Camtasia

Simple to record and create professional-looking videos

Category:  Create & Innovate
Resource Type: Screencasting Tool

Software suite, created and published by TechSmith, for creating video tutorials and presentations directly via screencast, or via a direct recording plug-in to Microsoft PowerPoint.

Recommended by our Digital Champions:
A couple of years ago I flipped a programming modules with 165 students. I replaced lectures with additional laboratory sessions and the physical lectures with over 16 hours of instructional video content. I found Techsmith Camtasia and Panopto to be the perfect tools to facilitate this. Camtasia is an excellent and easy to use screen capture software that enables me to produce high quality instructional videos for my students very quickly. These two tools have helped me to transform my teaching practice to reflect how modern students engage with content in a digital landscape.
Shane Wilson
Shane Wilson
ATU Donegal

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Ease of Use
3/5
The tool has a user-friendly interface and it is easy for instructors and students to become skillful with in a personalized and intuitive manner.
Media Rich & Flexible Features
3/5
The tool promotes a diverse mix of representational forms e.g. audio visual textual and allows for non-sequential flexibleadaptive engagement with material
Mobile Design & Functionality
/5
Not applicable
Integration / Embedding with Moodle
3/5
The tool can be embedded as an object via HTML code or fully integrated e.g. LTI- compliant tools into Moodle while maintaining full functionality of the tool.
Support / Help
2/5
Technical support and help documentation is available directly from the software providers website andor built in to the application.
Facilitation
/5
Not Applicable
Learning Analytics
/5
Not Applicable
Enhancement of Cognitive Tasks
/5
Not Applicable
Metacognitive Engagement
/5
Not Applicable
Collaboration
/5
Not Applicable
Sign Up / Sign In
2/5
Either instructors are the only users required to provide personal information to set up an account or the tool has been vetted through appropriate channels to ensure strict adherence to local institutional or personal policiesstandards for protecting the collection and use of student personal data by a third party group.
Archiving, Saving, and Exporting Data
3/5
Users can archive save or import and export content or activity data in a variety of formats
User-focused Participation
3/5
The tool is designed to address the needs of diverse users their various literacies and capabilities thereby widening opportunities for participation in learning
Cost of Use
1/5
Use of the tool requires a fee membership or subscription Use of the tool requires a purchase that is likely to pose a financial burden on students.
There is no IT support available for this product in any of the institutes.

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