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You can choose whether or not to include a video of yourself. Audio of you talking over slides (or handwriting) is perfectly fine.
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You can choose a range of possible input methods (which can appear alongside a video of you, or can fill the screen): PowerPoint slides, any other file on your computer (including pdf slides or notes) or input from a document camera.
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You can record multiple secondary streams at once, but these will not be simultaneously visible to the viewer, who at any given time can choose which they look at. (See the two sample videos for illustrations of different possibilities.)
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If you use slides or handwritten notes in your video, please upload a copy to the course materials site so that students can have their own local copy while watching your video.
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You can add a short description of a video, which might be helpful in addition to the labelling of each video. (Eg you might label a lecture video as lecture 3, and add a very short description of the content.)
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You might want to turn off audio/screen notifications before you start recording (from email, Teams, Dropbox, etc) (within Teams, set your status to “Do not disturb”).
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If possible, have the first slide showing the title of the section, or put something visible on your document camera, and then set this as the preview image within the editor ( https://support.panopto.com/s/article/Change-the-Preview-Image ) so that the thumbnail on the recordings page makes it clear what the content is.
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If you’re showing your screen/slides, move the mouse to one corner at the start so that it’s out of the way and not a visual distraction.
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If you are recording your screen, you are advised to close anything confidential that you don’t want to be captured, such as email clients or other files that might inadvertently be visible on the way. Panopto keeps everything – if you edit a video, the original source is still recorded and preserved, although not all of it is published.
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If you do include a video of yourself (which can be very helpful), try to look directly at the camera where possible.
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If you are about to move to a new slide or clear the screen in some way, it would be helpful to pause for a moment and perhaps say that this is what you’re about to do. The students can of course pause the video while they review a section, but this becomes easier if there is a clear moment when they can do it. If you put up a line of text and then immediately move to the next slide, it is hard for the viewer to pause.
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If you make a mistake and need to redo part, or there’s an intrusive sound or pop up notification on your screen, or your cat gets in the way, just wait till the issue is over, pause for a couple of seconds to make editing easier later, and then keep going (and redo any short section needed). It is easy to cut out a section from the middle of a video ( https://support.panopto.com/s/article/Edit-a-Video ).
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After you have made your video, it is straightforward to create a “table of contents” within Panopto (see https://support.panopto.com/s/article/Table-of-Contents ), which means the viewer can click on a heading and jump straight to that point in the video. For example, you could pick out the start of a new section, or key definitions/theorems. (See the sample videos for examples.)