We are super lucky, in that our District provides us with three awesome choices for video recording!

Which software you decide to use will depend on your needs and preferences.

Snagit

Snagit is a screencapture software that takes both screencapture images and video.

With images, you can annotate them by adding arrows, boxes, text, etc.

With the video recorder, you can:

capture any portion of your screen
pause and resume recording easily
toggle your webcam on and off during recording
share videos directly to Panopto for use in Canvas classes

😎 Snagit is a remarkably user-friendly video recording system, ideal for beginners.

Camtasia

Camtasia is a video recording and editing software.

I used Camtasia to create the vast majority of the videos you find here in the Canvas Success Center.

Camtasia offers robust editing features such as:

easy trimming/ripple delete
fancy transitions
ability to annotate video by layering images and text on top of video
make images (and emojis!) pop out of nowhere
animate things to move around the screen
change the size of the picture-in-picture webcam video, to make yourself larger or smaller.

🎀 Camtasia is great for anyone looking to take their videos to the next level, with detailed and fancy editing.

Panopto

Panopto is a video recording, editing, and hosting system.

Whether you create videos in Snagit, Camtasia, Panopto – or some other video recorder, they're all going to be large files. And we’re limited on storage inside Canvas. So Panopto’s primary function is as our video hosting system. That means it is the storage space where we keep all our videos.

But, we also have access to two Panopto recording products.

Videos recorded via either Panopto product, that have multiple input sources (for example: webcam, screencapture, PowerPoint file, document/demonstration camera) will allow students to switch between those different videos at will, to zoom in on what they want to see the most.

Panopto Capture

Panopto Capture is a browser-based recorder. This means that you can launch it from within the Panopto Videos folder inside your Canvas class, and record videos that will immediately be added to that folder.

Panopto for PC or Mac

Panopto offers a downloadable program for video recording. Panopto is built for education, so you'll be able to upload a PowerPoint presentation directly into the recorder, which will be included as a source of input in the video.

🛠 Panopto is your go-to for video hosting, captioning, video quizzing, etc. But you don't have to record your videos using the Panopto recorders.

Panopto's recorders are ideal for those who wish to use multiple input sources, and allow their students to switch between the various, simultaneous videos/sources at will.