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While Lecturecast can be used to record any type of sheduled scheduled Modular or Non-Modular event. Lecturecast it is best suited to the capture of didatic lecture style presentations given from the front of class.

All our Lecturecast installations with a camera present are set-up for that camera to be directed to either the podium or the area at the front of the teaching space. The audio equipment in the room is also designed only to record sound from the the podium area or that of the speaker directly from lapel microphones. It is not designed to capture any audience participation, unless the teaching space as been designed to accomodate roving hand microphones.

Lecturecast has not been installed or designed to support discussion based activities and if you require such activities recorded to contact the Digital Education team for advice via digi-ed@ucl.ac.uk

At the current time UCL does not have an opt-out policy for Lecturecast. Use of the system is purely opt-in at the moment, so its use is up to the individual/department to decide.

There are plans to move towards opt-out in coming years, but any such change will be agreed by Educational Committee first, with procedures and tools to facilitate this. Ground work is needed before this, specifically to clarify legal and policy aspects, and a Working Group has been set up under the Office of Vice Provost for Education to review and implement required policies to support an opt out Lecturecast solution.

At the current time the UCL Lecturecast service does not support Live Streaming as part of the service offering. Only lecture capture and associated engagment tools are available as part of the service.

For all live streaming needs please contact in the first instance the Digital Media team via stream@ucl.ac.uk

There are two way to do this:

1. Check Via the Lecturecast activity link in Moodle

Navigate Click through the link to the associated Lecturecast activity in Moodlesection. Scheduled events should appear as shown below

2. Via the Lecturecast Scheduler

Check that the event appears under the 'Scheduled' tab  in the Lecturecast Scheduler.  The status column in the Scheduler should also display a 'scheduled' status

Moodle courses For a given course, a Lecturecast activity link (or links) need to be added within Moodle and then mapped to Lecturecast sections and Lecturecast activities added and linkedthe appropriate Lecturecast section. Roles and their associated rights to within a Lecturecast section are assigned at the point of clicking through a Lecturecast activity set up for a given sectionthe link(s). Rights assigned are:

Students and non-editing tutors on the Moodle course → Students on the linked Lecturecast section
Tutors and course administrators on the Moodle course → Instructors on the linked Lecturecast section

Find out how to link a Lecturecast section on a Moodle course in the Linking Moodle to Lecturecast training guides.

Echo360 is a web-based application that uses a browser to view content and as such has certain browser requirements. Beyond ensuring you're using a supported browser, there are also some browser configuration settings you may need to check or change to successfully use Echo360 (especially if using Safari on iOS/MacOS).