T he Android screen recorder adds to the company’s multi-device suite of video creation tools making it easy for teachers and students to create videos using Screencast-O-Matic on Windows, MacOS, ChromeOS, iOS and Android devices. Simply click download, and when the dialog indicates it’s ready to use, restart your Screencast-O-Matic app to move to the updated version.EdTechTeam partner Screencast-O-Matic recently released an intuitive Android screen recorder app. On the subsequent dialog box, you’ll see that it’s time to update the app:

To update the app:Ĭlick the ? icon in the upper right of your Screencast-O-Matic dashboard. However, if you stick with Screencast-O-Matic/ScreenPal, this is a good time to remember to regularly update your Screencast-O-Matic/ScreenPal app! This ensures that it will continue to run smoothly on your PC or Mac.

For many faculty who make few or no edits to their videos, it’s much faster than using a separate app to record and edit videos that are going in front of your students via D2L-Panopto, anyway. This might be a good time to experiment with Panopto’s onboard recorder, if you have not done so. So don’t be surprised, when next you update your app, that the name has changed. In the next several weeks, Screencast-O-Matic is changing its name to ScreenPal, although they indicate that this will have little effect on users.

It’s an easy-to-use video recorder and editor with a few more features than Panopto’s (also excellent) onboard video tools. Many faculty use Screencast-O-Matic, provided through our Canisius College license.

Screencastomatic video editor