What options are available for publishing my lecture recordings?

CAEN's Lecture Recording Service was built to help instructors have a fully automated, hands-off approach to lecture recording and distribution. However, you may wish to adjust the settings if the defaults don’t work for you. 

Things to know when configuring your site:

• A recording needs to be published before it can be viewed

• Viewers are any individuals permitted to watch a video - they are added on the site info page, granted access via canvas (if linked) and from a course listing if the site is set up that way

• Auto post is a site setting that controls whether new recordings are automatically published or not

Here’s an overview of your options:

For sites requested via one of our forms, the default site setting is Auto post on. As recordings are made, the recording is published about an hour after it was recorded. You can choose to edit these recordings, unpublish them, or delete them. Most instructors stick with this default setting, and all students will be able to watch the lectures as they are made.

For sites automatically set up, the default setting is Auto post off. As recordings are made, the recording remains in an unpublished state, and no one can watch the video. You will then have to publish the recording.

To publish/unpublish a recording:

• If you want to change the Auto post site setting, see How do I set my lecture recording site to automatically publish recordings after they are made? Existing recordings will remain unchanged.

• If you want to restrict who can see specific recordings, see How do I share individual recordings with students?

• If you want to publish/unpublish a single video, see How do I publish / unpublish a lecture recording?

• If you want to publish/unpublish multiple videos at the same time, see How do I edit multiple recordings at once?