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I love Camtasia! I use it regularly for anything from simple screen recordings to long informational videos. All of the videos on my YouTube Channel were created with Camtasia.
Camtasia is a video editing program, but you can create surprisingly robust interactive mini-courses using its hotspots feature. Whether you want to create professional-looking videos, or dip your toe into the eLearning waters, this is a great program to get started with.
Get Started With Camtasia
First, download the free trial of Camtasia. Many institutions offer Camtasia to their employees – check with your employer. I also recommend giving SnagIt a shot, it’s a great, simple image editing program.
Video Tutorials
Do you have access to LinkedIn Learning? I would work through the Camtasia courses. They have practice files for you to use.
Get Started with Free Graphics
There’s not much in the way of free Camtasia templates out there, but Camtasia is fairly simple to pick up.
I highly recommend Pixabay for stock graphics and videos, all of which are public domain/CC0. Remember to respect copyright when selecting images for your elearning!
Conclusion
Making videos is really fun! It’s a useful skill that allows you do make and ship useful tutorials very quickly, with a low learning curve. You don’t need a special server for plain videos, you can just pop them onto YouTube. However, if you do take advantage of Camtasia’s interactive features, you DO have to load the published files onto a server or into an LMS. To do this, follow my guide on Sharing Your eLearning Courses.