Advantages of web lectures

1. Students can watch the recorded material multiple times for better understanding of complex subjects.
2. The course material is available to students who miss lectures due to sickness or other circumstances.
3. You can use recordings of your lectures again, for example when offering online classes or applying the Flipping the Classroom principle.

If you’d like to use the automated systems for recording and publishing web lectures, ask about the service offered by ECOLe.

How the web lecture service works

• A web lecture needs to be requested in advance.
• Web lectures can only be requested for certain locations.
• Remember that web lectures are mainly designed to transmit information, not to receive it.
• The speaker can’t see or hear the online participants, although they may ask questions via a moderator, who will convey them to the speaker.
• Web lectures are published online at weblectures.leidenuniv.nl and (on request) may be published automatically in your Brightspace course. You can also refer students to the videos with a direct link.

An example of a web lecture is given here.

Requesting a web lecture

Requests for web lectures are organised per semester. You will automatically receive an email asking you to submit your request, provided you teach in a room that’s suitable for web lectures.

After submitting your request, you will receive a confirmation with additional information. Depending on what you requested, the web lecture may be automatically published in your Brightspace course. It is also possible to receive individual links.

For ad hoc requests:

• Send an email to ecole@hum.leidenuniv.nl
• Include the following information:
  • Course code
  • Lecture timetable
  • Desired way to make the web lecture available:
    • Livestream only
    • Recording only
    • Both livestream and recording
  • Whether you want the recording to be automatically published in the Brightspace course.

Alternative: record a lecture or set up a livestream yourself

If a suitable location isn’t available or it’s too late to submit a request, you can use the following alternative procedure:

1. Arrange a camera
   1. If you give the lecture at your computer, you can probably use your own webcam to record it.
   2. If you give the lecture in a lecture room, you should loan one of the portable webcam sets for hybrid teaching from the Lipsius reception desk, so that you can position the camera in the right place and aren’t dependent on your laptop camera. If you’re giving a hybrid lecture, with students both online and on campus, see also the ‘hybrid lectures’ page.
   3. If you’d like to record a video at a time when you’re not actually giving a lecture, see the ‘producing videos and podcasts’ page.

2. Give the lecture in Zoom and record it if you want it to be available for later use.
3. Upload the video recording in the video portal (Kaltura My Media) and publish it on Brightspace.

Locations

In the Faculty of Humanities, web lectures via ECOLe are currently only possible in some of the lecture rooms, which are specially equipped for automated recording of presentations, lectures or talks.

Leiden

• Lipsius 0.03
• Lipsius 0.05
• Lipsius 0.11
• Lipsius 0.19
• Lipsius 0.28

The Hague

• Wijnhaven 201
• Wijnhaven 202
• Schouwburgstraat A.006
• Anna van Bueren A.221