Decide if you need to write out a script for yourself or perhaps jotting down a simple outline or some reminders will be sufficient.If it is necessary to go longer than five minutes, you may want to consider dividing your topic into two or more screencasts, if appropriate (e.g., 'Getting Started with DSpace Access Controls, Part One' and '.Part Two'). An effective screencast lasts about five minutes. Pick a topic from the KnowledgeBase table of contents for DSpace or Fedora and give your screencast the same name as the KnowledgeBase topic you've selected.Here are some suggestions for planning your screencast:

To the extent that your recording is clear, interesting to watch, and instructive, your screencast will be a success. The viewer will be watching a recording of your computer screen, following your mouse movements, and listening to your explanation of what you are doing. Good topics for screencasts are ones that show people clear steps for completing specific tasks online. This guide will help you through the five easy steps to creating a screencast:įirst, select the topic of your screencast. Screencasts are an effective way of providing the user communities quick tutorials on specific tasks or functionality.

Screencast software captures what is happening on the computer screen along with an audio recording of the speaker explaining what he/she is doing. Rebuilding Fedora Indexes Screencast contributed by Chris Wilper from DuraSpaceĪ screencast is a video of someone showing how to do something on a computer.

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