Great software for the money...

Screencast is a digital recording of computer screen output, also known as a video screen capture, often containing audio narration. There's a free version.

Saves recordings to WMV only and no webcam recording. You have to buy pro account to really get the features and benefits of software.

I use it mostly to record any procedures or even any task that I want others to get done. I show them step by step on what to do so that there is no room for misunderstandings and everyone is on the same page.

It is so simple to use. Just download the extension and viola! Whenever you need to record your screen with voice-over just click on the extension, choose your preferences, click record select which tab or screen (if you have multiple screens like I do) and wait for the countdown. And yes, you are able to choose how long you want the countdown to be. Once you hit zero you can start speaking and showing others whatever you want. This is great for tutorials and how-to videos. Once done you just click on the extension button again and select the "stop recording" option and it gets saved automatically to your google drive if you are online and when you are offline it will just save it to your computer. And that is it! I love using it for when I need to explain how I use whatever new software my company is trying to adopt and it helps me record the process so that I don't need to repeat myself when teaching others how to use the new software. I simply record my procedure and send the google drive link to everyone and they can view it wherever they are and whenever they please, repeating it, pausing it and downloading it like any other video. It doesn't take much space and it is very easy to understand on the first go. I recommend it widely.

You have to use it with chrome only. There is a limit to the length of the videos and you can only record a certain number of videos a month unless if you pay of course. The free version also adds a watermark to the videos but its small and in the corner and you hardly ever notice it.

Screencastify is costly and is not as user friendly as other similar products.

Screencastify is easy to use to create videos and to edit the beginning and end of videos.

Screencastify is not as easy to use to edit the middle sections of videos.

I love being able to create flipped lessons for my students and staff with this tool and that it simply saves them to my Google Drive for easy access. This allows me to create lessons around common issues so that students can go back and watch them whenever they need to. This frees me up to spend more time conferencing with other students.

The best feature is that Screencastify is a Google extension that can record right from your web browser and then save directly to your Google Drive. This is great because it is very simple to share it out or give someone access to this recording. I also like that you are able to screen share as well as add your own image/picture in picture to this. This is great when you are creating flipped videos and lesson for students. Everything is pretty simple to use and quick.

One big hiccup is the fact that it only saves to a specified file type to your Google Drive. This is a problem if you want to upload this file to another program, or download and send as an attachment. I was able to find that there is a Google Drive add-on that is able to read video files and convert as needed. Also- under the free version you are limited to any editing tools, as well as time limit. I don't usually go over 10 minutes so this is fine, but you'll need the premium if you want longer videos.

As a teacher who makes many instructional videos, I have found Screencastify to be invaluable. It takes a lot of the stress out of making screencasts

Screencastify takes the guesswork out of making a screencast. With simple, easy-to-use controls you can make a screencast in 3 clicks. The toolset and editor also allow users to make screencasts that range from simply recording the screen to on-screen annotations and text. It is a lightweight but powerful tool.

The biggest issue I have experienced is stopping the video and accessing the tools can slow down the video. There are shortcut keys but they require hitting multiple keys. The flow of the video can sometimes be affected by switching tools or stopping the recording. If you use the mouse to stop the video and do not want that on the end you must manually remove it. It would be helpful if the shortcut keys were simpler.

Screencastify is a great, free screen recording program for people looking to get started with making videos.

Screencastify is simple and intuitive to use. If you are looking to make short screen sharing or presentation videos, it is a great tool. The video quality is high and the integrated browser add-on makes it easy to record quickly.

The price of pro features, at an organizational level, is a little pricey. Also, only allowing 5 minute video recordings in the free version seems a little short. All you are promoting is users making multiple 5 minute videos as opposed to one long one - still the same end game. Let the user have unlimited recording length and just brand the video for free users.

This is an extremely useful tool as a Client Success Manager because it provides the perfect solution when an email would take to long and the issue or solution would not be as easy to describe over a phone call.

The Screencastify plug-in makes it very easy to quickly record my sceen and download it into a sharable video.

I have nothing negative to say about this tool

Great value, great tool. Makes communicating to remote team much easier on both ends.

Recording screencasts has made our internal communications and collaboration much more effective. Game changer for a remote team.

Hard to say anything bad. Maybe the processing times when uploaded to Google Drive (not sure if that is actually Google issue?) could be faster.

We use Screencastify for our training videos. This makes onboarding new users easier as they have a easy to watch reference that they can refer back to. It also makes it easy to record a new video for when a new proceedure develops. It can be recorded once and sent out to everyone in the company for review.

Screencastify is really easy to set up and start making high-quality training videos. Since its a chrome extension it can work on any major OS including Windows, Mac, and Crome OS. You can record offline and easily store your videos via Google Drive or on youtube.com.

Screencastify does not have an option to embed custom watermark at this time.

I use Screencastify to teach students how to navigate features online when we are not in class together. I also use it to film lessons ahead of time.

I like that Screencastify can be added as a Chrome extension for Google Users. The film can automatically be downloaded into my drive. I like how you can share your screen and share your face.

The product is user friendly but difficult for children to use at times for filming classes. It also can be hard to tell when you are filming and if it has stopped recording. I wish you could change the size of the webcam video, like split the screen to share

This one tool provides more opportunities than almost any other for onsite and distance learning. It's easy to learn, easy to install the extension on Google Chrome, and offers integration with Google Classroom and the ability to export to YouTube. Great all-around video tool

My school district provides the upgraded version of Screencastify and it has been the best tech tool for teaching during Covid. It allows teachers to show students how to navigate a webpage, allows them to record with their face in the video or not, and offers so much flexibility for sharing information with kids. The editing tools are easy to use, and the options for exporting the videos are robust. This is an easy tool to use with so many possibilities.

