Tools: Snagit

Snagit

What is Snagit?

Snagit is the "big brother/sister" to Jing. Jing is free, Snagit Academic is available at an affordable price.

• What can you do with Snagit? It helps you create images and videos that explain exactly what you mean and provide better feedback.
  • Quickly snag what’s on your screen, enhance it with effects, and then share your creations instantly.
  • Don't type lengthy instructions. Provide quick explanations with Snagit, and move on to your next task.

Why do instructors use Snagit?

• They use Snagit to create a screen shot or a picture of what is displayed on your computer screen:
  • Show a picture of a diagram or process; provide a roadmap to an important part of your online course materials.
• They use Snagit to create a screencast or a video recording of actions that occur on your computer screen:
  • Instructors introduce themselves to their students or provide tours of the online parts of your class.
  • With Snagit, instructors can easily record and share video lessons with students: Here's what one instructor did.

How is Snagit different from Jing

• With Jing, videos can only be 5 minutes long, with Snagit, you can make them as long as you like.
  • If you upload your video to YouTube, you can upload your script to create close captions and provide a video transcript
  • You can now edit your video, to cut out parts you don't want to keep
• Snagit offers many more tools to mark up your screen shots:
  • Call out boxes, automatic numbering, blurring capabilities (to hide names), special characters.
  • You can resize, crop or cut-out parts of your screen shots.
• Here's the quick visual of How to move from Jing to Snagit

Getting Started

• Write a script for your video! Make sure you've created the script with Windows Notepad if you want to upload the script to YouTube.
• Check out the intro videos of "Getting Started with Snagit"
• Or check out the "Snagit: Intro to Video: video:

• Visit the Snagit web site to download the product at home; contact IT to download on your work computer. Or try it out in Tech Center 219.
  • The Snagit Learning Center has great tutorials and tips to help you get started using Snagit.
  • When you install Jing or Snagit, you create a screencast.com id, where you can store your video and share the link. You can also upload Snagit videos to YouTube.
  • Share a link to your script, too!

Tip: Before recording your video it’s a good idea to write a script. Save the script as a text file. You can use your script to add captions to your video, if you upload your video to YouTube.

• Hardware Needed for Screencasting:
  • Use a microphone, headset, or webcam for recording audio (headset is best)
  • Use your computer speakers or headset to listen to audio
  • Need suggestions? Check out How to Choose a Video Recording Headset

How do you add Snagit screenshots and screencasts to Sakai?

• Find out how to add a Snagit screen shot to Sakai
• Add a link to a Snagit video in Sakai
  • First, in Snagit, after creating your video, you have to click on the top menu, on Screencast.com, to save your video and generate your link to your video
• Display a Snagit video in Sakai
  • First, in Snagit, after creating your video, you have to click on the top menu, on YouTube, to save your video to YouTube

Intermediate How-to's for Videos

• Edit your Video: Cut Out Mistakes or Unwanted Parts of the video
• Share your Video: Share on YouTube, Screencast.com, Google Drive

Intermediate How-to's for Screen shots

• Basic Editing: Cut out parts of an image, trim an image, crop an image
• Maintain privacy in your image: Blur names/sensitive information

Examples of How Instructors use Snagit

• How to use Snagit for Feedback or Grading
• Use Snagit for Research (Documenting sources)