Recorded WebEx Meetings and Integrating those within Lectora

[wrw777]

We have access to WebEx and can record webinars that we conduct through WebEx.

Can I then take that recorded webinar and then for lack of a better term, "wrap" or put it into Lectora so that I can then upload it to our LMS and now track participation, etc?

So basically - can I take a WebEx webinar, edit it through Lectora, and then upload to our LMS?

If this possible? For those more experienced LMS users out there, is this even the way to do it, etc?

Thanks,
Bill

[lrichmtg]

Hi Bill,
I'm not completely familiar with the WebEx output format, but it looks like they require a webEx player to display the content, and I don't have access to a WebEX session to see what the HTML looks like.

In theory, if your browser standard supports it, the easiest way would be to create an iFrame in Lectora which would point to a "sign in" page, or ideally straight to the WebEx "video" file. Often these technologies require a login to their servers (usually for tracking, etc), so I doubt you can access it directly.

If this is the case, insert an External HTML Object with this code: < .IFRAME SRC="https://www.yourwebexlocaton.com/session/id/login/page.html" NAME="webExframe" WIDTH=800 HEIGHT=600></iframe> (remove the . before iFrame and change the SRC location when you use this code)

The more challenging thing would be how you're going to determine if they viewed or completed the seminar. You might read some of their support documentation to see if there are some variables it broadcasts that you can capture or migrate from their servers to the LMS. You might also check to see if there's any "chatter" like a "done playing" indicator that you can grab through Lectora and use to enable a "done" button which you can then program completion On Click to your LMS.

Charles is an amazing freeware application that can help you determine if there's anything you can capture to use to determine if the file is started/complete/etc: Charles Web Debugging Proxy &bull; HTTP Monitor / HTTP Proxy / HTTPS & SSL Proxy / Reverse Proxy

If that's not what you're looking for, or won't work for you, let me know.

Best of luck!
Lisa

[wrw777]

Lisa-

Thank you for your response. I appreciate it.

Bill

[goodald]

You can also use the webex editor (program used to edit recoreded webex sessions/wrf files) and export it to a WMV file. You should be able to request or download this from webex's site. If your editor software does not have an export option in the drop down menus, you need a more recent version of editor.

WMVs are much more client friendly (for windows machines anyway because they play in windows media player). Might even be able to turn it into a flash movie to make it better supported cross platforms.

Just throwing out a bonus option

[wrw777]

Goodald -

Thanks for the suggestion - I will definitely look into that with WebEx - thanks again.

Bill

[irenejo]

We used to "wrap" WebEx recordings in Lectora and post them on our LMS all the time. We used the "Launch a program/document" action from a menu. The recording would launch in its own window. The only drawback was learners had to have the WebEx player installed. Because of these issues, if we have a WebEx session that we want to record and put on our LMS we now record it using Camtasia, and wrap that recording in Lectora.