Hi there. This video shows how to use Zoom to create a screencast or a recording of your
computer screen. The first thing you want to do is open up Zoom and that's what I've done. So you
see me here in Zoom with just myself no one else is in this meeting. The first thing i'm going to
do when I'm ready to record is click on more and then choose record to the cloud. If you have a
premium Zoom account through your institution recording to the cloud is your default.
So, I'm now recording. My next step is to click on share screen so that I can show
something from my computer in the video. Now from here I'm going to choose
this window here. This is a window from Canvas that I want to share
and at the bottom I want to be sure to choose share sound. What that will do is record my
computer sound. So that is really an important step if you're going to be sharing a video, for
example, in your video. And now select share and now I am sharing my page from Canvas. I can do a
walk through, kind of explain things in a tutorial type of approach if that's what my intention is.
At the bottom, I can click on load this icebreaker in VoiceThread to show an example of
the VoiceThread and as you'll you'll see now since i recorded my sound you'll be able to hear that.
Here's your prompt. We all know that educators play a
special role ... and when you're done select stop recording
and then choose end meeting now. Zoom will process your recording and notify you via email
when it's done. Let's take a look at what the recording looks like in Zoom. Alright,
so now I'm logged into my Zoom account. I went to zoom.us or if you're a CCC
(California Community College) faculty or staff member you can also log in at ccconfer.zoom.us.
Both will take you to the same place. So log into your account at zoom.us. You'll know you're
logged in when you see your profile picture in the upper right corner. From there you want to click
on the recordings tab over on the left and that's going to show you a list of your recordings. Find
the recording that you are looking for. In this case, i'm going to click on this top one here.
That's going to take you out to the page with all the different files that you can download. What
you see here is going to depend on the recording settings that you've selected in your Zoom
account. So I have mine set up to actually record a lot of different facets of the Zoom meeting.
I have the shared screen with speaker view so that shows a little picture of me and the shared
screen. I have just the speaker view so that's just me and then I have the shared screen view,
the audio only, and audio transcript. So you want to download the option that meets your needs. For
me I'm going to download the shared screen with speaker view by by simply clicking on that down
arrow. You can see that it's now downloading to my computer. - I'm in Chrome. D own in the
lower left corner it shows that and it's now downloaded the mp4 file. Once I have that mp4
file i can go upload it into YouTube and another thing i can do is download the audio transcript.
And if your final video that you have in YouTube matches what you did in Zoom - in other words,
if you're not planning on doing any fancy editing - then you can simply download this transcript
as a vtt file and you can upload that straight into YouTube in the subtitles area and you've got
your captions done for you. They may need to be edited a little bit so check that out and be sure
that they're accurate but that's how it works. Now if you're wondering, "Why wouldn't I just
leave my video hosted in Zoom and share that link with my students or my audience?" and i've got a
good good answer to that question. The videos that are hosted in Zoom should be considered temporary
because the amount of time that that storage actually lives in Zoom depends on the agreement
that your institution has with Zoom and that is going to vary and it could change unexpectedly. So
when you record in Zoom if that's a video that you want to keep for future then it's important that
you download it and host it somewhere permanently like YouTube or maybe somewhere like Canvas Studio
if you have that provided by your institution or another video hosting service. The last thing I
want to say is that when you're hosting videos from Zoom it's really critical that you not
have any identifiable students in those videos if you plan to share them with anyone other than the
students actually enrolled in that course. And if you do have any identifiable students that stuff
needs to be edited out so they can't be identified so that you don't violate FERPA or you need to
have a written permission from those students. So if you're doing something like a screencast that
doesn't matter but it's my job to point that out so I want to be sure that I mention that.