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Getting Started with Google Classroom: Record Your Lecture Over Slideshows

Screencast-o-matic

Liberal Arts Faculty are using Screencast-o-matic to record and save lectures over their slide presentations.

Here's the How-to video:

https://screencast-o-matic.com/tutorial/welcome-to-screencast-o-matic
 
Just drag the dotted line to encompass your entire screen.   When it starts recording after the countdown, you will be capturing the full-screen presentation.    
Screencast-o-matic allows for the creation of 15 min. videos.

Screencast-o-matic has a free version and a deluxe version.  The deluxe version is $1.65/month ($19.80 per year) and allows you to edit.
This information posted Spring 2020

Tips

Screencast-o-matic is very user friendly.  Powerpoint does have a recording feature, but the creator turns on audio record for each slide and then the viewer has to click on the speaker icon for each slide to listen. Very cumbersome. 
 
The final file of any audio-video is going to be large. They can be compressed or reduced, if necessary. 
 
Compress your files, and Keep the file size small!!
Divide lectures into different videos, "part 1," "part 2," for the topics you arecovering. Upload them to Google Classroom so that it automatically places them in the class Google Drive. It can handle large files.