Author: Steve Taylor

Screencast-O-Matic (a wordplay on the Castomatic® fishing reel) is a free recording application that you can download to use on your Mac, Windows, or Chromebook computer. Click here to download.

You can use this program to record your screen activity, to record yourself, with your computer’s camera, or both– a screen recording that includes a small picture-in-picture video of yourself. When you’ve saved your recording, you can upload it to your Moodle site.

The free version of this program will limit the length of your recordings to 15 minutes. (This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, as it helps learners to have smaller chunks of learning.) There is a limited number of Pro licenses available; contact ACS if you’re interested in getting one.

Here’s an overview of the program.

Please share your experience or suggestions about using this function…

The most common video editing needed is to remove some unneeded footage at the beginning or end of your recording (known as “trimming.”) Here’s how to do that in Quicktime Player.

If you’ve created a Keynote presentation for your class, you can add your own narration to it, for your students to hear. Keynote can record not only your remarks, but also the timings that you use as you advance from one slide to the next.

The video below will show you how to make the recording. When you’re done, you can save the presentation as a video file, which will require no special software for viewing. Then you can upload your finished video file to your Moodle site.