On a Mac, click on the Apple (top left hand corner of your screen) > click system preferences > displays, change resolution. To change screen resolution (if you are using powerpoint): For a PC, right click on your desktop and click Properties > settings (windows XP) or screen resolution (windows 7) and change the screen resolution to 800 x 600. To do this, you can either change your screen resolution (for example if you are using powerpoint), or make sure that you capture a window on your computer that is small enough (if you are using softwar/the web). It is important that your video can be viewed on the screen of any computer available to your fellow students, therefore in order that noone is put at a disadvantage when viewing the videos, you need to make sure it will fit on the lowest resoultion screen (800×600) without scrolling around your video. You are now almost ready to record your screencapture. If you hover over it you will get 3 options: capture, history, more. If at anypoint you close Jing and want to come back to it again, you will find it in your programmes under TechSmith.Whilst Jing is running you will see the ‘Jing sun’ at the top of your screen. Once you have created your account, Jing should automatically run. If at anypoint you close Jing and want to come back to it again, you will find it in your programmes under TechSmith. Once you have Jing installed, sign up for an account (this is a account, it is free and will give you space to share your videos). If you do not have a microphone, one is available to hire for 24 hours only from the eLearning team (using the eLearning enquiries link in the left hand menu of the Blackboard course), you will need to book this early as other people may also be looking to use it.ĭownload the jing software from here (the software is avaialble for PC or Mac) and install it. Ideally you will use a personal computer. If you will need to use a microphone to provide the voice over, you will not be able to use a University cluster PC. Save your video to your computer and upload a copy to your Jing account.This can include a voice over if you need one

Create a screencast account (if you dont already have one).

Download and install Jing onto your own computer.

The software is free to download and allows you to create 5 minute screen recordings with or without audio and then enables you to save it to your own computer or upload it to you personal free account. Jing is a piece of software that can be used to create a video of what you see and do on your computer screen.

Jing recording