You will be recording a video presentation for your oral defense. It is important to test your ability to record and upload videos using Panopto early in the week, so this discussion will be a Panopto test.

For this week’s assignment, you will be recording a video presentation for your oral defense. It is important to test your ability to record and upload videos using Panopto early in the week, so this discussion will be a Panopto test.

Detailed directions for using Panopto can be found below or in the left menu bar item, Getting Started with Panopto.

Make a 15–30 second test recording of yourself (using a webcam) and your screen (it can be anything on your screen) using Panopto. State your name and your research topic during the test. Post the link to the test recording in the discussion.

In addition to posting your test video, post written responses for the following questions

Provide any tips or helpful pointers you learned when making your test recording.

Review the guidance in the Course Activities regarding how to set up your presentation. Based on the suggestions provided, how many slides do you estimate your presentation will be?

What resource(s) from the Course Activities did you consider to be most useful regarding presentation formatting or delivery? Explain why you selected this resource.

What steps do you plan to take to transition your paper to a presentation?

What questions do you have about creating or delivering your presentation?

Videos can be recorded using any software or tool, but all videos are required to be uploaded to My Panopto Videos for assignment submission.

You can also use the Panopto Desktop Recording tool to create your video.