Video Recording Options

There are several options available to 91ÁÔÆæ faculty and staff that can help you create a video recording. Please review each option to help you decide which technology will fulfill your recording needs.

Camtasia

Camtasia is software available to current faculty and staff at San Jose State University at no cost. Camtasia will allow you to create and edit videos offline to share asynchronously with students, colleagues, or to the public. 

Strength: Flexibility of creating and editing videos to your liking

Panopto

Panopto is a video creation and management tool that provides students a variety of ways to engage with video content. For faculty and staff, Panopto's integration with Canvas and Zoom offers a smooth workflow to store and share videos, edit automatically generated captions and view video analytics.

Strengths: Multi-screen recording, easy captioning, well-organized video storage and flexible sharing capability. Versatile playback options. Integrates within Canvas courses.

Snagit

Snagit is a screen capture software primarily focused on taking screenshots but does offer the ability to make simple screen capture videos.

Strength: Produces videos much faster without having to worry about many editing features.

Zoom

Zoom provides the flexibility to host synchronous meetings online with any user and later share a recording of the meeting for user unable to attend asynchronously. 

Strength: Record online meetings with any user (or a group of users) to share and view asynchronously.