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TechSmith Relay is Here!
Posted September 11, 2019
By Jennifer Albat
The offices of Educational Outreach, Accessible Campus Community & Equitable Student Support (ACCESS), and Information Technology Services are collaborating to bring you a new audio/video hosting platform called TechSmith Relay.
TechSmith Relay will serve as the primary platform for storing media content across campus, giving faculty, students, and staff the ability to create, upload, and share videos from one location. In addition to its storing and sharing capabilities, TechSmith Relay allows users to do basic video editing, integrate quizzing and other video interactivity, and bring in external videos for enhancements. TechSmith Relay also has the capability to add automatic closed captioning, helping to meet University accessibility goals and achieve ADA compliance.
One of the greatest features for faculty and staff includes integration with Blackboard that also includes quizzing within the video content which can optionally report back to the grade center. This interactive quizzing will ideally help increase student engagement within flipped, blended, or online courses. Analytics allow users to see how much time is spent on the videos as well as the quiz results.
TechSmith Relay also has a simple video creation tool within the platform, or within the Fuse mobile app. Users can still choose to use Zoom as their primary choice for making videos as most video formats and videos from YouTube can be uploaded into TechSmith Relay.
Access Relay at siue.techsmithrelay.com. You can find log in instructions and additional articles in the ITS Knowledge Base (keyword: Relay). When working with videos, be sure to follow this workflow for best results.
Faculty and staff can Sign up for a 1-hour training session today. After attending training, register for a 2-hour working session to move your videos to Relay. Members of the ITS – Instructional Design & Learning Technologies Team will be on hand to assist.
