1 - How to edit your BigBlueButton recordings and make them available for your students to access

Guide of 'How to edit your BigBlueButton recordings and make them available for your students to access'

 

Overview:

This guide will show you how to download the BigBlueButton recordings, edit the content quickly and then upload it to Learning Mall Core through Mediasite for students to access. 

 

What to know:

The BigBluebutton recording downloading feature is new, and the old recordings before the December 7th, 2020 can't be downloaded.

 

Table of Contents

 

Step 1: Open the BigBlueButton 

Please open the BigBlueButton activity. You will see all the recordings listed as below:

For the new recording after December 7th, 2020, there will be two buttons on the left "Capture" and "Presentation":

Step 2:  Download the recording
  1. Click the "Capture" button to open the video.
  2. Right click on the popped window (on the video), and click "Save Video As" in the menu list to save the video to your own computer. 

  3. Create a new name for the video and choose the place where you want to save the video. Then click "save" to start downloading:

 

Step 3:  Edit the recordings

With the downloaded M4V video recording, you can quickly do some basic edits (e.g. split clips and delete the unnecessary part) to the content before you make it available for your students to access.

Following are the user guides about how to quickly edit your recordings with free software for different devices:

  1. For Apple devices, quick start user guide of iMovie: https://blog.storyblocks.com/video-tutorials/getting-started-imovie/ 
  2. For Windows devices, quick start user guide of Microsoft :https://www.howtogeek.com/355524/how-to-use-windows-10s-hidden-video-editor/ 
  3. For Any devices, quick start user guide of OpenShot Video Editor: https://www.openshot.org/user-guide/ 
Step 4:  Upload the edited recording for students to access

Congratulations! Now you have the edited video recordings. The final step is the upload the video to Learning Mall Core through Media Asset Management system (MAM) for your students to access.

You can refer to these two guides for instructions：

 


Article Number: 211
Author: Wed, Dec 30, 2020
Last Updated: Thu, Nov 12, 2026
Author: Knowledge Base Administrator

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