Record Your Screen Into a Lesson (Beta)

Record a Lesson records your screen, with your webcam and microphone if you want, and turns the recording into an Interactive Video, an Assessment, a Passage, or Flashcards. Teach a concept over your slides, walk through a worked example, or narrate a diagram, and the AI builds the resource from what you said and showed.

When to use it

• You want to teach a short lesson on camera and hand students an Interactive Video they can work through at their own pace

• You have a Slides deck or document on screen and want to narrate it into an Assessment or Passage

• You'd rather talk through material than type instructions into a generation form

Before you start

• The feature records the browser tab you choose to share, plus your webcam and microphone if you turn them on

• Recordings can be up to 26 minutes long and up to 500 MB in size

• Chrome will ask for permission to use your camera, microphone, and to share your screen. You'll need to allow these for the feature to work

Step 1: Open Record a Lesson

1. Open the page or tab you want to record (for example, a Google Slides lesson).

2. Click the Wayground icon to open the side panel, or use the Create activity button on the page.

3. Under What would you like to create?, choose Record a Lesson. It's marked with a Beta badge and described as "Record naturally — AI turns it into an interactive lesson."

Step 2: Set up your recording

On the setup screen (Record a Lesson — Setup), choose what to include:

• Camera: turn on to show your webcam as an overlay on the recording

• Microphone: turn on to record your voice

When the camera is on, you'll see "Camera preview is on your tab."

When you're ready, click Start recording.

Step 3: Choose what to share and record

1. Chrome asks which tab, window, or screen to share. Pick the one with your lesson on it and confirm.

2. A short 3-2-1 countdown appears, then recording begins.

3. While you record, Chrome shows a "Sharing this tab to Wayground AI" bar at the top of the page with a Stop sharing button.

The recording controls

A small control bar travels with your webcam bubble while you record. From it you can:

• Pause and resume the recording

• Toggle your microphone

• Toggle your camera

• Delete the recording

• Stop the recording (the red square)

An elapsed-time counter shows how long you've been recording.

Teach your lesson as you normally would: talk through your slides, point things out, work an example. When you're finished, click Stop.

Step 4: Review your recording

After you stop, a notification confirms "Recording saved — click the Wayground icon to review." Open the panel to see the review screen, which shows:

• Your recording's length and file size

• A playable preview so you can check it

• Download to save the recording

• Record again to discard and re-record

Step 5: Turn the recording into a resource

1. On the review screen, under What would you like to create?, pick a format: Assessment, Passage, Flashcards, or Interactive Video.

2. Set your options on the generation form: Subject & Grade, Number of questions, Question Types, DOK Level, and Custom instructions. (These are the same options described in Create Assessments, Flashcards, and Passages From Anywhere)

3. Click Create Questions.

4. The resource streams in and saves to your library.

5. Click View on Wayground to open it for editing, previewing, or assigning.

If you created an Interactive Video, your recording becomes the video and the questions appear at timestamped checkpoints. Students watch your lesson and answer as they go.

What it looks like in real use

In Wayground's full-flow demo, a teacher records themselves teaching a "Digestive System" lesson over their slides, with webcam and mic on. They stop, review the recording, generate an Assessment, and the questions stream into the Wayground editor. From there it can be previewed and launched live, with students joining and answering in real time.

Tips for a good result

• Speak clearly and keep your mic on. The AI builds questions from what you say, so narration matters

• Show what you're talking about. Keeping the relevant slide or content on screen helps the AI tie questions to the material

• Keep it focused. Shorter, well-structured lessons produce tighter resources than long, meandering ones, and you have a 26-minute ceiling to work within

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