Recording and Saving Lectures in Brightspace

Made by Deb Hatland with Scribe

This guide provides essential instructions for effectively recording lectures and saving them in Brightspace, ensuring a seamless experience for educators and students alike. Viewing this guide will empower users to maximize their use of Brightspace for academic purposes.

Tip: You can record a lecture and have yourself and your screen in it by using your course integration into Microsoft Teams.

1. Access the course shell where you would like to share the recording.

2. In the bottom right corner, you will see there is a place for you to set up an integration with Microsoft Teams.

Alert: Follow these directions to set up this integration and to set up a channel within the team https://helpdesk.taylor.edu/help/article/322977

3. Once you set up this team, you can go into Microsoft Teams and access the team by clicking on the Teams tab on the left side of the page.

4. Access the team by clicking on the graphic for the team, and the channel where you want to record the meeting.

5. Set up a meeting by clicking on the chevron to the right of the camera in the top right corner of the page.

6. The meeting can take place immediately or you can schedule a date and time. Clicking Schedule a meeting provides you with different options. One main option to note is the option to have the meeting repeat. Click on the chevron to the right of Does not repeat and you will see the following options.

Tip: If you schedule a meeting you will need to click Send and invite attendees if you want people to attend.

7. If your goal is to record the lecture and share the link in Brightspace, you do not need to schedule a meeting. When you are ready to record, click on Meet now.

Tip: Click Join now

8. Once you join the meeting, you can invite people to join by clicking on, copy the link, add participants or share via default email. If all you want to do is record your lecture, click the X on that screen:

9. Click the following:

More
Record and Transcript
Start Recording - this will also start the transcript option

Tip: If you want your students to see you, make the camera available by clicking on it and determining the camera to use, background, brightness, and other video effects. If you decide to use video effects, make sure you click Apply and turn on video.

10. Once you have started your recording you can share content on your screen. Click the share button in the top right corner of the screen. A red line will appear around the content/screen you are sharing.

11. Determine the following options:

Include sound
Presenter mode
Screen or Window (click Window to show what you have available to share)

12. You can also choose to access one of the following:

Microsoft Whiteboard
Content from Camera
PowerPoint Live

Tip: When you click to share a screen or a window, your hosting screen will shrink to a small box that shows you or your avitar, recording time, camera, microphone, invited guest access, and the stop sharing box. You will also see some of this information across the top of the screen you are recording.

13. When you have completed your session click the following:

Stop sharing
More
Record and Transcript
Stop Recording
Stop
Leave - click the chevron - click End meeting
End

Alert: The meeting recording will become available within the team. The length of the recording will determine when it is available.

14. Once it is ready, you will see Meeting in “the channel name you chose” Ended. Below this is “See Details”. Click on this to open the recording information.

15. Click on the video and it will open in Stream. You can also click on Transcript to download it or delete it.

Tip: You can now review the content and edit it if needed. You will also find a transcript of the video if you did not turn that off when you were recording.

16. To keep the video long-term, you will need to click on the 3 dots directly above the video and click download. You can save the video to your computer and share the link in your course.

Tip: You can also make the team available to your students and allow them to access the video from there.