Desire2Learn Capture Portal
Desire2Learn Capture Portal is a power house for storing and viewing engaging and social rich media presentations. It is the place on the Web where your online participants watch live and on demand CaptureCast™ presentations and interact with other participants. It is also the tool for an administrator to schedule events, manage the media repository, do post-production and customize the look and feel of the site.
See CaptureCast in Action
Live Rich Media Experience
Your web audience will be able to access live CaptureCast presentations via a state of the art rich media presentation player with video, audio and presentation aid components that can be easily configured to focus on different aspects of the presentations. Fit To Screen mode lets viewers read even the most detailed slides, and with Full Screen mode users can achieve truly cinematic experience. Picture-in-picture layout allows users to bring the most important content to the front while checking the less important one into the background.
The built-in text chat component allows forwarding questions to presenters and having public and private conversations among participants, creating an incredibly engaging and social media experience.
The Desire2Learn Capture Portal has no theoretical limits on the number of participants that can access the live CaptureCast™ session at the same time. The webcast administrator, however, can specify a limited number of "seats" in a virtual class room. Of course, the interactive features can be turned off and the live experience can be as simple as a traditional television.
Access, Search, and Comment on Demand
One of the major differences between web-based meeting software and the Desire2Learn Capture Portal is an ability to build an excellent library of recorded events. The system's built-in Optical Character Recognition (OCR) tool together with our powerful search allow not only locating the right presentation in the repository but also finding the point in the talk where the keyword is found. In addition to the search feature users can navigate the presentation via the built-in interactive Table of Contents with slide thumbnails. User comments that refer to a particular point on the timeline will automatically turn into links allowing viewers to navigate to a referred point, with the click of a mouse.
Along with the slides, Closed Captioning support helps viewers with disabilities access presentations. Desire2Learn CaptureCast presentations can be sent by email as a link, embedded into a third party website, CMS, LMS or a blog, as well as multiple social networks including Facebook and Twitter. There are various ways to limit the access to presentations via a simple password protection, authentication or integration with third party LDAP or e-commerce systems.
Visit the CaptureCast Library page to see some example of on-demand presentations in action or contact us to schedule a live CaptureCast session demo using the Desire2Learn Capture Portal.
Intuitive Post-Production Right in the Browser Window
To achieve a highly polished experience, administrators can open published presentations using the web-based tool called Producer that is built into Desire2Learn Capture Portal. Producer allows trimming of the video, replacing the slides and working with the slides timing, adding chapters tags and search keywords manually or extracting keywords from slides using an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) tools. It is also possible to alter certain slides by uploading and converting a custom PowerPoint presentation file. Producer also allows for the upload of a full presentation transcript in SubRip subtitle format.
Automation
If rich media capture is required in more than one room, controlling the stations manually becomes expensive and logistically complex. The Desire2Learn Capture Portal allows for the creation of a remote execution schedule and the subsequent monitoring of Capture Stations from anywhere using any Web browser. One operator can control the entire campus or large corporate rich media capture from home, office or even on the go.
Virtualization
Large and medium sized organizations, schools and A/V shops can serve rich media content to different departments, campuses or individual customers by providing a separate Portal website with its own live event schedule, archive repository and user groups. No additional Portal software instances are required. Desire2Learn Capture Portal supports full virtualization providing unlimited number of portals at no extra cost.
Localization
Desire2Learn Capture Portal supports multiple languages. You can run multilingual communities assigning languages to individual virtual instances of the server software.
Custom Look and Feel
Administrators can modify the look of the Capture Portal right in the browser. Customization may include uploading a banner bitmap, changing colors, fonts, adding documents and main menu items.
