Opivv
FREE FOR TEACHERS & CLASSROOMS

A screen recorder for teachers that just sends a link

Record a lesson, mark up a student’s work, or answer the question you get every year, then paste one link into Classroom. It runs on school Chromebooks, students need no account, and your video is never watermarked.

  • Free forever
  • No credit card
  • Works on Chrome, Edge, Brave & other Chromium browsers
Opivv recording a web page: the recording toolbar, the camera bubble and the card that says the video is ready
In three steps

How it works

1

Add Opivv to Chrome

One click from the Chrome Web Store. Pin it so the record button sits in your toolbar.

2

Pick what to record

This tab, a window, your whole screen or just an area. Turn your camera and mic on or off.

3

Stop and share

The link is copied the second you stop. Paste it into Slack, email or a ticket.

Works on school ChromebooksOpivv is a Chrome extension, so it runs on the Chromebooks your school already has. No desktop installer, no admin approval for software, no Linux container.
Students just click a linkShare one watch-in-browser link. Students press play, with no account, no app, and no download, on a Chromebook, a phone, or a home laptop.
Your face, on your lessonAdd a camera bubble and your microphone so a recorded explanation still feels like you talking to the class, not a silent slideshow.
Record the slides or the whole screenCapture a single tab (your slides, a reading, a site), one app window, or your entire screen. Tab recording keeps everything else out of frame.
Answer once, reuse every yearRecord the explanation you repeat every term once, keep the link, and send it again next year. Re-recording takes minutes when something changes.
Private until you shareRecordings land in your private library and stay there until you send the link. On Pro you can password-protect a link or set it to expire.

Free vs Pro at a glance

FreePro, $5 a month
Price$0, free forever$5/mo or $48/yr
Recording lengthUp to 5 minutesUp to 2 hours
Number of videosUnlimited (200 MB storage)Unlimited (20 GB)
Watermark in your videoNeverNever
Captions & transcriptsNot includedAI transcripts + summaries
Password-protected linksNot includedIncluded

Your recording is never watermarked into the video. On the free plan, share pages carry a small removable 'Made with Opivv' badge; Pro removes it.

Made for the way teaching actually works

Most classroom recording is not a production. It is “here is how to do question 4”, “here is the feedback on your draft”, or “here is the lesson for anyone who was out today”. Those need to be quick to make and effortless to open, which means one link rather than a file in Drive with permissions to fix.

Because Opivv uploads as you stop, the link is on your clipboard before you have switched back to Google Classroom.

Switching from Screencastify?

Screencastify’s free plan now caps you at 10 videos and 10-minute clips and watermarks them, and upgrading only removes the watermark from new recordings. If you relied on its in-video quizzes and polls, that is genuinely purpose-built and worth keeping. If you mostly recorded lessons and sent them out, Opivv covers that with clean video, no video cap, and AI transcripts at $5/month.

Compare Screencastify alternatives →

Frequently asked

Yes. Opivv is free forever for clips up to 5 minutes at 720p with unlimited share links and no credit card, which covers most classroom explanations and feedback. Pro ($5/month) raises the limit to 2 hours and adds AI transcripts.

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Start recording in about a minute

Add Opivv to your browser, hit record, and share a link the moment you stop. Free forever for everyday clips.