid or something like that so
first of all screencastify is a plugin that plugs in as an extension
to google chrome it's always there it's live you can click on it record the videos
all of those videos are saved in google drive in a folder labeled screencastify
here's my folder right here so on this account which is my school account i have a paid
version which is basically the unlimited version i can have as many videos for whatever length i want
and you can see here i've created a lot of them over the past couple years i actually put all
of these videos in a folder and i share them with the schools that i work at um and then i use them
and upload them to youtube which is what we're watching tonight right or going through tonight so
they can also be shared if they're in google drive straight to google classroom so you can
run tutorials for your students and upload them straight into google classroom or share those in
a shared drive in google classroom that's always there so you don't have to change the permissions
and that's something that alice keeler and all of the great people who promote google products
know is to just have one folder that's shared with all of your classes that way you don't have
to share a file every time anyway so we search up screencastify it's going to ask us to add it
to chrome before we jump in and we add it let's look at the some of the things that we can do
with chrome so we go to products you can record simply you can record your browser your entire
desktop or a webcam and you can do any combination of those three so you can just do your microphone
you can just do your webcam or you can just do your desktop or you can just do your webcam
you in the extended version right the unlimited version you can edit which means you can merge
multiple videos together you can cut and rearrange them you can delete clips you can crop the clips
at the end if you had some dead space you could overlay some audio different things like that
the beta version of submit here is there in a testing version which allows students to
record and submit videos so we won't spend a lot of time in that most of
you are going to be working from a school if you're watching this so if we go here
they have a ton of amazing courses and they actually have a certificate once you
get in screencastify you can go through all of those trainings together together and get
a certificate basically says hey you're good to go on screencastify i have done a lot of that
for work uh basically if you're gonna use this for work which for most of you
if you're watching this is for work let's go to pricing so the free version is this
you have up to five minutes on your videos as far as recording this again is for an unlimited
version but wait we're an educator what's our discount it's almost forty percent off
these are all the features that you get along with all of these and all of these for thirty
dollars that's for an entire year that's about two dollars a month 50 cents a week 10 cents a day
i cannot tell you how much time and energy screencastify
has saved me more than 10 cents a day for real um it's all about a cost benefit analysis
right that's six or seven cups of coffee um hours and hours of time saved because the files go
straight to drive they're automatically shareable i can upload them straight to youtube you can
download them as an mp4 share them other places just that alone where i can record my screen
is worth that amount of money saving time so anyway here are all of the free things
that you can do here you can trim you can auto save to drive you can share to google classroom
again that all goes as well with here so you can add text over clips you can crop your
recordings you can merge videos together i need to go through that but let's add it to chrome
so we're going to click on add to chrome it's going to add that extension
you'll see here that it goes into my extensions and i can pin or unpin
extensions based on what i have here so we're going to double click on this and basically it's
going to go to a setup for the first time and so it's going to ask me do i automatically want
to save videos to a google drive absolutely so we're going to send in with google drive
i'm already connected to just my personal mr campbell rox account
hopefully it doesn't ask me for my password and username because i'm going to forget it's going
to ask the same thing it's going to access your files and folders are you okay with that yep i am
and what this will do is it will create a folder in your drive called screencastify
which i showed you the beginning it's going to ask access your camera and your microphones
if you have an external microphone you can change that i'll show you how to do that in a few minutes
we're going to allow that i am an educator and we're going to do other and i get all
of this confetti it's amazing so we have the overview video how to make your first recording
screencastify knowledge base that's the portion that i was talking about you could go through and
go through all the tutorials that they have i'm just doing a quick run through
now it's going to basically walk me through this so it's going to tell me right here what my video
length is and it's going to say hey do you want to upgrade so this is i'm going to slide over here
this is the paid version you see it says right here unlimited i have access to
everything there's not a limit here let's go back over here just so you can see
a couple different things so you can go to your recording straight to your drive it's going to
ask you to upgrade you can change your options options will basically give you all of the things
as far as privacy optimize your mics shortcuts on your desktop or laptop however you want to do that
um and notifications different things like that so to get started i want to and you're
going to be able to see my face here in just a minute i'm going to embed a webcam
i'm going to select my microphone which is my default one if i wanted to i could do webcam
only but we're not going to once i click record i'm going to get a countdown button
and a picture of myself should appear down in the bottom right hand corner and there's that
and it's not a picture of me because i have the wrong camera so let me go back and change it
that's the one we want that's an external camera that i have i'm gonna click on record now you're
gonna be able to see me here i am and you'll notice if you've been with me for a while a
lot of my earlier videos were on screencastify and i was just doing screen shares and i had a
picture of myself on the bottom right after a while i just realized that i'm kind of an ugly
dude you don't need to see me while i'm doing this and i make weird faces while i do it and so i just
deleted myself off the bottom some people are much better looking on camera than others and anyway we
don't need to get into that so it's going to ask me do i want to do an application window
or do i want to do my entire screen so when i click on my entire screen it's going to give me
