UMass Lowell's Lecture Capture technology gives you the ability to record your classes and offer to your students an additional tool while taking classes.
Lecture capturing through Echo360 gives you the ability to record classes, special speakers, training processes and selectively send the captured sessions out to your students, either directly through a website or through Blackboard.
The Echo360 lecture capturing application is available in more than 95 classrooms campus wide. There is also a separate application available that allows you to record from a laptop or desktop machine anywhere.
Lecture Capture Request
PCAP (Personal Capture Software)
This free application allows you to make your own screencast recordings, recording your screen and your webcamera (if desired). You may record as much as you wish on to your computer (PC or Mac), do some simple editing and then upload the recording to our Echo360 platform. An Echo360 account is required to publish the recording (making it available to all). Recordings can be made without an internet connection. Contact Randy at 978-934-2175 or email randy_tyndall@uml.edu for more information and to get the latest version of PCAP.
Lecture Capture Policies
No class will be recorded without the expressed consent of the faculty member.
Lecture recordings will be restricted to UMass Lowell students via their UMass Lowell username/password. Other access controls are available on a per-course basis.
Viewers cannot download the captured classes. All content will be delivered using streaming technology, thus restricting the portability of the recordings. Faculty, however, can request that audio and/or video of the class be made available for downloading by students.
The Instructor retains Intellectual Property rights of the recorded material. Additional information regarding Intellectual Property can be found on the UMass Lowell guidelines.
Recordings can be edited to remove undesired material or conversations by either faculty or by an authorized operator of the lecture capture system.
Every effort is made to not capture student's likenesses, as the system is designed to capture the instructor and the front of the classroom, however, student's audio participation might be recorded.
Lecture Capture Retention Policies
Recorded lectures will be kept for one academic year. After this time, recordings will be placed in an archival area for one year, then automatically deleted. Recordings can be saved for a longer period of time if prior arrangements have been made.
Faculty who are using recorded lectures to supplement an online course must contact the Instructional Technology Services group and identify the course name and number to keep those recordings active, otherwise they are first archived then deleted after 2 years from the original recording date.