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Productivity Tools

This guide compiled some of the tools you would be using during your course of study here in SIT, with additional free tools to supplement you for effective online learning.

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Microsoft Powerpoint

Microsoft Powerpoint Screen Recording with Narration

Narrations and timings can enhance a web-based or self-running slide show. If you have a sound card, microphone, and speakers, and (optionally) a webcam, you can record your PowerPoint presentation and capture narrations, slide timings, and ink gestures.

 

Loom

Loom

You can use Loom to record the content on your computer screen, and you can also incorporate footage of yourself narrating or lecturing along with the content. With Loom you can record your camera, microphone, and desktop simultaneously and instantly share your video.

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Screencastify

Screencastify

Screencastify is screen recording application that works via Google Chrome

You can use it to capture your webcam, entire screen or tab only, as well as narrate to your microphone. 

It also presents you with annotation tools that help keep your viewers focus on what’s critical. Click highlighting, drawing pen tool, and mouse spotlight are all included.

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Screencast-O-Matic

Screencast-O-Matic

Screencast-O-Matic offers a good number of features ranging from screen recording, video editing, video hosting and sharing.

The free version is limited to make 15-minute recordings with watermark added. You are allowed to trim your recording, add closed captions, and publish videos to YouTube or share to social media platforms. 

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AceThinker

AceThinker Screen Grabber Pro

With this AceThinker Screen Grabber tool, you can select exactly what you want to record; this can be your entire screen of just a section of it. You can fully configure the audio input as well.

While recording, add annotations, shapes, lines, and highlights to enhance your recording.