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Add or edit a channel
Add a new channel To add a new channel to your account, follow the steps below. 1. Log into your account and then click My content in the upper right corner. 2. Click Channels from the menu on the left side of the page. 3. In the upper right corner ...
Add custom branding to an image
You can add logos and icons to images from the Image Details tab of your Hosting account. Just follow the steps below. 1. Log into your account. 2. Click My content at the top of the page. 3. Click Images from the menu on the left side of the content ...
Quickly add sections to a Story
If you creating a new Story using our Stories feature and know you will have many sections of content, you can quickly add multiple sections to your project by following these steps, rather than clicking Add Section over and over. 1. Open the Project ...
Groups: Usage and sharing
If you are part of a Team plan, you can create collections of users called Groups. You can then share content to groups and add and remove users within a group. Create a new group 1. To get started, log into your account and click My Content in the ...
Set up hosting and homepage Solo Premier, Solo Max, and Team Plan subscribers
Premier Hosting Settings Premier Hosting allows subscribers to personalize their viewer's experience. Channels and homepages can be fully customized with your branding. Branding options can include company name, company logos, video player colors, ...
Use a custom domain (CNAME)
Using a custom domain When you have a Solo Premier, Solo Max, Team Premier, Legacy Business or Education Team plan, or are using our Recorder API, you can use Screencast-O-Matic to host your content and configure it as a subdomain (for example, ...
Upload captions
Captions Our app enables you to create and upload captions and add them to your video. These captions are displayed on the screen in real time as the video plays, enabling those who cannot hear or understand the audio to access the content within a ...
Use a Channel Recorder button
What is a Channel Recorder button? Adding a Channel Recorder button enables your audience to launch the recorder and submit their content to your channel. The recorder button launches a version of the screen recorder, that contains a simplified ...
About notes
Notes are timestamped comments that the owner of a video can add for their viewers. Notes are visible to anyone viewing your video and allow viewers to jump to specific sections of your video. Video viewers cannot add notes. Adding Notes 1. To add a ...
Color Contrast for Player Accessibility
Color Contrast: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 define how to make content more accessible to people with disabilities. According to the WCAG, for contrast conformity at the mid-range level (AA), the visual presentation of text and ...
Find your videos and images on your hosting account
Please note, we do not automatically upload videos to our site. Your hosting account will only contain the videos that you have uploaded. First, verify that you are logged into the account that you have uploaded videos and images to. You can see your ...
Multiple users uploading to one Hosting site
Yes, If you have a Team Plan, you can invite other users to upload to your Premier Hosting site. Users can share their content with other members of the team. Each user will have their own login and password. When users upload content to the Team ...
Hide a video from the Team Plan search results
If you don't want a screencast to show up in the search results for your Team site, you can edit the details for the screencast and choose to restrict where that screencast can be found. These privacy options will restrict your video from being ...
Download a video uploaded to our hosting site
How can I download a video that I've uploaded 1. First, log into your account. Click My content at the top of the page. 2. In the Videos area, hover over the video you want to download and click Details. This opens your video in the video preview ...
Share videos and screenshots published to our hosting site
Sharing content published to our hosting site If you've published videos to our content hosting site you can also share them by going to your list of uploads. Hover your mouse over the video you'd like to share and click Details button. This opens ...