1. Jacob Cratsa Advisor: Dr. C. David Shaffer Westminster College
Class Capture
Jacob Cratsa
Advisor: Dr. C. David Shaffer
Westminster College

2. What is Class Capture?
Class Capture is a type of technology often referred to as Lecture Capture
Lecture Capture describes the various technologies and methods used to record lectures and enhance the classroom experience through the aid of multimedia
Class Capture is an enhanced way to take notes

3. Problems with Taking Notes
Getting everything down in time
Recognizing all the important information the first time
Remembering why you wrote that particular note down
Perhaps you simply have a bad writing hand

4. Problems with Recording a lecture
Time spent listening to entire recording
Finding a key point
Relating to written notes
Expensive solutions

5. Existing Technologies
Smart Pens
PerfectNotes
Task specific Programs like Dragon Speech

6. My solution
A web based program/system for every student in a class to take notes
Inspired by Universal Design Concepts
All notes taken are linked to a recording of the class which can be navigated using typed notes taken at the time of the recording

7. Notes + Recording The primary function of Class Capture
An audio recording is combined with typed notes so that the notes become clickable bookmarks for the recording

8. Web-based design
Allows Class Capture to be installed on only one machine but used by the entire classroom
Students can take their notes and play them back from their own computers
Gives instructor greater control over lecture

9. Site Design
Students and Instructors both login to the site with Instructors managing the accounts
For the Instructor there is:
a class management page
notes playback page
For the students there is:
an account page
note taking page

10. Log in screen

11. Student’s account

12. Taking notes

13. Instructor’s account

14. Notes playback

15. How it works
Uses html, javascript, server side php and the HTML5 audio player
A bookmark is created whenever you stop typing
A value of the local time, relative to the start of the recording, is saved to the server for each bookmark

16. Media Players HTML5 used to play back the recording
VLC used to make the recordings during testing
Cross-platform compatibility requires changeable apps

17. Starting a class Session
The Instructor is provided a user manual on proper use of Class Capture
Instructor’s web-based interface does not start the recording
Instructors have the freedom to use what they wish to make the recording but must save as .wav with _”month”-”day”-”year” as the title
Talk about starting/stoping lecture when I bring up the manual

18. Advantages For Students who miss a class
Enhanced ability to review the lecture
Improved course accessibility with future development

19. Universal Design
An accessibility design principal where the product can be used effectively by anyone
Class Capture was originally meant to implement this idea
Future development with Universal Design would allow for more advanced uses of Class Capture

20. Future Possibilities
This project could be expanded on much more in the future.
Adding a speech to text converter would allow individuals with hearing loss to use the application
Instructors could even use this to closely monitor the note taking ability of their students
Include video