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Overview
Narrated presentations are a great way to connect with your audience and share ideas in a personal, engaging way. Faculty may create presentations deliver lectures, explain complex topics, or provide feedback. Students may create individual or group presentations to showcase projects, discuss research, or practice presentation skills.
This guide walks you through how to record a narrated presentation using Zoom or PowerPoint, save it as a video file, and share it in your myLesley course via Kaltura Media.
Record Your Presentation
Record Your Presentation in Zoom
You may use Zoom to quickly and easily create a narrated presentation. Simply create your presentation slides using your software of choice (ex PowerPoint, Google Slides, Keynote, etc.), open Zoom, share your screen, and record your presentation.
To begin, open the Zoom application on your computer. If you do not have the Zoom application installed, you may download Zoom Workplace, install it, and login to your Lesley University Zoom account via SSO.
From the Zoom application, go to the Home 
tab and select New Meeting.
Zoom will launch a new meeting.
Alternately, if you will be co-presenting with others (ex a group presentation), you may wish to Schedule a Zoom Meeting and invite others to join your Zoom meeting.Before the meeting launches a preview screen will prompt you to check your audio and video settings.
Refer to the support resources to check your settings:
Click Start to start your meeting.
Open your presentation. Then, at the bottom of your Zoom window, click the Share button.
You may opt to share your entire screen, specific application windows, documents, and more. Depending on your presentation type you may also set the presenter layout.
Refer to the Zoom support articles for more information and detailed instructions:
- Sharing your screen or desktop on Zoom
- Applying a presenter layout when screen sharing in Zoom
- Screen sharing a PowerPoint presentation in Zoom
Once you are ready to present, click the Record button. If you do not see the Record button in the meeting controls, click the More button to open additional options.
You may opt to record to your computer (recommended) or to the cloud. The recording will start when a recording indicator appears in the upper left corner of your Zoom window.
Refer to the Getting started with computer and cloud recording support article for more information and detailed instructions.
Once you have finished recording, your presentation will be converted to an MP4 file and saved to your computer or the cloud.
Record Your Presentation in PowerPoint
You can create and record your presentation directly in the desktop version of Microsoft PowerPoint! All eligible staff, students, and core faculty may download a desktop version of Microsoft Office 365 applications.
The following instructions will walk you through recording your presentation using the desktop version of PowerPoint for Microsoft 365. If you are using an older version of PowerPoint, please refer to the Record a slide show with narration and slide timings support article and select your version of PowerPoint for detailed instructions.
Please note that, at this time, the online version of PowerPoint, PowerPoint for the web, does not support recording a slide show.
To record your presentation, click on the Record button in the top app bar.
You can also record by clicking on the Record tab and selecting one of the options.
The recording screen displays the recording options at the top of the screen. If you have slide notes, these will appear above your slides so that you can use them as a teleprompter as you record your presentation. You also have the option to record your webcam alongside your presentation.
If you are recording your webcam, you have the option to Show Background or Blur Background. Click on the Select the Camera Mode to select your background mode.
You may change your recording view in the Views menu. You may switch between Teleprompter, Presenter View, or Slide View.
Once you are ready to record, click Start Recording. A countdown will begin.
As you record, use the onscreen laser, colored pen, or highlighter tools to call attention to your slide content.
Use the Previous or Next arrows to navigate through your slides. If you added slide transitions, you will not be able to narrate while those are playing. You will need to let the transitions play before you resume your narration.
Once you have finished recording, click Stop.
Once you are satisfied with your recording, click Export to save your recorded presentation as a video.
Give your video a name and select Browse to choose your save location. Then click Export Video to save your video. Your video will be saved as an mp4.
Additional information and a tutorial video may be found on the Record a slide show with narration and slide timings support article.
Upload Your Recorded Presentation to myLesley
Once you have recorded your presentation and saved your video file, you may upload it your myLesley course via Kaltura Media.
Ultra Course View
You may add your recorded presentation directly into your course anywhere you see the Content Editor, including Discussions, Assignments, Ultra Documents (faculty only) and more.
Locate the place where you want to add your video and click the Insert Content (+) button in the content editor. This will open a menu. Select Content Market.
This will bring you into the Content Market. Select Kaltura Media.
This will take you to your Kaltura My Media. The My Media area is where all of your Kaltura media is stored. From here, you may select previously added media, upload new media, or record new media.
To upload your recorded presentation, click on the + Add New button at the top of the page. This will open a menu. Select Media Upload.
This will open a new window. You may drag and drop your file to the Media Upload area or click Choose a File to Upload to locate the file on your computer.
Once you have selected your file, your video will begin to upload. Depending on the size of your file and your connection speed it may take several minutes.
Once your video has uploaded, you will be prompted to edit the title and (optionally) add tags and a description. Once you have finished, click </> Save and Embed.
You will then be brought back into your course and the Insert Content Market Item window will pop up. You may edit your media's display name and click Insert.
Your video will be embedded into your content. Make any other changes to your content and Save or Submit.
Original Course View
You may add your recorded presentation directly into a Discussion, Assignment, Item (faculty only), or anywhere you see the Text/Content Editor.
Locate the place in your course where you wish to upload your presentation. From the content editor, click the Add Content (+) button.
Scroll down to the Additional Tools section and select Kaltura Media.
This will take you to your Kaltura My Media. The My Media area is where all of your Kaltura media is stored. From here, you may select previously added media, upload new media, or record new media.
To upload your recorded presentation, click on the + Add New button at the top of the page. This will open a menu. Select Media Upload.
This will open a new window. You may drag and drop your file to the Media Upload area or click Choose a File to Upload to locate the file on your computer.
Once you have selected your file, your video will begin to upload. Depending on the size of your file and your connection speed it may take several minutes.
Once your video has uploaded, you will be prompted to edit the title and (optionally) add tags and a description. Once you have finished, click </> Save and Embed.
You will be brought back into your course. Your video will be embedded into your content. Make any other changes to your content and Save or Submit.
Additional Resources
Download Microsoft Office
All current and active students, staff, core faculty, and emeritus faculty are eligible to download and install Microsoft Office on their personal devices while they are attending or working at Lesley. For more information, refer to the Downloading Microsoft Office 365 support article.
Adjunct faculty, alumni, and retirees may use the web version of the Microsoft applications or purchase the Microsoft Office Suite for their personal devices.
PowerPoint Tutorials
Microsoft's support site has resources to walk you through designing, creating, presenting, and sharing presentations: PowerPoint Help & Training support site.
Zoom Resources and Tutorials
- Download Zoom Workplace
- Getting Started with Zoom Meetings
- Sharing your Screen or Desktop on Zoom
- Zoom screen sharing features
- Getting started with recording on Zoom
Edit Captions in Kaltura Media
When you upload a video to Kaltura Media, Kaltura will automatically caption your content using automatic speech recognition (ASR), commonly known as machine captions. Machine captions are considered to be 80% accurate and accuracy may vary depending on the audio quality, clarity of speech, background noise, etc. We recommend using the machine captions as a starting point and editing them for accuracy.
For more information and detailed instructions, refer to the Kaltura Media: Captioning Video Content support article.
Support and Training
Reach out to eLearning and Instructional Support (eLIS) at elis@lesley.edu if you run into any issues, have questions or to request a 1:1 or small group training.
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