I wish my blooper recordings could go away easier--I always feel guilty having the recording process and then putting it in the trash can!

I have been using Screencastify for four years now. I love how it continues to update and add new features that teachers find useful. The video editor has been one of my favorite additions that I use regularly.

As a K-12 Instructional Technologist in Anderson One, I rely on and use Screencastify on a regular basis. I use Screencastify to record how-to tutorials for my teachers, administrators, and even parents and students in our district. Screencastify is very easy to use. I love the ability to edit my video and upload to YouTube all within Screencastify.

I would love the ability to record my screen and have the option to also have my webcam showing me in the bottom of the screen. We have seen this option in Loom and would like it added to Screencastify as well.

I liked the ability use keyboard shortcuts and to do screenshots or videos. The mark up features were useful as well to point things out to clients we send shots to.

I found that my library would get fill rather quickly and that many times we would have to remove old shots in order to take an share new ones. Sometimes when that happens the old videos we had shared were cut off and no longer visible.

I started using Screencastify several years ago to record video guides for my clients and courses after hearing about it online. I immediately liked its simplicity and continue to use it today and recommend it to anyone looking for a quick and easy tool to make screen recorders. Before Screencastify I had never made a screen recorder and I was very happy with it.

Incredibly simple, just press a button to start recording the screen, record as long as you need and press another button to end the recording. Time a few minutes and the video is uploaded to the Drive and ready to be shared with whomever you want

Video editing tools have never been very quick and easy to use.

In a round-up, our team has been able to get training and share presentations remotely with Screencastify with convenience.

The remarkable thing is, this application can be added on the chrome browser through its extension and easily share live screen among team members for training and presentation purposes.

Unfortunately, the extension of this brilliant app is limited to the Chrome browser only and is not available for popular browsers like Mozilla Firefox.

This is one of the most helpful and useful tools you can add to your computer. It has allowed us to create and share recordings with ease.

No cons, this program is easy to use and does a great job.

I have used this a bit, and its been great. However, with a free premium version for educators, it would be hard to choose this over that.

Screencastify is a great product. Very easy to use. Has a great extension. It is an easy way to reach out to students via screen recordings.

When COVID happened we scrambled to start putting things into place. Loom became free for educators and students for life! Side by side they are identical, but Loom is FREE, which is a game changer in school districts.

During remote learning, Screencastify has been wonderful. The company really has taken care of Educators by providing free Unlimited memberships to teachers during the academic school year, enabling me to create longer videos and access more editing features. Many video recording services allow you to trim videos - cutting off beginning and ends - but this program allows me to trim from anywhere in the video, crop the video to focus on the most important parts, and also to add multiple videos together into a continuous stream. I have loved using it daily to record videos and lessons for my students, and plan to use it when I return to the regular classroom as well.

This program is easy to use, allows for video editing (trimming, cropping, adding text), and the videos are high quality.

The free version, understandably, has less features and limits video recording times. I would also love to see more editing tools.

As an extension, it's always available and obvious in the upper right-hand corner of my screen so I never forget that it's there. It couldn't be easier, even for digital novices (like I was at one time).

I love being able to target instruction and directions by creating screen videos I can share with my students. I can differentiate depending on what students need. It's even good to show parents how to use certain tools we use at school. Plus, this can be used to give students a "double-dose" of instruction when they are at home or even provide instruction when I can't be at school.

I honestly haven't found anything that I haven't liked so far. It's just so easy to use. I guess if I had to nitpick, one has to upgrade for anything more than a 5-minute video, but that hasn't really bothered me.

I am happy using Screencastify, especially during distance learning and during weather related school closures. It makes recording lessons easy and sharing links with families is simple.

I like the various features to record a tab, whole desktop, or use the web cam. This allows me to vary lessons for students so that it's not constantly a recorded google slide presentation, but can feature me talking, or other tabs as needed. I also like how easy it is to navigate, especially as someone who has never used software like this before.

The audio can be staticky and broken up at times, even with changing the input. It is not terrible, but at times, audio tends to cut out.

I am in love with the ease and accessibility of the program. As long as the need exists to train, support and communicate virtually with staff and our community, this program will remain in constant use.

Screencastify is ready at your fingertips for on-the-spot tutorials and screen capturing. It is the right-hand man to my weekly video creation and editing arsenal! Screencastify is ready to download and save in multiple formats and locations (your google drive, on your hard drive etc...)

Video splicing or editing within screencastify is unnecessarily cumbersome. It is best to capture your video and edit it elsewhere.

We have used this software for many screen related trainings, recordings, and tutorial creations. It works will, but has noted conflicts with other software that need to be addressed.

Has all the features one would expect with a screen recording application. The overall user interface is easy to use and understand.

There is nothing special about this application. The one issue I would say is a con is that this software crashes our remote conferencing software is used in conjunction. So the primary reason many of our users use this product, recording virtual meetings, is impossible.

Screencastify is a wonderful choice for recording lessons and read alouds for teachers. I was able to easily record myself teaching a lesson or reading a book and then insert the link into Google Classroom for my students to view.

It was so easy to download and to use. I love that the icon stays on the toolbar and that it truly is a one-click tool. I also liked that I could send/save the recording in multiple formats.

I would love to see filter options for the face and background choices for those that do not like to be on camera.

Prior to the price increase, I really enjoyed using Screencastify. It was easy to use and easy to edit.

Screencastify was easy to use and easy to share!

I am no longer using it because the price increased significantly. I was paying $20 a year before it jumped to $84 a year. I was paying out of my pocket to use it with teachers. I can no longer do that. I realize they have a free version, but I make too many videos a year for that. It would be great if they had a discounted version for teachers.