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lectureStudio [at the TU]

for the presentation and recording of teaching sessions

Digital teaching involves tools for presenting and annotating slides, streaming and recording lectures (including post-production), conducting live polls (quizzes), and text-based chatting. lectureStudio is an all-in-one tool that integrates all of these functions within a single interface. It is being developed as open-source software at TU Darmstadt.

lectureStudio is an alternative to screencast tools such as Camtasia and Panopto . It enables lossless recording of slides and annotations. Recordings can be exported not only as compressed video but also in vector format for playback in a web browser. Videos produced with lectureStudio can, for example, also be made available on the video platform Panopto.

lectureStudio is a cross-platform software available for Windows, Linux and macOS.

Features

  • Presentation using PDF documents and whiteboards
  • Display slides in a dual-screen setup with a digital tablet, PC or laptop and a projector
  • Interactive tools such as pen-based annotations with digital ink
  • Saving of annotated PDF documents
  • Storage-efficient export of recordings in vector format and as compressed video
  • Interactive feedback via quizzes and messages in the web browser
  • Streaming in low-bandwidth networks (currently in development)

Licence

GNU General Public License 3 (GPLv3)

People involved

lectureStudio was created under the guidance of the “Embedded Systems and their Applications” research group (Department of Computer Science) at TU Darmstadt. Since then, it has been continuously developed and, since May 2020, has been supported by the “Real-Time Systems” research group (Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology) under the direction of Prof. Dr. Andy Schürr.

Support materials & guides

For technical support and software assistance, please contact .

Guide and user manual for lectureStudio:

The installation and quick start guide as well as the user manual are available on the official website https://www.lecturestudio.org.

Authors: Prof. Andreas Koch, Prof. Andy Schürr, Alex Andres

This tool is provided by the “Real-Time Systems” research group (Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology) and the “Embedded Systems and their Applications” research group (Department of Computer Science) at TU Darmstadt, and has been checked from a data protection perspective.