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Is there a way to self record your screen using Microsoft Streams or Teams?
Our office computers are PC so we don't have the handy free and easy to use features to record how-to videos on our screen or edit them in a free easy to use editing software. Training and Development is looking for a tool for employees to use to de-centralize video tutorials of how to do their job within a framework and guide they are creating. Is there a technology we can use or recommend within Office 365? We used to be able to have employees create Skype for Business meetings with themselves and record them, they could then use the screen share option and create these quick easy self tutorial videos. Looking for a new solution!
- Here is step by step for OBS and or built in game bar (only works with active window thou) https://www.google.com/amp/s/helpdeskgeek.com/windows-10/how-to-record-your-screen-on-windows-10/amp/
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Hi stephanieserblowski, yesterday it was announced that you can now record your screen by using Stream. I think this should be available very soon. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-stream-blog/now-available-screen-recording-for-training-videos-and/ba-p/1362099
I haven't read all the answers, so problably I'm repeating some 😉
I gave already a lot of webinars on how making movies with just the tools you find in W10 and 365:
- use the camera-option to record yourself
- use the record function in powerpoint
- use Teams to record a meeting
- use the video-editor to edit your recorded movies
stephanieserblowski Hey there while trying to find a similar solution myself, I found that in the desktop application you can go to Calendar, if you select Meet Now you can join the meeting by yourself, invite others if you want, and record. After recording if finished/meeting ended, it will automatically upload it into MS Stream where you can trim, edit, add captions, share, and download videos.
I explored several options mentioned here, but I don't have the licensing for many of them so I will be using this option.
Wanted to give back to a helpful thread.
Thanks!
- Winner, winner, chicken dinner!
ellenniles Thank you! This is the best option I have found since I cannot create a Chat with only myself. 🙂
Thank you ellenniles. This is exactly what I hoping I could do so thanks for posting this!
Hoping this isn't counterproductive, we do this in Teams with a "dummy" student account that you log in to using an incognito/inprivate window in your browser so that you have someone to "present" to. Create a meeting, invite the "dummy" switch to clean browser window, login (as dummy) and join team, back to "you" present and record, then meeting is saved to Stream on completion. You may need to talk to your Admin staff to get an account you can use, we just provision it and deprovision it as necessary. Though I also recommend the PowerPoint (old Office Mix) solution.
HTH!
-SCM
stephanieserblowskiI am surprised that no one else has mentioned this but we use the Recording feature of PowerPoint to produce many of our videos (previously known as Office Mix).
No, it is not a full-blown video editing tool but it provides the ability to mix screen recordings, audio, video etc. synchronized with PowerPoint content (you can highlight areas of your video with ppt's text-boxes, as an example).
Also from a maintenance point-of-view, you can split your recording over a number of slides so that when content has to be changed, you do not have to reshoot the whole sequence
The video can then be published directly to Stream.... all from within a tool that most of us are using already.
Don't know if Microsoft is moving away from this by adding recording/editing features to Stream though??
Colin_83 - Microsoft isn't moving away from anything, just adding more tools to your toolkit for screen recording.
For PowerPoint Recording and publishing to Stream, Mike Tholfsen's Twitter post at https://twitter.com/mtholfsen/status/1239226905137569792?s=21 is a fast introduction. For a full how-to training, see this Microsoft course: https://education.microsoft.com/en-us/course/8ebc6daf/overview.
I second this. Most of my coworkers do not have access to Camtasia or the Adobe suite so I recommend PowerPoint as it's familiar and gets the job done. Colin_83
Colin_83 thanks so much! Your tip regarding maintenance is especially helpful as that's important with our training videos. We are constantly changing and updating content!
- As much as I love Teams for recording since it's fairly simple, you do have free options that work amazing as well such as OBS (Open Broad Cast Software) https://obsproject.com/ . It's made for streaming but can easily be used to record as well and It's pretty straight forward to just setup a screen input, and you click Start recording and you can record your screen. I prefer this method because you get local files to use and edit, then you can upload to Stream for distribution but you do have multiple options here!
ChrisWebbTech this looks really interesting! I have a Mac at home so I wonder if this would do similar features that I have on my mac with the basic screen recording and imovie basic edit options. Or perhaps a few more! I'll check this out as perhaps something like this could be used across the company. Thanks!
- FYI on Mac. I think it still works.
To record a video on your Mac:
Open QuickTime.
Tap “File” at the top of the display.
Choose “New Screen recording”
Hit record.
You can record the whole screen, or click and drag your mouse cursor to record just a specific part.
- Hi stephanieserblowski
Teams and Stream can help you do most of this.
1.) Set up a meeting in Teams
2.) Join the team, share the screen and record
3.) The video is recorded into Stream
4.) Use the guide below to share with users/team
https://microsoft365pro.co.uk/2019/07/13/teams-real-simple-with-pictures-setting-up-a-video-channel-for-the-team/
You can edit the length of the video's in Stream, and add Forms to them, but the editing features are not like a mature video editor like Camtasia. Stream is developing more editing capabilities and these are shown on the Microsoft 365 roadmap as coming out later this year
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?featureid=25687
However, whether that is things like merging video, seperating layers, dubs etc remains to be seen.
However, Teams and Stream more than matches what you did previously in Skype for Business
Hope that answers your question!
Best, Chris- Thank you for providing this answer! I tested in my O365 Teams Desktop client (since O365 Teams Web Version did not work) and was very pleased when I saw the export in OneDrive. I am unsure where Stream is located, but I was able to find "Video Editor" on my Windows 10 machine and am able to make basic edits that I need to make.
Hi,
I am new to teams, so I apologize if my question seems trivial. In step 2, how do i "join the team"? I don't think I am on or have any teams. ChrisHoardMVP
CarlitaLopez I believe step 2 noted above is referring to https://support.office.com/en-us/article/join-a-meeting-in-teams-1613bb53-f3fa-431e-85a9-d6a91e3468c9, which you join through the Meeting link (shared by the meeting organizer, commonly embedded in the calendar invite if it is a scheduled meeting). https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Record-a-meeting-in-Teams-34dfbe7f-b07d-4a27-b4c6-de62f1348c24 and the recording is uploaded to Stream.
Joining Teams sites is different from joining Teams Meetings, and how to access can vary depending on how Teams sites (or O365 groups) have been setup within your org. Public Teams sites are usually searchable, so users can go through the steps to https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/find-and-join-a-team-9f284981-39a1-486d-b43d-ab2dcc4c1e0f?ui=en-us&rs=en-us&ad=us; users can join a public Team without an owner granting them access. Private Teams sites are restricted to specific group of users, so typically either an owner of the Teams site manages the access, adding/removing members and promoting members to owners, or a user can request access to the Team after finding it from search or with a link to the general channel of the Team site.
ChrisHoardMVP thanks, I have created videos and channels in steams by creating a Teams meeting and recording it. The trouble I run into is I can't seem to figure out how to record if the employee is not in a meeting with someone else, what if they are wanting to record a how-to tutorial sharing their screen alone? They were able to do this in Skype for Business but can't figure it out with the new Teams set up. It seems we can only record if a meeting is booked with someone else.
That's really exciting that it's on the roadmap to bring some video editing features into Microsoft steams, the types of features we are looking for are simple really easy to use ones. Thanks so much for sharing!
- If you’re wondering how to record without anyone else in the meeting, simply go to your calendar in Teams and click Meet Now. Once the meeting has started, record the meeting. Once complete, end recording and it will be published to Stream.
