Anyone using Tegrity for lecture capture?

Submitted by edmunds on Fri, 08/14/2009 - 09:21.

Elmer et al.,

We're invested in Echo360 here at the UNC School of Law. It's been a
successful implementation, one which we rolled out modestly and without
much fanfare at first. But more and more faculty have come to appreciate
it and the students love it. We've got it enabled in all our large and
medium sized classrooms and tape hundreds of class per semester.

We only tend to capture audio here (our profs, like many, hate being
videotaped) but do occasionally capture VGA input for PowerPoint. These
become "enhanced podcasts," with chapter marks embedded as slides change
or mouse clicks are made. The Echo360 workflow started off a bit clunky
but has improved with the last couple releases. We're are running the
latest 2.5 release on a Windows 2003 server, which passes the processed
media files off to our Xserve, the content/distribution server.

In addition to Tegrity, you may want to investigate Panopto. It was
developed at Carnegie Mellon and is being offered to K-20 for FREE via
Panopto's Socrates Project. Here's a link to more info:

http://www.panopto.com/solutions_education_socrates.aspx

Best,
Doug