Course Capture

Overview

About Course Capture

Berkeley's Course Capture service offers instructors lecture recording services for their courses and is available in all General Assignment classrooms. Integrated with bCourses, recorded courses are intended to enhance the learning experience by providing a review tool for students.

Instructors have the ability to change the way students engage with their classes by allowing for their lectures to be published online for access outside of the classroom. Secondary sections, such as discussion and labs, are treated separately as from the primary discussion. GSIs, often listed as the instructor of secondary sections, will have the same recording and sharing options as instructors.
See Course Capture Explained for more details.

Instructors Getting Started

Instructors are able to opt in starting at least two weeks before instructions: How to opt into Course Capture

Instructors will need to opt into Course Capture in order to for their courses to be recorded. For multiple instructor courses, each instructor must individually opt in before recordings will be scheduled. All official instructors meeting in a Course Capture eligible room will receive an announcement email to opt in and to adjust their Course Capture settings at least two weeks prior to instruction start. Please review the following steps below if you want to use Course Capture.

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What to do prior to semester start

Work with your departmental scheduler to make sure your course is scheduled in a classroom that has the Course Capture capabilities that you need. Here's a guide for Department Schedulers
An announcement email is sent at least 2 weeks prior to the semester. At this time, you can log into Course Capture, opt in and adjust your Course Capture settings.
- Come to agreement with any co-instructors about these settings
- Home Page explained
- Course Page Explained
If desired, schedule a classroom consultation to learn more about the classroom you are teaching in.
Review What to do in the classroom and how to prevent recording issues
If you’re planning to share recordings, review How to share Course Capture recordings

Get Help for General Access Classrooms

For in-class support: If you need immediate assistance with technology or require additional batteries, contact the classroom helpdesk at 510-643-8637 or use the chat feature at classrooms.berkeley.edu.
For post-class issues: please email coursecapture@berkeley.edu if it is a recording issue or email classroomav@berkeley.edu if you know the issue is with the classroom AV equipment.

Get Help for Departmental Classrooms

Please note that departmental classrooms (listed) may have limited audio or video controls. Please email/call the department contacts for classroom help or email coursecapture@berkeley for any Course Capture related issue or questions.

Jacobs 310: Please email esg@eecs.berkeley.edu or call 510-642-7777
Davis 406, Davis 502, Davis 544, or O'Brien 212: Please email computing@ce.berkeley.edu
McCone 325, 365: Please email eps-tech-help@berkeley.edu
Haas F295: Please call 510-643-4217
Campbell 131: Please email tech-help@astro.berkeley.edu

Students Getting Started

It is up to the instructor whether or not to share Course Capture recordings with their students. Recordings are not shared with students until instructors take further steps to share the recordings either manually or automatically.

Access to current Course Capture recordings are limited to students enrolled in enabled courses. Most often, instructors will share Course Capture recordings by publishing them into the Media Gallery tab, located in the left hand navigation of your bCourses' course site. Your instructor may tell you that they will share in a different way. If you're not familiar with playing Kaltura videos, see "How do I watch Kaltura videos within bCourses?"

Course Capture Accessibility

RTL Commons and UC Berkeley strive to provide accessible services and web-based tools. We partner with campus accessibility teams to review both internally developed and purchased solutions.

Course Capture utilizes Kaltura. Current information regarding the accessibility of Kaltura be found on the Kaltura's service page.

Additional accessibility information can be found on our bCourses accessibility page.

Log in to Course Capture

Manage your Course Capture settings
This application does not host recordings. Find your recordings in bCourses

Course Capture Resources

Get Help

Services + Programs

Service at a Glance


Category	Details
System Availability	Fall, Spring, and Summer semesters
Services and Offerings	Camera without operator + Projection + Audio Recording Camera with operator + Projection + Audio Recording (see rates below) Recordings are accessible to students via bCourses
Eligibility	Academic Courses officially listed in the Student Information System (SIS) Instructors can schedule their course recordings. Students has access to Course Capture recordings as shared by their instructors.
Data Protection Level	P3 - This platform stores or processes FERPA-Protected Student Records.
Service Level	Standard - You have open access to use the service or system.
Service Owner	Willa Chan (coursecapture@berkeley.edu)
Rates	Ongoing operations support is free of charge. Camera with operator is available for a to $2600 per course in Pimentel and Wheeler Auditorium. (Not available in other classrooms)

* Except during scheduled maintenance.