Loom
Loom is a free tool you can use to do screen capture and lecture recording, including voice recording using your laptop’s microphone, and optional webcam video off to the side. You can send Loom videos via email or embed them directly in your Moodle course page. https://ccadit.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ID/pages/1658847233
You get access to Loom Education license for free as a student or teacher. Just click here to to get the Education features, including recording videos up to 45 minutes in length! Upgrading your account will take up to 7 days.
Loom is best for short videos of around 10-15 minutes. For longer videos or recording lectures, try one of our other tools like Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, or YouTube which you can access using your CCAD Google account.
Faculty, you can install Loom on your CCAD-issued laptop:
Mac - Open the Self Service app in your Applications folder, log in using your CCAD username and password, find Loom and click install.
Windows - (coming soon) Press the Windows key and search for and open Software Center. Click on Loom and then Install.
Video tutorial
How to get started
1. Go to loom.com and click Sign in at the top right
2. Click Sign in with Google and use your CCAD email
3. Once you are logged into Loom, click New Video at the top right
4. You will see a pop-up window telling you that you need to install the Google Chrome extension.
Click Visit Chrome Store.
5. On the Chrome Web Store, click Add to Chrome. Then if prompted again click Add extension.
6. Once the installation is complete you will see the Loom logo up in the Chrome browser extension bar
7. Go back to your loom.com tab and refresh the page. Then, click New Video again.
8. If you see a screen like the one below, you’re all set up to start recording videos. Look for the control box at the top right, where you can choose what window will be recorded for your screen capture and see whether your microphone is working. In the lower left, you should see a preview of your webcam’s video.
The next section will go into more depth about recording Loom videos.
Recording Loom videos
1. Open a Google Chrome window and go to the website you want to record. If you are recording something outside a web browser, like a PowerPoint presentation or another application on your computer, just open Chrome and proceed to the next step.
2. Click the Loom icon in your browser extension bar. If you don’t see the logo there, click the puzzle piece button to show a drop down of all your extensions and click Loom for Chrome.
3. The Loom control box will appear at the top right, and the webcam video preview circle will appear at the bottom left. Make sure you see the Microphone audio is registering the incoming signal when you speak (the blue line should be moving), and that you can see yourself in the webcam video preview.
4. In the control box on the upper right, choose whether you are recording your screen and webcam, screen only, or webcam only. Then choose if you are recording the Full Desktop or just the Current Tab.
Note: If you are recording something on your computer outside Google Chrome, you will need to choose Full Desktop.
Once you’re ready, click the Play button next to the webcam preview to begin recording your screen. While recording, use the X button to discard the take, the Pause button to pause recording and create breaks if you need to set the next section up, and the Green Check button to finish the recording.
When recordings are finished, they will be saved to the My Videos section on loom.com.
Email a Loom video
Loom videos can be easily embedded and emailed in Gmail.
1. First, log in to loom.com and click the Link button in the bottom right corner of one of your videos. This will copy the URL to the video.
2. Go to mail.ccad.edu and log in using your CCAD email and password
3. Click Compose at the top left to start a new email.
4. Paste the video URL in the message. Gmail should embed the video right after pasting, if not press the Spacebar once after the URL.
Your video is now embedded in an email! Click Send to send it to your intended recipient.
Embed Loom videos on Moodle
Your video is recorded, you’ve emailed it to your students, how do you embed it on your Moodle page?
1. Go to loom.com and click on the video you want to embed on Moodle. Click the Share button (looks like an arrow pointing right) and then click Embed.
2. This will automatically copy the embed code that you can use to paste into Moodle.
3. Go to moodle.ccad.edu, log in and go to your class. Use the Gear at the top right to Turn editing on. Now, go to the week you want to embed the Miro board and click Edit, Edit week.
4. At the top of the Summary box, click Show/hide advanced buttons (looks like a downward arrow), then click the HTML source button
5. Paste the embed code in the Summary box where you want it to go and click Save changes
Your Loom video is now embedded on your Moodle course page! Students can view it directly from this page, or start the video and click the fullscreen button at the bottom right of the player to view it at full size.