BoilerCast

What is it?
For students who want a little extra from their lectures, BoilerCast delivers classroom audio and screen captured recordings in many courses on campus. With new enhancements, made possible by the use of Echo360 and iTunesU, instructors can BoilerCast audio and screen captured recordings of their lectures as well as post supplemental course content. The visual and audio enhancements may be used as preparation for homework assignments, labs, and exam reviews. BoilerCast is a service available to all credit courses held on the West Lafayette campus and is capable of recording lectures from all technology enabled classrooms (TIC sites).

Instructors can request BoilerCast at any time during the semester. Recordings will be scheduled based on this request. There is no need to worry about recording a class or positing it to the class website. These services are included in the BoilerCast package.

How will it enhance learning in my classroom?
BoilerCast is intended to be a supplement to teaching. Listening to BoilerCasts will not replace reading or attending class but may:

• Assist auditory learners and non-native speakers
• Provide additional channel for material review: repeated listening and repetition of audio and video content
• Convenience of portable digital content and reduced dependence on physical materials

Where is it available?
Automated BoilerCast service is available at all TIC sites. Some rooms have been equipped with Echo360 appliances which allow for a full rich media capture of the classroom content. Listing of BoilerCast full rich media capture appliance locations.

Instructors teaching in other classrooms can use BoilerCast, but will have to manage their own class content.

How do I get started?
The course instructor or a designated representative may make the request to use BoilerCast in their course. Career account authentication is required to confirm the identity and authority of the requestor.

Once the request form has been received, a confirmation email will be sent to the requestor with information regarding access to the course recordings including links that can be included in the course syllabus.

Students with Disabilities:
If you have been approved for accommodations by the Disability Resource Center (DRC) and need accommodations in order to access a BoilerCast lecture, please contact Janie Fischbach (jfischbach@purdue.edu) in the DRC or Dean Brusnighan (dabrus@purdue.edu) in Information Technology at Purdue (ITaP).

Contact:
If you have questions or problems using BoilerCast, please contact the ITaP Customer Service Center at 494-4000 or by sending email to itap@purdue.edu.