Setting up Powtoon Capture in your Organization

Powtoon Capture, the newest addition to the Powtoon Visual Communication Platform, enables you to quickly and easily record your screen, camera, or both. Powtoon Capture is an extension to the Google Chrome Web Browser and allows the user of the extension to create recordings of their screen via webcam/microphone or a combination of both.

Administrators of Google for Enterprise or Education accounts can whitelist, blacklist and

force install the extension on managed devices. For more information, please see the

Managing Extensions in Your Enterprise guide available here.

Powtoon capture is an extension to Powtoon's SaaS online product and as such relies on an

active browser session with Powtoon. Upon startup, the extension checks if an active

session is available and if not directs the user to the login page. Here the user authenticates

using the method set up by the organization's Powtoon administrator.

While recording, a video file is created locally using standard web browser APIs and is

securely uploaded in chunks to a cloud storage bucket using pre-signed URLs issued by

Powtoon's backend. The upload of the chunks starts immediately and on completion of the

recording by the user, Powtoon's backend takes over, concatenates the chunks to a single

video file and makes it available inside the Powtoon system like any other Powtoon video

created on our platform.

The security profile of Powtoon Capture is identical to that of Powtoon's online video creation

product. The videos created using Powtoon Capture are available only to the creator very much like

videos uploaded to Powtoon from the user's computer.

All data transfer over the internet is encrypted using industry standard encryption protocols

and ciphers and video storage is encrypted at rest too.

The extension source code is reviewed by Google Chrome Web Store team to prevent

malicious activity and no remote code is executed inside the extension.