VideoScribe

VideoScribe is proprietary software (*FREE for UBC students and staff via Canvas) available for OSX, Windows, and IOs users for quickly producing high quality engaging videos, no experience or skill required. It comes with a large library of images, and adding and customizing your own content is easy and intuitive. Drop in audio, images, and video and customize their look and feel in addition to their display and animation time with the simple and powerful editor. What’s more, the app will automatically animate images and text you add to your project. When a project is complete it can be published to YouTube or Facebook, exported to PowerPoint, or saved locally.

Features

Royalty-free images
Automatic image and text animation
Download to multiple computers with a single license
Works offline
Save your Scribes in MOV, WMV, or AVI format
*At time of writing (Summer 2017), UBC licensing allows for a one year download that can be renewed by current staff, faculty and students. Update & Download instructions TBA (Sept 2022)

Creating engaging content is an important part of presentation. As a digital technology for multimedia creation VideoScribe cuts down on production time and has the potential to significantly increase video quality, requiring little expertise on the part of its users.

This resource is great to use in a second language classroom such as French Immersion, Core French, etc. It allows for students to creatively engage in language learning.

A students’ perspective including some tips and an example video are available on this blog post on the LT Hub. (Note: download instructions are dated and no longer apply)

VideoScribe is proprietary software. You will first need to download a free trial OR if you are a UBC student, staff or faculty member, you can download it via Canvas (or via the Teacher & Learning tab on the LT Hub)

1. Log in to Canvas
2. Navigate to the “Help” tab in the left hand navigation menu (question mark icon)
3. Select “Software Distribution”
4. Select “VideoScribe”
5. Select “Contact the LT Hub” – at this point, UBC Learning Technologies Hub will verify your eligibility and provide support for you to access and download a license.