4 Ways to Repurpose Lecture Recordings
August 2023
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3 min read
During my master’s, believe it or not, I didn’t own a single physical coursebook.
Thanks to COVID, most of my classes were online, and even if I missed any of the lectures, I could just watch the Zoom recordings in my university’s education portal.
But the portal had its shortcomings– there was no way I could skip to an exact clip where the professor talked about the assignment or the core subject matter, but to patiently watch the whole lecture, start to finish. 😥
In retrospect, if my university had used a tool like Reduct and its search feature, navigating the lectures would have been game-changing for students like me and everyone involved.
1. So what is Reduct’s "searchable repository" and how does it work?
Say you want to work with 10 lecture recordings in Reduct. After you upload them, you can use the ‘search in transcripts’ feature to find segments in the lecture/s that specifically talk about the topic you input in the search field.
This powerful search feature lets you navigate either within a single lecture or ALL of them. You can search for exact matches or use Reduct’s fuzzy search feature to find relevant information instantly.
Read more: How to Search for Spoken Words in Videos- 3 Fast & Easy Steps
Lecturers, TAs, and students can use course-related keywords to benefit from this feature in countless ways:
⏰ Save time by navigating to the exact lecture clip instead of cluelessly hovering over the play head to gather insights for assignments and note-taking.
📑 Review course materials before exams so you cover all relevant content.
📚 Sort and organize lectures by topic and relevance for easy access.
🤿 Dive deeper into areas of interest fostering self-directed learning.
2. Share your lectures with Reduct’s shared project feature
Teachers put a lot of effort into creating materials for lectures and recording them. For what it’s worth- they are only used as course material and are lying around idly.
You can repurpose your recorded lectures by sharing them in the public domain.
Invite your colleagues to view, comment and edit your content internally or share them publicly, the choice is yours.
With Reduct, you can easily share your lectures with your students or TAs by directly inputting their names or email IDs in the project-sharing feature and hitting the ‘invite’ button.
Sharing your lectures publicly allows you to reach a broader group of students, including those who do not have direct access to you or your classes.
This gives you and your recorded lecture the exposure it needs by connecting and engaging with students.
3. Make lectures more comprehensive and inclusive with Reduct’s auto-generated closed captions
As a non-native speaker, I consider myself pretty fluent in English. Nonetheless, I still enable YouTube’s closed captioning feature for some British shows to better comprehend their heavy accents.🤭
I can only imagine the struggles of international students in their first university lecture where the professor has a thick accent.
With Reduct, your lecture videos can have captions too– just like YouTube!😲
And to make it even better, you can edit the captions if and where necessary to offer clean-cut videos free from any filler words, irrelevant discussions, and unintelligible speech.
Read more: How to Edit Video Fast: 5 Tips to Speed Up Video Editing
You can skim through the transcripts at your own pace instead of sitting through the lecture recordings.
Including closed captions in your videos also guarantees that your lectures become available to a wider audience, including individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing.
4. Turn your hour-long lectures into snackable snippets/reels
Long lectures can be a lot of information to take at once.
Shorter lecture reels cater to students with short attention spans, reducing the chances of them getting overwhelmed or losing interest.
I personally retain information better from an engaging 5-minute reel than from a monotonous hour-long lecture.
Reduct helps you convert your long lecture recordings into snackable snippets/reels. These short reels condense the essential information, focusing on key concepts of the lecture and eliminating the less important parts.
To create a reel in Reduct, you can either select the entire recording option from the convert menu. This takes the entire video into Reduct’s Reel Builder.
Or you can highlight the most important sections of the lecture and select the add-to-reel option to compile them together.
With Reduct reels, students get a clear and concise overview of the topic, making it easier for them to grasp the main ideas quickly.
You can also upload short highlight reels on LinkedIn to ramp up your social media presence, connect and engage with your audience, and of course, get more eyeballs on your recorded lectures!
Try Reduct today to repurpose your own lecture videos and embrace the future of education delivery.
