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Gear, Software, Software, Teaching, Tech, Training

Zoom Document Camera-to-Panopto Test Recording

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I set up my iPad on a stand, pointing straight down at my notepad, and connected it via its Lightning-to-USB cable to my iMac.

Then I opened my Zoom Personal Meeting Room and started recording. I wrote and narrated what I was writing, then ended the recording.

I waited for three hours before realizing I needed to actually close the meeting in Zoom. As soon as I did that, the recording immediately appeared in my Zoom Cloud (I did have to refresh the Zoom Cloud Recordings page).

Here is a link to that recording:

With the new Zoom recordings-to-Panopto integration, Panopto pulls over all Zoom cloud recordings automatically, into the My Folder > Meeting Recordings folder. Here is that recording, embedded right here in this WordPress page:

~ Well, looks like we can’t embed Panopto videos in WordPress. Dang. Ok, how about a simple URL:

A couple of things to note:

The captions are provided by Zoom, and not only seem to be a bit more accurate, but they also include the host’s name. Here is a comparison of Zoom’s captions versus Panopto’s:

Canvas, Software, Software, Teaching

Embedding Office 365 Documents into Web Pages… or Not. And, Ben Franklin.

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I’m having some kind of fun playing with the various features of Bellevue College’s new Microsoft Office 365. One of the coolest, most promising features is embedding Office documents into web pages. Over the Christmas break, Bruce Wolcott showed this to me– he had embedded a Word document in Canvas. It was super-cool!

So now I want to try it here in our Commons blogs. The Commons blogs are WordPress-powered, which is a different set of technologies than either Office 365 or Canvas, so it may not work right just yet. Nevertheless, here goes.

Here, I just paste the URL of a document in my OneDrive, and convert it to a hyperlink:

https://bellevuec-my.sharepoint.com/personal/krowley_bellevuecollege_edu/_layouts/15/guestaccess.aspx?guestaccesstoken=L9j3jlafHhbaIRWMIKTJFIjN2nFmEpLl9Ato4R5KTGI%3d&docid=0699e67f0e7764b1eb81e0880cbc76915

Well, that works as expected: that is, it opens a new tab in my browser, and inside that tab, opens Word Online, with the document (“Book Love”) open. However, I am currently logged into my OneDrive/Office 365 site. If I am NOT logged in, what happens?

Ah, very cool! It opens the document in Word Online, but with view only permissions. Perfect.Linked Office 365 document, with View permissions

 

Now, that’s pretty cool. But, what if I want to do what Bruce does in his Canvas Pages– embed? Let’s snag this file’s embed code from OneDrive, and paste that iframe code here:

This is an embedded Microsoft Office document, powered by Office Online.

What?? Nooo! How lame! WordPress totally ditched the iframe code, and replaced it with this:

HTML code of lame replacement message

Yep, after a cursory search of the WordPress.org support and forums, it appears that WordPress strips out iframe code for “security” reasons. Bummer. I want this all to come together. I want to be able to put my Office documents anywhere. I want to be able to collaborate with others on any site. I know computer security people hate users like me.

Which reminds me of an issue that the college is encountering on other levels right now, and a relevant quote from Ben Franklin:

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

Blessings,

K