Universal Capture (Personal) FAQs
- What is Universal Capture (Personal)?
- Do I haveto consent to the Lecture Capture Service to use Universal Capture?
- What recording options are there?
- Can I live stream a presentation?
- How do I edit Universal Capture (Personal) recordings?
- How do I access Universal Capture (Personal) recordings?
- How will my students access Universal Capture (Personal) recordings?
- How can I get my recordings transcribed or apply closed captions?
What is Universal Capture (Personal)?
Universal Capture (Personal) allows you to record presentations, learning modules and tutorials with your computer in the comfort of your office or home. Universal Capture (Personal) can record whatever is on your computer screen, including PowerPoint presentations and websites, your voice and the video from your webcam if desired. The software allows you to quickly and easily playback your recordings, perform editing and publish to Echo360.
To download Universal Capture (Personal), follow the guide How to install Universal Capture (Personal).
Do I have to consent to the Lecture Capture Service to use Universal Capture?
No. We do not require you to complete a consent form before using Universal Capture (Personal). By downloading and creating recordings using the Universal Capture (Personal) software your consent is implied. By using Universal Capture (Personal) to make recordings you are not consenting to the in-room automated Lecture Capture Service.
If you wish to stop using Universal Capture (Personal), uninstall the software from your machine and request for any recordings to be deleted from the system. Please note, deletion is permanent and cannot be undone.
What recording options are there?
With Universal Capture (Personal) you can choose which aspects of the presentation you wish to record. Options include:
- Presentation and audio
- Presentation, audio and video of presenter
- Audio Only (Podcast)
To begin recording with Universal Capture (Personal), follow the Using Universal Capture (Personal) guide.
Can I live stream a presentation?
Universal Capture now provides the option to Live Stream a recording. Live streaming should only be used where absolutely necessary. There is little difference between a recorded lecture, that students watch at any time, and a live stream as there is no interactivity with the participants.
The University recommends using asynchronous (not live, anytime) activities so that students are fully able to engage with the learning materials at any time.
How do I edit Universal Capture (Personal) recordings?
You can edit your recordings in the Echo360 portal. The Editing recordings guide details the editing process.
How do I access my Universal Capture (Personal) recordings?
Recordings made in Universal Capture (Personal) can be published to your personal Library or to an existing section in Echo360. For example, you could publish your recording to a module section.
Recordings published in your personal Library are accessible only to you.
Recordings published to a module section in Echo360, can be accessed via the Lecture Capture (Echo360) block in the corresponding Moodle module space.
How will students access my Universal Capture (Personal) recordings?
Students will access your recordings via the Lecture Capture (Echo360) block in their Moodle module spaces. When you are finished recording in Universal Capture (Personal) publish it to the corresponding module section in Echo360.
How can I get my recordings transcribed or apply closed captions?
As of August 18th all recording published via Echo360, including those created via Lecture Capture or Universal Capture have transcriptions generated automatically. The transcript can then be manually applied as closed captions. For more information, please read our guide on Echo360 Automated Transcripts and Closed Captions.
For guidance on the regulatory requirements related to audio and video transcription and captions, please read the guidance on Accessible video and audio content.
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