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Lecture Capture

at Aberystwyth UniversityTim Davies & Iola Hagen

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The Team

• Nigel Thomas – Media & Technical• Martin Pugh – Media & Technical• Kate Wright – E-Learning• Mary Jacob - E-Learning• Johanna Westwood - E-Learning• Gareth Hall – Psychology• Iola Hagen – Software Development• Tim Davies – IS Management

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What is Lecture Capture?

• The capture of video, audio, and content (slides / screen capture), or any combination, that makes up a lecture or presentation

• Tutors put up a link to the recording• Students can then play back and jump to

specific sections of the lecture

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History

• Using Windows Media Server since 2003. – Live events (e.g. graduation)– Lectures (MS Producer)

• 2006+ interest in dedicated lecture capture systems. Looked at Mediasite.

• Piloted Echo360 in 2008• 2009 Panopto CourseCast – Socrates

programme

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Drivers to change

• Business continuity• Successful bid to L&T fund for money– Software installation & maintenance– Microphones in teaching rooms– Small number of cameras

• Support from PVC Learning & Teaching

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Lecture Capture Success

• Senior Management buy-in• Availability• Familiar interface• Self service• Self help• Targeted Awareness Raising• Assistance when requested• Word-of-mouth

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Panopto Technical Overview

Web Server

Data Server

Panopto Recorder

Panopto Database

Blackboard

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Storage• Data Server

– Web Ready (WR) Quality: Add 265GB for every 1,000 hours of WR that you want to keep (265MB/hr). Note: Once deleted, you can no longer re-edit or re-encode.

– High Quality Compressed (HQC) Quality: Add 660GB for every 1,000 hours of HQC that you want to keep (660MB/hr). Note: Once deleted, you can no longer re-edit or re-encode.

– Digital Video (DV) Quality: Add 13TB for every 1,000 hours of DV that you want to keep (13GB/hr). Note: Once DV is deleted, you can no longer re-edit or re-encode.

• Web Server

– Web Ready (WR) Quality: Add 390GB for every 1,000 hours of web stream video that you want to make available (390MB/hr).

– High Quality Compressed (HQC) Quality: Add 390GB for every 1,000 hours of web stream video that you want to make available (390MB/hr).

– Digital Video (DV) Quality: Add 390GB for every 1,000 hours of web stream video that you want to make available (390MB/hr).

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Linking to Blackboard

• Panopto Building Block– Install BB – Configure with web server settings– Configure on Web server– Provision Courses/Modules– Synchronise Users

• Issues– No global synchronising– Not available in Blackboard Learn course tools menu

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Usage Statistics

• Number of Recoding‘s– Average 2 recording an hour during the teaching

term.– Over 1500 recordings in total

• Departmental Use– Business school mandated for First year Modules

• Increase in viewing before and during exams

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Usage Statistics

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Usage Stats

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Usage Stats

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Data Retention

• How long should we keep files– One week on teaching machines– 3 months on Data server– Indefinitely in web server

• Currently– 420GB of data stored on the Web Server– 186GB of data stored on the Data Server

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Student Perceptions 1Gareth Hall “Students’ learning experience with Panopto Coursecast at Aberystwyth University”

• In a student survey 98% of respondents indicated that they found lecture capture helpful in their studies.

• 81% of students who used lecture capture indicated that one way of helping them choose where to study in the future was if the University offered lecture capture.

• Over half told us that it helped them understand difficult concepts.

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Student Perceptions 2Gareth Hall “Students’ learning experience with Panopto Coursecast at Aberystwyth University”

• Revise prior to exam (68%) – highest usage• To clarify concepts that they did not

understand during lectures (63%)• To make up for a missed lecture (51%)• To help with assignments (35%)• To review straight after lecture (19%)• To help with English as a 2nd language (9%)• Attendance – not affected

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Student Perceptions 3Gareth Hall “Students’ learning experience with Panopto Coursecast at Aberystwyth University”

• “I do accounting and sometimes you go through a number of examples and write them down (…) they go so fast it is nice to look back and actually hear what the numbers mean (…) when you put the lecture capture on you can hear what she was saying ‘cos you can’t really write your notes and numbers at the same time” [Focus group 1, line 177-183]

• “You get too much information in lectures (…) but they’re saying a lot of stuff that is not on the powerpoints. So you have to get the powerpoint and get what they’re trying to say in one lecture. It just doesn’t work. So if you listen to it [the lecture] afterwards you can go over it and over it and understand more what they’re trying to tell you …” [Focus group 7, lines 80-84]

• “…when you go back to revise [from Panopto] then its good to have a starting point (…) because if you can’t remember what’s happened in a lecture and you jump straight into a book, sometimes it goes straight off your head, so it’s good to start with something” [Focus group 1, lines 226-229]

• “it’s not a substitute, I don’t think, it’s an extra resource but certainly not a substitute for going in and actually being in lecture, even if it is pre-recorded...” [Focus group 1, lines 532-534]

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More Information

• Tim Davies – [email protected]• Iola Hagen – [email protected]• IS page on recording lectures:

http://www.aber.ac.uk/en/is/media/recording• Nexus web site (AU L&T good practice)

http://nexus.aber.ac.uk/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Tags?do=viewTag&tag=lecturecapture

• Panopto: http://www.panopto.com/