Camtasia Relay at GRCC
Relay Background
GRCC offers faculty the ability to easily record their lectures, create visual orientations, build video feedback of student work, and to author multimedia lessons using a product called Camtasia Relay. Camtasia Relay was selected after a campus Camtasia Relay Pilot for it's ease of use, cost effectiveness, and for it's flexibility.
In a nutshell, Camtasia Relay is an easy, efficient, and effective way to record your computer screen along with your voice narration through your microphone on your computer.
Here are the essential steps to use Camtasia Relay to record your screen:
- Launch the Camtasia Relay Recorder and login with your campus username and password,
- Select the Raidercast Profile and click the REC button,
- Name your presentation and click the Submit button when finished,
- Place the link you receive via email in Bb.
Camtasia Relay is available in all multimedia classrooms at GRCC. Relay can also be downloaded and installed on your laptop or home computer. You can download the recorder from http://relay.grcc.edu (Please Note: Most classrooms do not have a microphone permanently installed, therefore you will need a microphone to record audio using a campus classroom computer.)
Benefits of Relay
- Better class time use
- Increase student retention rates
- Increase accessibility for learning to occur outside of the classroom
- Efficient and easy way for faculty to create multimedia and tutorials
- Effective way for students to review important pieces of lecture
- Better way for students to practice notetaking for fast paced classes
- Better class time use.
- Ability for students to keep up with the class if absent
- Online and distance learning students feel better connected and benefit from visual lecture
- Use as a prior learning activity for better classroom discussion
- New capabilities such as prior learning activity for enhanced classroom discussion
- Can also be used for training, professional development, and other campus activities such as orientations and lectures
How to Use Relay
The following video tutorials describe how to use Relay. Also, a Camtasia Relay Tip Sheet is available.
| How to Download, Install, and Use Relay |
| How to Embed a Relay Video in Blackboard |
Faculty can manage recordings, including deleting recordings no longer needed using an sFTP client such as the following:
Example Relay Recordings
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Kevin Dunn - Professor, Culinary Arts "How to Make ToFu" |
Nancy Forrest - Professor, Mathematics "MA107" |
Garret Brand - Professor, Business "Contracts" |
Gary Ebels - Professor, Criminal Justice "Blackboard and Online Orientation" |
| Sherry Knoppers - Professor, Nursing "AD 243" |
Mark Dodd - Professor, Computer Apps "Preparing a Hard Drive" |
Judith Dembowske - Professor, Business "Using Footers in Microsoft Word" |
Mursalata Muhammad - Professor, English "How to use Peer Review in Blackboard" |
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Grace Schwanda - Professor, Music |
Kate Byerwalter - Professor, Psychology "PY233" |
Rick Olsen, - Dean of Arts and Sciences "Top 10 Advising Mistakes" |
Tamara Szost - Professor, Biology "BI125" |
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Tim Koets - Professor, Computer Apps |
Brianne Lodholtz - Professor, Mathematics "MA131" |
Melanie Forbes - Professor, Mathematics "MA 104" |
What do students think about lecture capture?
Students have expressed interest in being able to view content from lectures as indicated in the following poll.
Questions?
If you have further questions, please contact the Eric Kunnen in the Distance Learning & Instructional Technologies Department.
Updated on 08-OCT-09
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