Teaching with Lecture Capture: January Faculty Forum

Dear Faculty Colleagues,

Please join us on Zoom on Friday, January 21st, at 12pm for a Faculty Forum about effective uses of Academic Technology Service’s Classroom Lecture Capture service. 

For those unfamiliar with this service, Lecture Capture is available on request to those who teach in any of the 108 general assignment classrooms equipped to record lectures. These Lecture-Capture-capable rooms can record your audio, computer output, and the document camera; additionally, 43 of these (larger) classrooms can also record video of you and any board work you may do. 

Lecture Capture recordings are saved to the relevant instructor’s account in AggieVideo, and can then be shared with an entire class or with individual students via a Canvas course page. You can find more information about this service, including a list of the Lecture-Capture-capable rooms, in the IET Service Catalog entry about Classroom Lecture Capture. Find answers to additional questions on the Lecture Capture page on the Keep Teaching site.

During the first long wave of emergency remote instruction, which left classrooms across campus empty and thus available for upgrades, multiple teams at IET were hard at work enabling more of these classrooms to be Lecture-Capture-capable. The result is that more than 30 additional classrooms have been enabled for Lecture Capture since the start of the pandemic. With the return to in-person instruction in Fall Quarter 2021, the demand for this service tripled as compared to Fall Quarter 2019, so we were all grateful for those additional rooms and for the hard-working staff who support the service.

We will be joined by the coordinators of the Lecture Capture program, as well as by faculty in Chemistry, Evolution and Ecology, and Psychology who have Lecture Capture stories to tell. If you can join us via Zoom on Friday, we also look forward to hearing from you.

This event will be recorded (captured!) and shared subsequently via The Wheel.

Please register here to join us!

Thanks, and stay safe.

Dr. Andy Jones

Academic Associate Director, Academic Technology Services
Editor in Chief, The Wheel
University of California, Davis

Information about Lecture Capture usage from Fall Quarter 2021 shows us the incredible reach of this important campus service:

• Total recorded hours: 8355
  • Camera-operated hours: 3640
• Number of courses: 290 [208% more than FQ 2019 (94)]
  • Number of camera courses: 129 [169% more than FQ 2019 (48)]
• Weekly hours: 835.5 hours [256% more than FQ 2019 (234.5)]
  • Weekly camera hours: 364 hours [162% more than FQ 2019 (139)] 
• Max number of courses at once: 26 (TR 10:30 - 11:50)
• Earliest start: 7:00 AM (2 days)
• Latest end: 8:00 PM (4 days)
• Number of different subject codes supported: 61