DukeCapture
What is DukeCapture?
DukeCapture provides automated lecture and event recording at over 60 locations across the Duke campus. The service allows for automatic publication to many different services including streaming and podcasting servers such as DukeStream, Blackboard, and iTunes U.
Events can be captured in audio, video and VGA formats – or a combination of all three – and require no special technical expertise on the part of faculty or others being recorded.
Benefits of Lectopia include the following:
Low cost for schools and departments – A typical Lectopia installation costs approximately $5,900 per room, including a comprehensive three year support package (this figure excludes any needed A/V integration or upgrade costs). Please note that the institutional costs of Lectopia are greater, but that licensing arrangements, central servers and supporting applications, support fees, delivery servers, and other infrastructure costs are centrally supported by OIT.
Highly automated – The Lectopia server can be scheduled for a single lecture or for an entire semester at a time, eliminating the need for a technician to be present for classes.
Versatile – Lectopia can capture audio, video, and VGA in multiple combinations (VGA encompasses anything displayed on a presenter's computer screen, from basic PowerPoint slides to video and complex animations). Once captured, content is quickly processed into a much wider range of platforms, formats, sizes, and bandwidths than is available via any other lecture capture tool.
Manageable – Lectopia allows administrators to carefully control how the media is captured and delivered. A wide variety of reports can be generated to help administrators understand how content is being used.
Integration friendly – Lectopia has the ability to provide links which can be seen in BlackBoard and to upload content automatically to iTunes U.
DukeCapture resources
- For a list of rooms enabled for Lectopia capture, click here.
- To see examples of events captured with Lectopia, visit our Lectopia sample links page.
- To see samples maintained by the University of Western Australia, the developers of Lectopia, visit: http://lectopia.uwa.edu.au/.
- How can a faculty member use Lectopia?
- What options does Lectopia offer related to Podcasting and iTunes U?
- Information for Lectopia Site Administrators
- DukeCapture preferred peripherals
- Tips for increasing lecture capture production values
Need help?
- If you would like more information about using Lectopia at Duke, contact Todd Stabley at (919) 323-0858 or todd.stabley@duke.edu.
- If you are a student or faculty member with a Lectopia-related problem, contact the OIT Service Desk at (919) 684-2200.
- If you are a site administrator and you need to report a problem or request a new Lectopia unit, initiate a help request with the OIT Service Desk at (919) 684-2200.