Global Utilities

La Trobe University
Lectopia

Managing recordings

Recording status

In a recording schedule for automatically captured lectures, a recording's status will be scheduled until the lecture occurs, after wich time it becomes 'available'. Prior to the lecture occuring, you may choose to change a recording's status to either 'skipped' or 'cancelled' - set it to skipped if the lecture is still taking place but you do not want to record it for any reason; set it to cancelled if the lecture itself is not going ahead.

Access and edit the subject’s recording status using the recording schedule in the Lectopia staff tool.  To skip or cancel a recording you must set the recording status on the relevant recording details page and then select the ‘update’ button to make the amendment.

The status menu of the recording details, listed in the Lectopia staff tool for scheduled recordings.

Changes made in the staff tool schedule are effective immediately. More information on the recording status can be found in the Lectopia Staff Tool recording schedule page.

Additional lecture details

Information can be presented to students alongside your recordings made available in the LMS.  This information can be added by clicking on a recording in the the recordings list and entering details for Speaker(s), Topic, Related URL and Lecture Outline.

The Additional Lecture Details entry fields available on the recording details page in the Lectopia staff tool.

Related files

PowerPoint presentations and other documents can be uploaded for display alongside your recordings.  To do this, click on a recordings in the recordings list and click the 'Upload a related file' link located towards the bottom of the recording details section.

The related links field and link available on the recording details page in the Lectopia staff tool.

This will open another web browser window.  Follow the on-screen instructions to upload the file.

The web browser window that opens when the 'Upload a related file (e.g. PowerPoint) for this recording' is selected.

This browser can also be opened by clicking on the links in the Media column of the scheduled recordings list pictured below:

A scheduled recordings list

Deleting unwanted recordings

As you are unable to to delete/remove an unwanted recording yourself, an online request must be made via MyICT on La Trobe's Intranet.