Recording a PowerPoint Using Microsoft
Teams
by Jean Schwab, Director of Peer Assisted Learning at Furman University
1. Overview
First, some advice: record the first two or three slides as a practice round before you make your
full recording. Then, watch your practice recording. You want to be sure that your video and
audio are both working before you spend time recording the entire presentation, only to find
out at the end that you don't have any sound or you recorded a blank screen. This will save you
quite a bit of frustration.
Here is what your final video will look like: the PowerPoint slide up top and then a small, inset
video of you speaking as you present.
2. Getting Ready
Make sure that your PowerPoint is already open and ready to play.
Use Google Chrome or the Teams app on your computer. If you use a browser, then Chrome is
the best browser to use for the best functionality.
àTo open Teams in Chrome: Go to MyFurman. Then open your Office 365 email. Click on the
menu button in the upper left corner. Then choose Teams.
Once Teams loads, click on Calendar.
The Calendar will have a Meet Now button in the upper right. Web browsers, such as Safari,
may not include the Meet Now button if video chat is not supported.
Click Meet Now and then click Join Now to start the meeting. (This will create a video chat
meeting where you are the only participant.)
3. Recording
Once you're in the meeting, click Share to share your screen.
Choose the PowerPoint you want to show.
Once your PowerPoint is displayed, click the "More Actions" button and choose Start
Recording.
To stop recording, click on the More Actions button with three dots on it [
×××
] and choose Stop
Recording.
Click confirm.
Click on the Hang Up button to end the call.
4. Downloading Your Recording
Once the meeting is over, the recording will be processed. You will get an email to your Furman
email account when the video is ready.
You can also open Teams and click on More Added Apps. Choose Stream.
Click on “Microsoft Stream” to the right.
Click on My Content then videos to see your videos.
Click on the More Actions button with three dots [
×××
] to download the video or to share a link
to it via email.
Once it's downloaded to your computer, you can upload it to Box or follow other instructions
from your professor.
