Tips & Tricks for Making Your Moodle Video By: Sara Zachary Thompson & Jenny Owens.
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Transcript of Tips & Tricks for Making Your Moodle Video By: Sara Zachary Thompson & Jenny Owens.
Tips & Tricks for Making
Your Moodle Video
By: Sara Zachary Thompson & Jenny Owens
Uses for Spalding.present.me
• Creating a welcome video
• Going over the syllabus
• Creating lectures
• Providing feedback
• Other creative ideas??
Initial Preparation
• Check to make sure you have a spalding.present.me account
• Have a plan or basic outline of what you want to cover in your video• It is necessary to provide a transcript of all videos in
order to UDL compliant
• If you’re using PowerPoint, make the slides in advance and upload them into spalding.present.me• *Note: Do not record audio files in PowerPoint, as this
can cause issues. Instead audio can be recorded directly into spalding.present.me
• Make sure you have good internet connection
Environmental Factors
• Pay attention to your surroundings!!• What is the probability of getting
interrupted? • Is the environment too noisy?• What is your backdrop?
• Notice any clutter in the space
• How is the lighting?• Make sure to avoid backlighting
Personal Factors
• Dress professionally
• Make eye contact with the camera
• Avoid reading directly from notes
• BE YOURSELF!!!!
Ideas for Increasing Engagement
• Keep lectures to 30 minutes or less
• Add in props or visual stimuli
• PowerPoints with pictures add an extra visual• Do not add too much text per slide
• Be enthusiastic (versus a monotone voice)
• BE CREATIVE!
Adding Screenshots
• If you would like to show a screenshot of your computer screen:• Get your computer to the page you
would like to screenshot• Hit the print screen button (PrtScr) on a
PC or command-shift-3 on a mac• The screenshot will create a file, which
can be pasted into a PowerPoint slide
Making Your First Video
• You’ve signed up, logged in and are ready to make your first video!
• Click on the Create tab at the top of the page, and you’ll be taken to the upload page.
• Choose the type of video you would like to create.
• Click Proceed and you can then choose your file to upload. • Supported files: PowerPoint, PDF (you can export
from Keynote and Prezi to PDF), word document, or Google doc.
Making Your First Video
• When the file has uploaded, you’ll be taken to a new tab while your file converts so it works with Spalding.present.me.
• Once it’s converted, you’ll see a green Record button appear to the right.
• Click Record and the slides will be loaded into the recorder application (recording has not begun yet).
• The website will do some checks and ask for permission to use your webcam and microphone (click allow).
Doing a “Test Run”
• Say a few words just to make sure your microphone is working. • You’ll see the meter on the right hand side move
up and down as you talk.
• Look at the backdrop and your positioning in the camera to know exactly what can be seen
• Make sure PowerPoints are downloaded properly and that you know how to go to different slides• Use the right & left arrow keys to move your
slides forwards and back
Making Your First Video
• Click the red Record button and you’ll get a 5 second countdown recording starts.
• When you’ve either reached the last slide, or are ready to stop, click the Stop button and you will stop recording. • If you’re on the last slide, you can also click
‘Next’ and that will stop the recording too.
• Click ‘End & Review’ and you will be taken to the Publish page.
Review Your Work
• After you stop recording, make sure to review your video to ensure that you are happy with the outcome
• Re-check the following:• Did you say everything you meant to?• How does the backdrop look?• Is the sound loud enough?• Is the video engaging?
Example Video
• https://spalding.present.me/embed/922/400/336
Embedding to Moodle
• Once the video is created, click on the Embed option
• Select the middle size on the next screen that appears. Then select Copy to Clipboard
• Go to the course where you wish to load the video
• Click on Add an Activity or Resource
Embedding to Moodle
• Use the radio button to select Label and click on Add.
• Click on HTML in the toolbar and add any text you like then click Ctrl V at the same time to copy the code from your clipboard.
• Click Update on the lower left-hand side of the pop-up window
• Click on Save and Return to Course