Choosing an Audio or Video Recording Tool - Canvas

Planning Your Recording

Before you choose your recording tool, make a plan. What are your goals for the video or audio recording? What does your audience need to see or hear? How much content do you have? What hardware do you have available? How dependable is your Internet connection?

Next, think about what you want to say. Write a script or an outline. If your script or outline looks like it will be more than about 10 minutes,  break it up into shorter chunks, each focused on a single topic. Short chunks allow students to jump straight to the topics they need, and they make your recordings easier to deal with if students have poor or spotty internet connections. 

Finally, see the Kaltura - Video Tips for Better Recording guide for tool-agnostic tips on preparing for your recording, getting good quality video, getting good quality audio, and post-production editing and captioning.

The Tools

Now you're ready to choose a recording tool. The following tools are enterprise offerings available to all UWS instructors through the DLE or Office 365. Individual institutions may offer additional video or audio recording options.

Recording While Online

When creating the video and audio as an instructor, consider if you will create the content directly over the internet or if you want to create the content with the audio/video locally (offline) then upload the content after it is recorded.  

Instructors with a stable internet connection have several recording tools to choose from depending on their goals and the hardware they have available:  

Recording While Offline

If an instructor wants to create a video or audio recording locally (without an Internet connection) and then upload it to Canvas, they have fewer recording tools to choose from. Our recommendation depends on the instructor's recording goals and the hardware they have available: