Overview
ScreenPal is an application for macOS and Windows that records your screen, webcam, and/or microphone. You can record a PowerPoint, or demonstrate a tool directly from your computer. When you’re finished, save the recording to your desktop, then publish it on YouTube or on another video publishing site. In March 2023, Screencast-O-Matic rebranded to ScreenPal. Refer to ScreenPal’s Transition FAQ for more information.
These videos are your responsibility to maintain and manage. These videos can be set as a link within Canvas for student viewing either by individual videos or a catalog stream.
Usage Note
Be mindful about what you are recording
- Be careful not to record FERPA protected, or HIPAA/Protected Health Information (PHI) data. When the recording interface loads, there is a dashed box that indicates the recording area. This box can be adjusted so that just a portion of the screen is captured. If you do record something sensitive, use the ScreenPal editor’s Overlay Blur tool to obscure it in the recording.
Highlights
- Screen capture, webcam, and/or audio recording
- Resizable recording window to capture just part of your screen
- Powerful video editor
- Screenshot tool
Downloading and Installing ScreenPal
- Go to https://screenpal.com/neomed and log in with your NEOMED account. The ScreenPal - Northeast Ohio Medical University page appears.
- In the upper right, select your initials. In the menu that appears, confirm that it says "Team Member" under your name.
- If the menu says "Free User", visit https://screenpal.com/neomed again. After that, if the menu still says Free User, select Sign Out and return to step 1.
- On the ScreenPal - Northeast Ohio Medical University page, select the checkbox next to "I agree to the Terms of Service."
- Select Launch Recorder:
- At the bottom of the window, select Download app and follow the prompts.
- When the installation is complete, return to https://screenpal.com/neomed and select Launch Recorder.
Manually Allowing Camera & Microphone Access (optional)
While ScreenPal will walk you through the steps to allow camera and microphone access when you launch the application, you can also do this manually if needed.
macOS Sonoma & Later
Due to security/privacy restrictions in macOS, you may need to specifically allow ScreenPal to use your devices. The following steps outline how to manually allow ScreenPal access to your camera and microphone using macOS Sonoma and later versions:
- Go to System Settings -> Privacy & Security -> Screen & System Audio Recording.
- Click the button next to ScreenPal to allow screen and system audio recording.
Windows
Recording audio in Windows can be done by enabling that setting in the ScreenPal recorder.
Recording & Editing
You are now ready to get started recording.
Considerations for File Storage
Any kind of video/audio file is likely to have a large file size. With ScreenPal, you not only have the .mp4 file that you produce to share with others; you also have the original project file with all the video and audio components maintained in an editable format. If you’re doing a lot of screen recording, you may find that the files are taking up too much space on your computer’s hard drive. The solution is to take advantage of EchoVideo as well as our cloud storage and put them on your NEOMED OneDrive account. You can keep all mp4s and project files online and then bring the current one you are working on to your computer. We recommend exporting compressed files to OneDrive cloud storage (or an external hard drive).