Three steps to start capturing lectures
This guide will detail steps to getting started with in-classroom Echo360 lecture Capture, including available recording options and what to expect in a lecture capture enabled space.
In this guide:
- Three steps to start capturing lectures
- Recording Options
- Lecture capture indicator lights
- Using Wireless Microphones
- Pausing a recording
Three steps to capture in-classroom lectures
Follow the three steps to start recording in-classroom lectures with Echo360 Lecture Capture.
Step One - Submit your consent form
A schedule cannot be created unless a consent form has been submitted. You are only required to submit this form once.
Step Two - Schedule your recordings
Before requesting your recording schedule, check your teaching room is equipped with Lecture Capture. Find out more about Lecture Capture enabled spaces.
A recording can be requested for individual events or for the entire timetable of a module. You can specify what you would like to be recorded and whether the recordings are made available to students immediately after recording.
There are four recording options available to choose from.
Step Three - Deliver your session
Once you have booked a recording in a Lecture Capture enabled space, your session will automatically be recorded.
Recording begins 5 minutes before the scheduled start time and ends 5 minutes before the scheduled end time. Some rooms are equipped with indicator lights which show the status of a recording.
Recording Options
There are four types of recording available to choose:
Presentation with audio commentary:
This option will record your presentation and voice. Everything shown on the lecture theatre projector is recorded, including the visualiser output. You'll need to use the radio mic provided. This is the most common type of recording.
The final lecture recording may look like this:
Presentation with video of presenter and audio commentary:
This is similar to the Presentation with Audio Commentary option, but with an additional video of you as you present alongside the slides. This mode is only available if a camera has been installed in the room, to find out if the room as a
The final recording may look like this:
Chalk/White board presentations with audio commentary:
Available in some lecture theatres, using the wall-mounted camera at the back of the room we can record Chalk/Whiteboard lectures along with your commentary. You'll need to use the radio mic provided.
The final recording may look like this:
Video presentation:
Available in some lecture theatres, using the wall-mounted camera at the back of the room, we can zoom into the presenter, an audio feed is taken from the radio mic provided.
The final recording may look like this:
Lecture Capture indicator lights
Lecture Capture Indicator Lights have been installed on the lecterns in all rooms in the Oculus Building, but will be available in other Lecture Capture enabled spaces soon. These lights signal the status of your current recording:
- Amber - About to record: This light will glow amber 3 minutes before the recording is about to start.
- Red - Recording: The light will turn red when you are recording.
- Red/Amber - Error: If the light starts flashing red and amber, no audio has been detected. Please check your microphone is turned on.
What to expect in the rooms
You can find information on what rooms support Echo360 here. Using the links on this page you can also find out information about the fittings in specific rooms, in some cases there will be images and a tour of the setup. You may want to familurise yourself with a rooms setup before you teach there. One of the most important aspects of your recording is the audio.
Using Wireless Microphones
To ensure you get the best audio quality when recording your lecture use the in-room wireless microphones installed on the lectern. There are two types of microphone and the video below details how to use both types. Here are a few of our top tips:
- attach the microphone to the center of your chest on a collar or lapel,
- avoid placing the microphone where it could be rubbed or knocked by your clothing, jewellery or hair,
- perform a sound-check to ensure everything is working,
- check that your students can hear you.
Pausing a recording
If you need to pause the recording, for example to remove a gap in the presentation or to have a private discussion, this can be done via the AV touch panel found on the lectern.
While a recording is active you can pause at any time by:
- Tap the flashing Rec button found on the top left of the touch panel, this will open the recording details.
- Tap Pause Capture button, found at the bottom of the recording details.
- To resume recording tap the Resume Capture button which will have replaced the Pause Capture option found in the recording details.
If in doubt recordings can be edited after completion. Follow our Editing Echo 360 recordings guide.
If you have issues or need help whilst in a teaching space, contact AV services:
024765 22463
audio.visual@warwick.ac.uk
For more information on using Echo360 visit our additional Echo360 guidance via the contents panel, or see the Lecture Capture FAQ page.
Contents
- Introduction to managing course participants
- Make your course visible to students
- Enrolment methods and managing access permissions
- Enrol participants using Warwick auto-enrolment
- Manually enrol participants onto a Moodle space
- Roles and their functions in Moodle
- Groups and groupings
- Enable activity completion
- Mark activity completion manually
- Track activity completion
- Course completion
- Course participation
- Introduction to assessment and feedback
- Create a fail / pass scale
- Create a custom certificate
- Create and manage badges
- Reports, logs and completion data in Moodle
- Create an assignment
- Create an assignment for group submission
- Set up Turnitin within an assignment
- Create and grade a submission using a rubric
- Use a marking workflow for assignments
- Blind marking
- Allocate markers to specific submissions
- Provide grades and feedback for individual assignments
- Check the status of submissions
- Hide or show grades and feedback
- Introduction to eStream
- Access your eStream content
- Uploading videos to eStream
- Edit videos in eStream
- Edit video thumbnail
- Uploading a closed captions (subtitles) file to eStream
- Add eStream videos to Mahara
- Sharing eStream videos to Moodle
- Sharing an eStream video with a link
- Setup a video assignment in Moodle