Over the years I have heard parents complain that they can't get NetClassroom to work properly.  After telling them to get their kids to help them, I decided to be nice and create some help videos.  I purchased a $25 ear mount microphone and downloaded some free screen video capture software.  The video capture software is called CamStudio.  It is very easy to use and saves your files in a standard video format.  It is also free.  To get CamStudio, go to www.camstudio.org   Our school has a photo sharing website with Smugmug, www.smugmug.com   They allow video to be uploaded and viewed.  If you don't have a photo sharing website, you an probably put them on your own website.  I created a help topic on everything I could think of and then put a Help button on our NetClassroom login page of our website.  Check it out at http://www.landmarkchristianschool.org/netclassroom.html  Click on the red Help button to view the help files or go to the following link:  http://landmarkchristian.smugmug.com/gallery/5456996_s38ps  If you have any questions about this process, shoot me an email.  It was very easy to do.

One of our teachers who is real good at FAWeb made some help videos for FAWeb.  Can't show them to you because they are on our Intranet. 

Response from parents and teachers has been great.

Norm,

This is a great idea!  We have camtasia and also use smugmug ... but it never occurred to me to use these to create parent training videos. Regarding the content -- did you use an actual student record for demonstrating or did you create a "dummy" student record?

 ~Rachel

Norm,

These videos are great and you have a wonderful voice for it too! I don't look forward to explaining the process over and over and these videos definitely do the trick! Great idea!