the small version of what i'm looking at which is basically this screen here
there's my countdown so i am recording and it tells me right down here i get a notification
button right down here that tells me that i am sharing so i'm actually going to hide that it's
very similar to google meet if you're used to using google meet or google zoom it's going to
tell you which screen you're actually showing down here i have some options i have the pen
i have the eraser if i want to write on my screen i can do that i can erase the whole thing
if i want to change my mouse pointer and i have that or i can highlight here i can do this
again if i had a pdf or something like that i could actually write on the pdf or write on a
web page circle things highlight i'm explaining to my kids what's going on
with that page or what i want them to do with that page i can then record this video and then
share it with students after the fact in google classroom or explain them how to do it on their
own again so hey i need you to go here i need you to watch this video right it's much easier with a
mouse than a track pad if i wanted to change color i could do that as well
so you'll notice up here as well i have the little recording covering the screencastify um
icon so i'm actually done i'm going to stop recording right now
it's going to ask me this is my recording length this is everything that's here
i'm going to stop it if i wanted to pause i could pause as well and basically this is where we have
our editing thing so this is i'm going to skip the tour i can clip the ends of this but i can't
actually click the um or edit the entire video so i can clip the ends you'll notice up here on
the top right where my mouse is it's already in google drive if i want to get the shareable link
it's copied right there let's just go here paste it here
i'm going to open it with video editor it's going to take a minute to sync if i were to go to my
gmail which i'm gonna have a lot of emails in there this could be this could be scary
you'll see there's my folder screencastify that it just created if i double click on it
here is that untitled video that we just recorded so connects with drive
if i go back to my actual video i can name it here
there's that i can open it in editor i can trash it if i want i have the options here
editor classroom resources different things like that i can share straight to classroom
so when i click on share to classroom
it's going to go to a classroom that i don't have any classes in because i don't use this
account for google classroom but i could just share it right there with my classes
i can publish straight to youtube
i would have to add a youtube channel which i have connected to mr campbell rocks i would want to
make this public give it a title add a description and i could just throw it straight up on
my youtube channel you'll notice also if i wanted to get an embed code to put as an html snippet
snippet in my website or a blog or a google sites i could do that as well you would just copy this
code and paste it over there i can also download it as an mp4 i can also export the audio only if
i wanted to record it as a podcast right or if i wanted to read a test out loud i could do that
i could export it as an animated gif or gif depending on how you say it there's a lot
of options with screencastify and the greatest part about this it's not a third-party app you
don't have to download anything it's connected to google drive and everything is connected there
so i'm actually going to travel so i am recording and it tells me right down here i get a node
that's annoying i'm going to turn the volume down
let's go down to the editor here's my length i want to trim the front
i can trim the front if i want to trim the back i can trim the back and if i click on save trim
it's actually going to re-trim my video it's going to pull that off and save that file
once it's done i could again download
that file i could export it as an mp4 i have all of these options right so i'm going to trash this
and close this close this now we are going to go over to the unlimited edition
so again this is me on screencastify recording you'll notice up here that
i have the record button here i'm actually going to stop that we'll only do eight seconds
i have a lot more options when i go over to the edit part of screencastify
once it's uploaded it's saved to drive but i want to open this in editor
so it takes a few minutes right for the um movie to basically get to the editing page
and this is where you have a lot more options and so i can add text
i can select a portion of the video clip
i can drag this out i can trim it here if i wanted to add another piece i could add another one
you'll notice here that i can actually shrink in
on the video i don't need to shrink in on a 9 second video
it looks a little grainy right here but it comes out in high definition again if i wanted to add
text
oops i can choose the font
and it just puts it right on the video huge
i can put it anywhere i want i can move it around and you'll see that the text
is actually here i can adjust how long that text is on the video so if we play the video
we're gonna stop that let's go back here from here
the text pops up i have options to leave it on for this whole time
let's get the here i'm actually going to stop that we'll only do eight seconds so once i export this
i can export it to google drive or i can export it as an mp4 i'm going to take it to drive
we'll save that as a youtube tutorial it's going to take a minute to process right it's
got to basically re-encode everything the audio and the video together so those are
all in sync if i wanted to share it's going to give me a shareable link or option to share
with different groups different things like that i am not going to do that
i can view the actual video again and i've muted myself
there's the text right there popped up i can share it straight to classroom i can get a
shareable link i can go straight to youtube i can go get the embed code put it on a website
anything like that so for me again this is just me talking is the
free version is great and the paid version though for what you're paying is fantastic and it's quick
and it's easy and it's sitting on your desktop you can record these instantly right if if you
if you're in class and you literally you could do this in between class periods or at lunch or after
school to get ready for a substitute the next day and have that video sitting in google classroom
so when the kids walk into class the next day they're looking at the sub and the sun's like uh
you guys are supposed to have the plans boom it's right there in a video format it's you talking to
the kids it's you explaining what to do um again if you have questions about screencastify there's
a ton of people out there that have it that use it i just wanted to share this i've seen
a lot of questions about what it is and how to use it those are the differences between
the free version and the paid version and again there's a short message for you after this now
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