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      Classroom Capture

      Software Capture

      Kaltura Classroom

      As of Fall 2019, all centrally supported classroom computers have Kaltura Classroom installed on them for recording classroom lecture content centered around presentation content found locally on the podium computer.  Every classroom with a podium, even the standard size classrooms, has a microphone installed on top of the podium that allows for spoken content to be recorded as well.  In more advanced systems, audio from wireless microphones, classroom microphones as well as video feeds from cameras can also be captured if the room has these capabilities. 

      Videos captured on this software can be easily loaded to VCU's Kaltura MediaSpace directly into a user's specific Media Files or even automated to publish to VCU's Learning Management System.

      To find out what equipment is available in your classroom, please review our lists of classrooms by building for the Monroe Park Campus and the MCV Campus.     

      For more information about Kaltura Classroom, please visit our Kaltura Classroom (Software Capture) website.

      Hardware Capture Appliances

      While limited in deployment, there are some centrally supported classrooms that have a hardware appliance installed. The main difference between hardware and software capture solutions involves the ability to record sources that are not on the computer such as laptops and other auxiliary devices, or recording software that would require the simultaneous use of resources on the computer (such as microphones and cameras).  In most spaces, these appliances are owned by a school or department that has a high volume of classes in the associated room and funds the maintenance and licensing contract for the devices.  There are currently two manufacturers associated with capture appliances in our classrooms, Cattura capture appliances, and Echo360. Technology Services' central support for Echo360 hardware capture will be discontinued on June 30, 2020, in favor of the Cattura CaptureCast Appliances, which support publishing to Kaltura.    If an echo360 appliance is still available in a central classroom after June 30, 2020, it is owned and supported by the School's technology team listed below.

      Centrally Supported Locations with a hardware capture appliance: 

      Building Room Device Type Support Group
      Egyptian Building Auditorium Cattura Academic Technologies
      College of Health Professions (CHP) 1013  Cattura  College of Health Professions Information Technology
      College of Health Professions (CHP) 1050 Cattura College of Health Professions Information Technology
      College of Health Professions (CHP) 3050 Cattura College of Health Professions Information Technology
      College of Health Professions (CHP) 6000 Cattura College of Health Professions Information Technology
      Kontos Medical Science Building (KMSB) Auditorium Cattura Academic Technologies
      Lyons 424 Echo360 School of Dentistry Information Technology
      Lyons 442 Echo360 School of Dentistry Information Technology
      Lyons 443 Echo360 School of Dentistry Information Technology
      Perkinson 3105 Echo360 School of Dentistry Information Technology
      Perkinson 3121 Echo360 School of Dentistry Information Technology
      Sanger Hall 1-044 Cattura Academic Technologies
      Sanger Hall 2-020 Cattura Academic Technologies
      School of Nursing 1009 Echo360 School of Nursing Information Technology
      School of Nursing 1011 Echo360 School of Nursing Information Technology
      School of Nursing 1013 Echo360 School of Nursing Information Technology
      School of Nursing 2008J Echo360 School of Nursing Information Technology
      Smith 103 Echo360 School of Pharmacy Information Technology
      Smith 224 Echo360 School of Pharmacy Information Technology

      For more information about Lecture Capture 

      Kaltura Capture and MediaSpace 

      Echo360

      VCU Lecture Capture Transition Timeline 

       

       

       

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