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This screencast does a great job of pointing out a complete lack of ‘help’ on the website and asks an important question: does the screencast recording software have a time limit? The short answer is no. The long answer is a bit more complicated, and will involved factors like bandwidth, software stability, free hard drive space, and how critical it would be for you to lose your work. I’ll answer this way: I know of no technical limit on the screencast recording capabilities. However, I, for one, would not use the software to record something I could not afford to lose. We’re not mission critical ready: we’re beta. It works -almost- all the time. How’s that for a honest answer?

For those you who do want help, on the left hand of the website:

If you’ve got questions, we’re only a click away. As for the lack of help? Our focus goes where our clients want it to. There’s a long list of items that we’re working on: help is not on there because no one has asked for it. I will, however, whip up a FAQ.

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Moodle has come up more than a few times for me in the past few weeks, and after investigation I discovered there are many screencasts about Moodle, but apparently not much talk of using screencasts in Moodle. So I installed Moodle and embedding from FreeScreencast.com worked right out of the box: How to embed a screencast from FreeScreencast.com into Moodle.

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