How to record and upload live-streamed sessions to Swivl Teams

Swivl Live is a feature that enables you to minimize the Teams by Swivl app, open a 3rd party app, and continue to use Swivl tracking and Marker audio, but it does not record video through the Teams by Swivl App.

• With the Pro Swivl Teams account, you can enable integration with Zoom. In this case, all your Zoom Cloud recording will be uploaded to Swivl Teams Web as well. For more information, please check the following article:  Zoom Integration with Swivl

  If you record live-streaming sessions to the Zoom Cloud without Swivl Teams-Zoom integration enabled, you will have to manually download videos from the Zoom Cloud and upload them to your Swivl Teams.

  To record live streaming sessions with Zoom and have them in your Swivl Teams account, please follow the instructions below:

  1. Set up your Swivl Robot and the mobile device for live-streaming. (Check possible live-streaming setups here.)

  2. Click on the Zoom icon in the Teams by Swivl app and start a session on your laptop/PC/mobile device.

  3. On the device which host the session, click on the Record button to start the recording.

  4. With Licensed Zoom account, you will have two options: Record to Computer or Record to the Cloud. Please select the latter one.

  

  If you use your mobile device with Zoom iOS or Zoom Android app and have Licensed Zoom account, you will have only one option in the mobile app - Record to the Cloud. 

  

  These recordings won't be saved to your system, but will instead be saved to an online folder. The recording will process and appear under My Recordings on the web after you have ended the meeting.  It is not possible to store the recording locally on an iOS or Android device.

  However, every account can only save a certain amount of cloud recordings before running out of space. For information on how much space your account has, or how to buy more, check out Zoom's page on cloud recording.

  Also here's a Zoom support link for your reference Recording on iOS and Android 

  While recording using Zoom:

  1. If you are screen sharing, that's what is captured (along with a side bar of participants videos), there's no way to change this
  2. If you are not screen sharing, you can control what is captured (Gallery view vs speaker view). You can also force it to capture a single speaker by "spotlighting" it.
  3. Each separate recording will be uploaded as a separate file even if recordings were made during the same Zoom session.

   

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  If you do not have any paid Zoom membership and would like to record while streaming you need to start your Zoom session from a laptop because only the web version of Zoom allows for recording of a session for Zoom free users. Please use The Swivl app will stream your video regardless if you are the person who initiated the Zoom meeting. You can be a general participant and join someone else's Zoom meeting and still live-stream with Swivl.

  We recommend using Integrated Audio setup while recording to computer.

  These recordings will be saved to the local storage of your computer/laptop. If you are not sure where are your recording, please check the following article: Finding and viewing local recordings

  Since such recordings occupy the computer storage space, please make sure you have enough storage available on your computer. As soon as recording is converted, you can upload it to your Swivl Teams and delete the video from your computer to spare its storage.

  While recording using Zoom:

  1. If you are screen sharing, that's what is captured (along with a side bar of participants videos), there's no way to change this
  2. If you are not screen sharing, you can control what is captured (Gallery view vs speaker view). You can also force it to capture a single speaker by "spotlighting" it.

   

• If you record a meeting in MS Teams, the recording happens in the cloud and is saved to Microsoft Stream. To start recording:

  1. Set up your Swivl Robot and the mobile device for live-streaming. (Check possible live-streaming setups here.)

  2. Click on the MS Teams icon in the Teams by Swivl app and start a session on your laptop/PC/mobile device.

  3. Go to the meeting controls and select More options  > Start recording.

  The person who started the recording receives an email from Microsoft Stream when the recording is available. It also shows up in the meeting chat—or in the channel, if you’re meeting in a channel.

  

• Unfortunately, it is impossible to record a Google Meet session in a Traditional or Standalone setup since recording the session is available from Meet only on a computer.

  For more information, please check Google Meet support article: Record a video meeting

  To record a live-streaming session in Integrated Audio setup with Google Meet, please follow the steps described in the Recording a live-streaming session with Teams Web platform section below.

• If you want to record your live-streaming sessions, using Webex recording, please do the following:

  For Traditional and Standalone setups:

  - complete the setup you need following instructions: Traditional Setup or Standalone Setup 

  - click on the record button in Webex app to start the recording. 

  In-app Webex recording is available for paid Webex account. To find out more details, please consult Webex support: https://help.webex.com/contact 

  For Integrated Audio setup:

  - start Webex meeting on your laptop/PC

  - join the meeting from the mobile device connected to Swivl robot and complete all the setup steps described in Integrated Audio setup article

  - click on the record button on Webex on your desktop

  From the teacher's computer, you have the option to move to Stage the Swivl mobile device participant as the primary active speaker. In order to move to stage, you need to click on three small dots at the top right corner of the Swivl mobile device participant and select Move to Stage before start recording the session.

  

  You can find the recordings of your Webex meetings either on Webex website(Licensed users) or saved locally on your computer(Licensed and Free users).

• You can record a live-streaming session on Teams Web platform while streaming in Integrated Audio setup. This way you have your video uploaded directly to your Teams account.

  To do so, please follow the next steps:

  1. Set up Integrated Audio with your Swivl Robot and a mobile device. Start the live-streaming session.
  2. On your computer, open https://cloud.swivl.com/login and log into your Teams account.
  3. From your Library, click on the "Add project" button and select "Record" from the dropdown menu.

     

  4. On the navigation bar, select Screen recording. Next, select the audio channel  - Swivl Integrated Audio/ Swivl Link Audio, and click Share your screen.

     

  5. Select what you would like to share and click Share.  On the next page, click Start Recording. If you would like to record your Google Meet live-streaming session, make sure you have selected the tab with Google Meet session running.

     

     

  6. While recording, you can either pause or stop recording.

     

  7. Finally, when you have finished recording and selected stop, you will have the opportunity to Retake or Upload.  If you choose to upload your video, a pop-up will show you the uploading status, and it will load to the Teams Web platform.

     

     

  When you finish recording, hit "Save" and keep the webpage open until uploading is completed. If you have a large video or slower internet speed, you may need to adjust your computer settings so that the computer does not "go to sleep" before your video has uploaded completely. If you close your window or the computer goes to sleep before the video has been completely recorded, you will lose the recording.

  8. Click Save a Project. You can edit the title of the video, add descriptions and tags.