Introduction
AuthorPoint is software that helps turn your live lectures into online video lectures. The software simulates a PowerPoint slideshow. During your slideshow, you may give your lecture and AuthorPoint records slide timings, notes, video or audio, annotations, and speaker notes. The audio or video can come from microphones, video cameras, webcams, headphone sets and more. After you’re finished, AuthorPoint converts all that information into a Flash file, making it viewable to the world wide web and compatible with mostly all browsers independent of operating system. This file can also record detailed information relevant to the presentation, such as author’s name, email, picture, logo, and presentation description. Controls also let you change the color of the presentation interface itself. If you have any questions on this, please let us know at fctl@mail.ucf.edu.
A more detailed version with screenshots is available as a pdf document here.
Please click on the following sections in the tutorial:
- Suggested Uses and Pedgagogies: Recommends uses, issues, and ideas; Details what equipment, hardware, and software is needed on the computer you will be recording your lecture on.
- Getting Started: Explains each step in installing AuthorPoint and other equipment. You may not need this step if AuthorPoint is already installed & functioning correctly.
- Recording a Presentation: Steps through how to prepare the computer to capture the lecture, to record the presentation.
- Export AuthorPoint to Flash: Details how to turn your recorded presentation to an online-ready format.
- Upload the Presentation: Shows how to upload your Flash presentation to either Webcourses or Pegasus.
