Tools for Creating Teaching Videos

"Start recording" button -> Starts the recording

For a simple video recording with BigBlueButton, press "Start recording" at the top of the page and confirm your selection again. You can also pause the recording at the top of the page. The recording is saved directly to Moodle in the "lobby" of your BigBlueButton room.

BigBlueButton records the individual elements of your video conference separately, which facilitates anonymisation of participants.

Important: Make sure that the instance type "Room/Activity with recordings" is selected in the Moodle settings of your BBB meeting room to enable recordings.

Further settings -> Start recording -> Starts recording

To start a recording in Jitsi, you have to select the three dots "Further settings" under the toolbar in your corresponding conference. In the list that appears, click on "Start recording".

Important: A Dropbox account is required for saving the recording!

"Record" button -> Starts recording

As the host of a Zoom conference, you can record your online event by clicking on the recording icon in the toolbar at the bottom of the video window. In Zoom's settings, you can also make further specifications for the recording, such as recording separate audio tracks for the individual participants or optimising video for third-party editors. Furthermore, Zoom saves your video recording to a folder you specify in advance.

The central web-based video service GrypsTube provides university members with an open platform for videos of all kinds. If you have a user account, you can upload, share and save unlimited videos to playlists on GrypsTube.

You do NOT need a user account to watch, share and download videos on Grypstube.

To upload videos and create playlists, you can apply for a user account via the central account management.

For more information, please contact the University Computer Centre [de].

The embedding of Grypstube videos is mainly done via the corresponding link to the video (URL), via an embedding code or via QR code. You can also make further adjustments, e.g. to start the video at a certain point or make the video a loop.

More information is available here [de].

The results of projects, classes or research work that end up in media products often also want to be seen! Your finished video, audio, object or text files now need to be made accessible, shared, sent, uploaded or embedded.

The Groupware webmailer allows you to transfer files up to 25 MB to other recipients.
This makes it difficult to send video files that are rich in content via email.
More information is provided by the University Computer Centre here [de].
You can usually compress your files by selecting low quality settings when exporting your finished file in programmes such as Shotcut, MovieMaker or Camtasia, or by searching for converters/compressors on the internet.
(however, this can not be recommended due to unwanted loss of quality or websites containing pushy advertising).

On the other hand, Nextcloud can be used for storing and sharing a wide variety of data because it is a web-based software.

Each university member can log in with their user ID and has 10 GB of storage.
An integrated OnlyOffice document server makes it possible to edit and share text, spreadsheets or even presentation files simultaneously.
 

If you want to share a folder or a single file, proceed as follows:

• Click on the "share" icon next to the element to be shared (Fig. 1).

• A window now appears on the right in which you can

  • 1. directly specify the name/email of the person who is allowed to access this item

  • 2. or configure a link that gives others access to this item (Fig. 2).
    
    You can edit the access rights yourself and determine, for example, that users can only upload files or that access to the element has additional password protection or that the link expires after a certain period of time. You can find these settings by selecting the three dots on the far right of the "share link" option (Fig. 3). After making the changes, save the link again by clicking on the icon to the left of the three dots to copy the new link to the clipboard.