Stop sending your students to external websites. Instead have them record audio/video within Google while OTTo automatically saves and shares those files within their own Google Drive™.
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UPDATED 2026 INTERFACE!!!
No PII (personally identifiable information) collected except for personal subscription.  District domain level purchases are authenticated at the domain level and is COPPA and FIRPA compliant with no student data collected!

Simple Audio/Video Recorder allows you and your students the ability to record audio and video directly within the add-on's sidebar for Google Docs™, Google Slides™ and Google Sheets™.  When a recording is made the add-on automatically saves the recording in the user's Google Drive™ in a folder titled "Ott-o-matic Recordings!".  

Once recorded, files can then be easily inserted into a presentation using the “Insert” menu, or the urls for the stored file can be added to links in any Google™ product or external resource.

Simple Audio/Video Recorder includes limited recording length for all users without a license/subscription. This product includes a 3-day full access trial!

Note: Installation may require approval by your Admin.  If installation fails, contact your IT department.   

Google Docs™, Google Slides™, Google Sheets™ and Google Drive™ are a trademark of Google LLC
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Simple Audio/Video Recorder will need access to your Google account
This will allow Simple Audio/Video Recorder to :
View and manage documents that this application has been installed in
See, edit, create, and delete only the specific Google Drive files you use with this app
View and manage the Google Slides presentations that this application is installed in
View and manage spreadsheets that this application has been installed in
Display and run third-party web content in prompts and sidebars inside Google applications
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See your primary Google Account email address
See your personal info, including any personal info you've made publicly available
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Miranda Jacot
June 1, 2025
How to open this? How do you get this to start? In my google slide after selecting this in extension, it just gives me the "help" option. I couldn't get this to open.
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Mariam Catania
January 10, 2024
So easy to use and not collecting student data! Win all the way around:)
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Lynnette Henderson
September 6, 2022
This was SO helpful in the beginning. Now I can only record 5 seconds. I am not sure what happened to limit the recordings, but I would love for it to go back to allowing longer.
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Danny Maas
June 28, 2021
I used the audio recording and it works like a charm! I love that it saves to one's own Google Drive instead of on other servers!
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Tiffany Smith
May 4, 2022
This is the most helpful tool I have used to add audio! It has some glitches, but gets the job done!
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Liana Foni
July 1, 2021
did not show up on my apps
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Nicole Avery
March 26, 2021
Hate it, wont work. spent a half hour i could of spent on my assignment. same with trying upload the voice clip. Thanks for wasting time i do not have.
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