Screencast-o-matic is a free screen recording software that allows users to create videos from their computer screen without needing to download or install anything. It provides controls to select the recording area, choose an audio source and adjust volume, and optionally include webcam footage. To record, users click the record button which will count down and then capture everything within the selected area until the stop button is pressed. Once finished recording, users can preview their video and then choose to publish it to sites like YouTube.

1. Technologies in Evaluation
By Harry Gunner

2. Screen – O – Matic
• Screencast-o-matic is a screen capture software that can be used to
create videos from your screen (i.e. like we did for our blogging), and
it doesn’t require any downloading or installing. When you get onto
the web browser you simply click “Start Recording.”
• You should get a dotted box on your screen that you can adjust to fit
the area you want to record. Before you start recording, look to the
bottom of the box at the controls available to you. You will see a red
record button (don’t click it yet), and then a microphone button. If
you click this, you can choose your audio source. Next to the audio
button you will see a volume control button. Not all microphones
allow for volume control, but if yours does you can set that there.
Next to volume control, you will see some dimension presets. You
can either use these, or you can set your own by clicking and
dragging the small boxes around the area. Next to the dimensions,
you will see a webcam option. There you can choose to use webcam
(and which source), or to turn it off. The last button is an X. It closes
the program.

3. • When you are ready, click the record button to start your
video. Screencast-o-matic will count down from 3 and
then start recording. At the bottom of the screen, you will
see a few options while recording. You can pause, restart,
or stop (done). You also see the volume level and timer at
the bottom. Take note that the limit on a Screencast-o-
matic video is 15 minutes.
• When you are finished (click “done”), you will have a
preview window come up. Here you can watch the video
by clicking the play button in the bottom left corner of the
window.
• Then you have several options on the right side of the
screen. You can publish the video to several places i.e.
YouTube. After this you can completed creating and
uploading a video via screen-o-matic.