Lecture Capture

The Elentra lecture capture tool allows you to automate recordings of selected event types in specific room locations and have the resulting videos automatically posted as resources to the relevant events.

The Elentra lecture capture tool is designed to work with NCast telepresenters. For more technical information about how to setup your NCast tools, the required calendar feeds, etc. please contact Elentra.

To use the lecture capture tools you must provide the appropriate information in various parts of the platform. You need to:

1. Define the technical resources in rooms stored in System Settings > Locations.

2. Configure courses to automatically record sessions via Manage Courses (see here for more information; you'll need to scroll down to the lecture capture section).

3. Optionally manage events as needed to edit recording status (e.g. if faculty can turn recordings on and off).

4. Ensure faculty have consented to recording their sessions in their user profile.

By default, the lecture capture tool requires faculty to consent to video capture. Organizations can optionally override this with a database setting (setting: capture_consent_enabled). If you wish to override the requirement for faculty to consent to video capture, speak to a developer about changing the setting.

At the start of each day, a behind the scenes task checks all events that are set to be recorded that day. The system automatically creates a streaming resource that will be available 30 minutes after the end of the recording and posted to the relevant event.

The display of lecture capture resources 30 minutes after the event is the default setting. This can be changed in the database to reflect a different amount of time (setting: capture_min_available_after_event). Speak to a developer if you want to change the setting.

Learners will see resources added to events as shown here.

Database Setting Options

Database Setting	Use
capture_enabled
capture_consent_enabled
capture_min_available_after_event
capture_resource_default_embed_code
capture_stream_time_format
capture_resource_default_title
capture_resource_default_description
capture_stream_file_format
capture_calendar_id
capture_google_app_name
capture_google_sync_interval
capture_google_calendar_sync_enabled