Overview
The Harmonize Screen Recording feature enables you to share your screen directly within Harmonize and talk over a slide deck, presentation, or any other information you'd like to share. This feature is available to students and instructors via the Harmonize Editor.
Interactive Tutorial
Use the interactive tutorial below to learn about Harmonize groups. Some tips:
- Turn the volume up! Alternatively, you can mute the demo to view captions.
- Get ready to interact! If you see a flashing purple dot, click it to move forward.
Using the Screen Recording Feature
- Begin by creating a new post, comment, or reply.
- Instructors: you may also use this feature in the Instructions tab while creating new Harmonize discussions.
- Click the Record Screen button located in the Harmonize Editor.
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A new Record Screen row will be added to your post.
- To remove this row from your post, click the Delete Recording Row icon located in the top right of the row.
- Click the Select Screen button to get started.
- A window will open asking which screen you would like to share. Depending on your browser, you may choose a single tab, entire widow, or entire screen. When you've chosen what you'd like to share, click Share.
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If this is your first time using the feature, your browser will prompt your for access to your microphone. Click Allow.
- NOTE: If you do not wish to record audio along with your screen, you may decline this access.
- By default, you will see a video recording of yourself in the lower right corner.
- [1] Presenter Size. Use this dropdown to change the size of the video recording
- [2] Presenter View. Use this dropdown to change where the video recording appears (or to hide it completely).
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Click the Start Recording button to begin recording. Note there is a 15 minute max to screen recordings.
- Click Pause to pause the recording.
- Click Record to continue recording where you left off.
- When you are finished recording click Stop. The recording will upload and begin processing.
- A final version of the screen recording, complete with auto-captioning if you chose to record audio, will be available as an attachment to the post. You may simply play it back or click the Comment/Annotate button to leave more in-depth feedback. See this article for more information: Respond within Video.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q. The Harmonize recorder is not recording my audio or video. How can I fix this?
- It is likely that your browser has not been granted the proper access to your microphone and/or camera. See Troubleshooting Recording Problems.
Q. I am a Moodle user and I'm having trouble accessing the screen recording feature. Can you help?
- It's likely that Moodle is preventing screen recording due to Harmonize being loaded into an iframe. We won't bore you with all the technical details, but opening Harmonize in a new tab should allow you to get around this LMS limitation.
Q. Is the screen recording feature available on mobile devices?
- Not at this time. To use the screen recording feature, please access your Harmonize discussion from a desktop or laptop.
Q. What happens when I hit the time limit?
- When you hit the time limit, Harmonize will act as though you have hit the "Stop" button. Recording will cease, and we will process the recording so you can review it.