Create Webcam and Screen Recording Video with Loom

Exam season

Welcome to the exam season. We hope that the life is getting easier until it hits the point that we have to start marking the exams. If you are interested in preparing your units for the next semester, this month's video creation tool Loom can be very helpful.

If you have any questions or you are interested in any particular tools, just send us an email or reply to the posts. We will be very happy to help you to investigate that if possible.

Loom

Loom is a cloud-based screen recorder and video creator. Videos are widely used as teaching resources, and recently more and more teachers are trying to give video feedback to the student assignments. Screenshot of the student assignments in the video has been proven quite useful when providing feedback comment to the student submissions.

Now this entire process is made easier with Loom. The platform brings a great simplicity to the screen recording space, by allowing you to instantly record, edit and share your video.

It is integrated with Gmail. It will be so easy for you to create a multimedia email as well.

What is good?

What is so good about it? Let's count:

1. Well designed and it is SO EASY to use.
2. High-quality video
3. Integrated with Google Chrome and it supports both PCs and Apple computers.
4. Linked with your Google account. You can bring it to any new computer.
5. Screen recording function
6. Unlimited online storage for the premium version
7. Download as MP4 files
8. Free for the basic version

What is not so good?

The basic free version can only create videos up to 10 minutes. However, we don't think that it is a big problem as students won't watch long videos anyway.

It needs Google Chrome. Therefore if you are not a Chrome person, you will have to use it to enable Loom.

For the basic free version, you can only access the videos online for 7 days. You might need to download the files before that or you can refer the tool to two others to get the unlimited access.

What's in it for us?

The easiest tool so far to make webcam or screen capture videos for teaching resource or video feedback. We have run two workshops for using this tool in Monash Malaysia and the academics there absolutely loved it.

We have posted a user guide for using Loom. Take a look.

If you would like to learn to how to use the tool, please watch the following video instruction: