Case Study: West Virginia University achieves improved medical student grades with TechSmith's Camtasia Relay

West Virginia University uses Camtasia Relay to record lectures

West Virginia University’s Health Sciences Center adopted TechSmith’s Camtasia Relay to meet strong student demand for lecture capture across its three campuses serving medical, nursing, pharmacy and dentistry programs. The HSC needed a scalable, easy-to-use system that let more than 500 faculty record and share lectures without placing a heavy burden on IT, while giving roughly 5,000 students flexible, on‑demand access to course content.

Deployed enterprise‑wide (purchased in 2009), Camtasia Relay now records more than 20 hours of lectures daily across 60 courses and 48 rooms, including regional campuses and lecturers abroad. A 2011 student survey found 93% said recorded lectures helped them earn better grades, 86% use recordings as a primary study resource, 95% use them to prepare for class, and 99% would recommend recorded content—delivering measurable learning benefits with minimal IT overhead.

West Virgina University

Eric Coffman

Manager of Application Development, West Virginia University HSC