Camtasia

Get Camtasia (and Snagit) for FREE as part of SWC's site license!

Camtasia allows faculty to make sophisticated screencapture videos for their students, permitting for editing and including annotation, animation, transition, and a stock music library. For the adventurous, there's even a green screen option which, like the weather report on TV news, allows instructors to stand in front of a screen showing anything you want! Explain a graph to students, take your class on a tour of a historic site, or comment on a demonstration you previously recorded.

 

Here's a bit more detail on the interface, getting some content into the timeline and making basic adjustments:

Snagit allows users to take and annotate screenshots to better direct the reader through a process.

• For a campus computer, place your order through ServiceNow:
  • Institutional Technology --> report an IT incident --> Category: Hardware/Software --> Sub-Category: Software-Install/Update/Remove ​
• For at-home use, complete the request form in the Training Services area of SharePoint Links to an external site. (login required).

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Need some Camtasia or Snagit training?

• SWC offers Camtasia and Snagit instruction several times each fall and spring semester. Check the most recent Distance Education Workshops & Webinars Links to an external site. schedule for current dates.
• Camtasia Tutorials Links to an external site. provides helpful video tutorials to get you up to speed.
• And Lynda.com subscription training (free through the CCC's Vision Resource Center Links to an external site. [formerly the Pro Learning Network] Links to an external site. account available to CA .edu college faculty members) can also walk you through your Camtasia start-up.